074 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
The Lpistolae ad Familiares, 1x-xvt., are all complete with the 
exception of rx. 18, though the index refers to this letter. There 
are indices to all the books except x., x1. It is unfortunate that there 
is no index to xt., as we should wish to know whether it would have 
referred to the mysterious letter x1. 13a, about the unhappy inhabi- 
tants of Parma. There is no appearance of that letter mm the ms. 
The letters of x1r., from 22 to the end, are all run together as in M. 
xm. 29 and xu. 21 are found a second time after x1. 77; also a 
letter to Caelius (11. 14), after xu1. 49. In xv., epistles 9,7, 8 come 
in this order asin M. In xvt., the order is the same as in M. Fol. 
206 (where the third quaternion ends) has 22 lines blank, but no 
break in the text. Fol. 306 (where the fourth quaternion ends) 
was blank, and has been filled up by a set of ingenious and somewhat 
laughable verses in double columns, De sum et non sum, de sum et fui, 
&e. 
The copy of H is, on the whole, pretty accurate—far more so than 
the ms of the first eight books, Harl. 2773. But we find nearly all the 
common kinds of errors which copyists fall into—confusion of ¢ and J, 
zoct for loci; ¢ and t, even patificatio (183. 25); d and t, at and ad; 
wand n; cl and d, demens for clemens (225. 32); wi for ut (220. 22); 
such mistakes as cito for scito, sceleriter for celeriter. 
As regards spelling, it is seldom consistent. Between m and 7 in 
certain words it generally inserts p, e. g. calumpnia, contempnere. 
The compounds of tacere are always, e. g., abicere, obicere. We find 
cottidie (but once cotidianas 225. 83), never gquotidie, generally 
intellego, neglego, optinere, existumo, affrica, amicicia, actenus (though 
often corrected by first hand to hactenus), paulo. We find always 
quicquid, expectatio, incolomitas, beniuolentia, libenter, recuperare, mag- 
nopere, repperire, eufraten; but considerable variation as regards 
docundus and tucundus, optimus and optumus, and all such superlatives. 
Almost always H has /i, his, hisdem for i. &e. It generally has -2s 
in the ace. plu. of words with genit. plu. in -éwm. On the whole, 
it does not show an inclination to assimilation; and this is espe- 
cially the case with compounds of ad-, though find we allaturus 
(180. 81) appetandum (132. 19) ammiratione (195. 11). Generally 
it writes inquid, and sometimes even such forms as reliquid (for 
yeliquit). ‘There is much variation as to the use of the longer or 
shorter forms of such words as auocauertt or auocarit: the longer 
forms are the more frequent. We find Ant. used for all cases, singular 
and plural, of Antonius. It does not run est into the preceding words, 
as M so often does, ¢.g. 165. 29, ratiost M, ratio é H. We sometimes 
find letters below the line, e.g. am ntis (= amantis). Greek words 
are sometimes, but very rarely, “written in Roman characters. 
The Greek characters used by the scribe (who was ignorant of 
Greek) are just like those of the Erf. ms. Dittographia is compara- 
tively rarely found; the corruption ex homocoteleuto pretty frequently. 
The punctuation is decidedly inaccurate, and cannot be relied on at 
all :—e. g. 146. 1, est de coctio. Mihi, &c. 146. 8, sequatur consilii 
