Subject: Re: "in ras"

From: "Kevin W. Woodruff" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 18:44:01 -0400 (EDT)

I believe that "in ras" is an abbreviation for something to do with
"erasure" literally "scraped" In Tacitus it carries the meaning "to erase"
from the verb _rado_

At 10:57 AM 8/29/96 PDT, you wrote:
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>Could anyone tell me what "in ras" means in a MS collation?
>I could not dig anything appropriate out of my latin dictionary,
>but context and etymological atmosphere suggest something about erasures.
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