dittography

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532 The couplet here given by Hebrew and Greek is too long for the verse, breaks the connection, and is apparently a copyist’s dittography expanded by quotation from ix.

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  1. In paleography and textual criticism:
  2. Mechanical or unconscious repetition of a series of letters or words in copying a manuscript.
  3. A passage or reading so originated. Opposed to haplography (which see).

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  1. from Greek *διττογραφία, *δισσ, σ1ογραφία, a double writing or reading (lection), from *διττογράφος, *δισσ, σ1ογράφος, writing in two ways, from διττός, Attic form of common Greek δισσ, σ1ός, Ionic διξός, double, twofold (from δίχα (διχ-), doubly, from δίς, δι-, double: see di-), + γράφειν, write.
 

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