DIPLOMATICS. 467 



Lard, Italian, Gaulic, Franco-Gaulic, Saxon, 

 Anglo-Saxon, i 



K. In the ancient Greek books, they fre- 

 quently terminated the periods of a difcourfe, 



ad of all other divifion, by lines ; and thefe 



ions were called, in Latin, verfus, from 

 vertendo : for which reafon thefc lines are ftill 

 more properly named verfus than line*. At 

 the end of a work, they put down the number 

 of verfes of which it confuted, that the copies 

 might be more eafily collated : and it is in this 

 fenfe we are tc underftand Trebonius, when he 



i that the pandects contain 150000 p<ene 

 verfuum. Thefe codes were like wile vel prob* 

 vel deterioris not<e^ more or lefs pence!, not 

 only with regard to the calligraphy n r be Jty 

 of the i , but to the correction of the 



.ilfo. 



XI. It is likewife necefiary to obferve, in aa* 

 cient codes, \ \ ilicy have been 



ufed in diffe, uries. Thus for example, A. 



C. D. fi ai:u> L'aius Decimus ; Ap. Cn. 



mp. Ar.guftns Impera- 



tor. ' s, that are called not*, are 



are not to be found in the alphabet, but 

 i notwithitanding, fignify certain words. 

 All thefe matters i i lined in a copious 



manner by VofTius, and in the Chronicon Got- 

 viccnfe. Laftly, t!. i divide all the an- 



cient codes into c edicts minus raros* rariorcs* 



cditos 



