Purser—On a London MS. of Cicero's Letters. 375: 
nostri. Nisi, &c. 149. 9, gloria. Neque, &e. 150. 9, risurum. 
Seribam, &c. 151.17, uenire non possum. Ego non, &c. And so on 
throughout the book. It sometimes has notes of interrogation, though 
often very inaccurately placed. The divisions of words are frequently 
quite worthless, e.g. 159. 18, est uocatus - de situsis dictator, for 
est uocari desitus, &c. 
The omissions are, on the whole, few. Not mentioning single 
words where they are, as generally, small ones, the omissions that are 
of any importance are the following :—(They are in most cases due to 
corruptio ex homoeoteleuto. When this is the case, I have added the 
word that caused the omission. The words enclosed in brackets are 
the ones omitted :)—154. 32, 88, periculo [aliquo .... argumento ]; 
157, the whole of rx. 18°; 167. 31, sis [es autem adeptus amplissi- 
mos|; 180. 12, facultatibus [quas habemus]; 181. 8, Africanus 
[exercitus]; 185. 1, [equitatus et]; 186. 22-4 [ quod... contrarium 
fuit|; 187. 17, [fecerat]; 40, retinuissem [si uno loco habuissem | ; 
189. 12, [reliquisse]; 192. 38, [a consule]; 195. 5, [legionem ] ; 
198. 28, quod neque [Planci. . . . arbitrabantur neque]; 210 6, 
referent [siue non referent]; 210. 30, [reliquiarum nihil fuisset]; 
210. 35, [legatis nihil]; 218. 380, Romanis [omnibus]; 225. 6. 
hoe est [animi hoc est]; 227. 15, [Quod ... . rogo]; 229. 30, 
[lictores]; 231. 12, [homo minime]; 232. 24, [civibus]; 234. 20, 
honestissimi [mihique coniunctissimi]; 235. 4, nec [honorum nec]; 
244. 26, litteras [pondus habituras]; 245. 15, Aemil[i Aviani |ani ; 
250. 2-5, [Cicero Acilio . . . . interfui]; 250, 21-23, [eum expe- 
iasseeeemetatum ert]; 265. 27, fet |... = fietil|; 266. 195 con- 
Sequemun [ism eadem .% . . proicies||; 266. 30, [D. a. d..... 
Thessalonica]; 272. 23, tuto posse [per Dolabellam . . . . posse 
273. 25, ipse [opinione]; 281. 12, in habendis [aut non nae 
? 
? 
283. 41-2, publice [propterea . . . . publice]; 287. 16, [et uictores 
. uellent|; 290. 9, putet [scis .... putet]; 292. 17, [nihil 
. ualere |. 
There are a few examples of what look like variants, both of 
which have crept into the text, e.g. :—256. 1, officiis uel benefictis ; 
258. 9, beneficiis uel officiis; 286. 22, gloria uel uictoria. There is 
one example of an explanation given of a Greek word: 299. 30, 
i regula 
‘envy 
We have already made allusion to the close connexion of the 
Erfurdt, Palatinus Sextus, and Hittorpianus mss., which all belong 
to one family, as Wunder has told us (Var. Lect. xciv.) Now we 
have discovered considerable agreement with this family in several of 
the works which make up the Harleian volume; so that we are not at 
8 Probably omitted ex homeoteleuto. The copyist, after writing the heading 
Cicero §. D. L. Papirio Peto, went on at the next letter, which has exactly the 
same heading. 
