Conjecture
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A conjecture is the introduction into the text of a reading without a bases in the witnesses available to the person doing the conjecture. One should differentiate between conjectures by scribes (see scribal conjecture) as opposed to conjectures by modern editors (which are done by divinatio, cf. also emendatio).
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