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Solus was lost through haplography ('fulua solus': the elongated 's' form common in manuscripts would have facilitated the error) and tristis interpolated to restore the metre.

—The Last Poems of Ovid

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In paleography and textual criticism: A copyist's mechanical or inadvertent omission of a letter, or of a series of letters or words, repeated in immediate succession in the passage of the original manuscript copied. Errors of this kind were frequently made by ancient copyists, owing to non-separation of words in manuscripts. An example in English would be, if in copying ANDISSEXTTOYOU (‘and is sent to you’), one s should be dropped, so as to read, ‘and I sent to you.’
A reading originating in such an omission. See dittography.

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Solus was lost through haplography ('fulua solus': the elongated 's' form common in manuscripts would have facilitated the error) and tristis interpolated to restore the metre. — The Last Poems of Ovid
Their omission would seem to be obviously due to haplography. — Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).
NVNC (_FIL_) looks like a rewriting of the line, perhaps following the loss of _crimen_ by haplography (_cr_iM _s_im_ilE_). — The Last Poems of Ovid
_Solus_ was lost through haplography ( 'fulua solus': the elongated 's' form common in manuscripts would have facilitated the error) and _tristis_ interpolated to restore the metre. — The Last Poems of Ovid
_Quique quod_ is obviously prone to haplography; on the other hand, it could be a rewriting of _qui quod id es_, which is itself presumably a simple corruption through interchange of _qui quod es id_. — The Last Poems of Ovid

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from Greek ἁπλόος, single, + -γραφία, from γράφειν, write.

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