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altered, inasmucli as it is plainly impossible to extract sense wittont 

 gross violation of the rules of syntax. The reading which Halm 

 calls '' palmarem emendationem," communicated to him by Fleckeis- 

 sen, seems to me too much like a re- writing of Tacitus : i.e., Sed 

 deos testes mutuce reconciliatimiis adhibens, &c. / and the other read- 

 ings are disposed of summarily by Orelli and others. The variant 

 reading, which some of the MSS. are reported to have, kostes and 

 concUiationes is scarcely worth attention, as is and es are said to be 

 constantly interchanged in MSS., partly owing to the unsettled 

 orthography of many of the plurals of substantives, &c. It has 

 occurred to me that the alteration of metueret into metu esset, with a 

 comma after conciliationis, would make excellent sense, while the 

 change of metueret into metu, esset is almost the slightest possible, if 

 we consider how this tense is formed, (Key's Lat. Gr., sec. 483.) 

 Thus we should have Ifec Otlio quasi ignosceret sed, ne hostis m,etu- 

 esset conciliationis, adhibens statim inter intimos amicos hahuit. The 

 mistake, as I think, of those who would read m,etuvi . . adhiheret, 

 kc, has been in supposing that adhibens was necessarily to be 

 separated from the words which immediately follow. Adhibere is 

 frequently used in the sense of " admit or invite to one's counsels ;" 

 " to employ." 



I would translate then, " Nor did Otho treat him as though he 

 were pardoning him but, tliat he might not be an enemy through 

 mistrust of reconciliation, immediately employing him, he enrolled 

 him among his intimate friends." Hostis, " public enemy," as 

 Church & Brodribb remark, is a term not improperly applied to the 

 enemy of the emperor. 



Demosthenes de Corona, sec. 292. -/.ai irq ttj -poaipiatt twv xotvaiv 

 iv T(S rajv b^ayrtwv /xipst rsra^ffac. Here izpoaipiaet. raJv xotvaJv is 

 generally taken to mean ryj TtoXiriia, and translated "public policy." 

 The context, however, would seem, in my opinion, to requii-e that 

 its ordinary meaning should be given to the word -/.oivaJv, i.e., "shared 

 in common." Demosthenes charges -^schines with rejoicing at the 

 siiccess and grieving at the reverses, not of his own citizens but of 

 the enemy. He says then that ^schines, by his view of what are 

 common interests {i.e., affect him equally with others) is arrayed 

 among the party of the enemy. " Sympathies " would, in my 

 opinion, be a better rendering of this phrase, in the present instance^ 

 than " public policy." . 



