Lectio difficilior potior (Latin for "the more difficult reading is the stronger") is a main principle of textual criticism. Where different manuscripts...

Lectio brevior potior (Latin for "the shorter reading is stronger") is one of the principles in textual criticism, especially biblical textual criticism...

Greenleaf Whittier commemorating the passage of the 13th Amendment lectio brevior potior The shorter reading is the better A maxim in text criticism. Codified...

Greenleaf Whittier commemorating the passage of the 13th Amendment lectio brevior potior The shorter reading is the better A maxim in text criticism. Codified...

ISBN 978-1-4514-1539-1. Miller, J. David (January 2006). "The Long and Short of Lectio Brevior Potior". The Bible Translator. 57 (1): 11. doi:10.1177/026009350605700102...

was a variant of Bengel's rule, Lectio difficilior potior, "the harder reading is better." Another was Lectio brevior praeferenda, "the shorter reading...