Lectio difficilior potior, “the difficult reading is stronger.” (It’s more likely that a scribe, copying a text, would make it simpler rather than more complicated, so the more complicated text is probably the more accurate.)
Lectio difficilior potior, “the difficult reading is stronger.” (It’s more likely that a scribe, copying a text, would make it simpler rather than more complicated, so the more complicated text is probably the more accurate.)
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