Purser—On a London MS. of Cicero’s Letters. 395 
letters of a word; cf. Wesenberg, Em. Alt. p. 30, on 1x. 20. 2. I think 
the editors are right. 
xr. 28.2. exstingui M; extinguere H. The passive after studeo 
is quite allowable, though much rarer than the active. But the active 
is, I think, right. Hxtingué might easily get altered into extingwi, and 
the stroke is less likely to have been added than omitted. 
xu. 1. 1. pecuniae maximae deseribuntur H; discribuntur M—the 
latter rightly. The sums of money were distributed to different per- 
sons. Such is the force of dis-. 
xm. 2.1. nisi ut ¢ter me ueterani incitentur M; contrah; im H. 
The latter is right, and read by all editors. 
xm. 2.3. Ego tuis neque desum neque deero ; quisiue ad me referent 
mea tibi tamen in beniuolentia fidesque praestabitur M; qui si quae ad 
me referent mea tibi beniuolentia fidesque praestabitur H. The latier 
makes excellent sense, and saves us from having, with the editors, to 
supply another clause, siwe non referent. Rithl (Rhein. Mus. xxx. 
p. 29) considers the passage most important, and that H gives the true 
reading if we only change quae to quidem. There seems, however, no 
great necessity to do so; in fact referre generally takes an object: 
‘and if they shall make any applications or references to me,” &c. 
The difficulty to me is how tamen arose, which appears in nearly all 
the mss. It certainly points to scwe being the true reading. However, 
perhaps tamen was not the original word, but twm. Written in full it 
got mistaken for tam, and im arose from dittographia. As twm appears 
in cursive writing, it hardly differs from tbc (Chassant Dict., p. 95) ; 
so that it may thus have fallen out in H. 
xir. 3. 1. quod contra uim sine ui fieri possit. So M, rightly. 
But H has a curious reading. At first it had sex (Madvig, Opusc. 
Acad. 11. 278, note, has some examples of this kind of corruption). 
However, the same hand has corrected it. In xy. 4. 8 all the mss. read 
eastellaque sex capta where Madvig rightly alters to wz. 
xu. 4.2. Fama nuntiabat te esse in Syria M; te isse in Syriam 
H, Hitt. This latter is right, and had been already read by Klotz 
and Baiter. 
xu. 5.1. quid ages M; quid ageres H, edd., rightly. 
xm. 11. 2. quantum est M; quantum est in te H. The latter 
rightly. The copyist of M went on at the wrong ¢, as est was probably 
written E. ; 
xu. 12.3. Nam Bassus misere noluit mihi legionem tradere M ; 
miser noluit H. The latter appears to me to be correct: misere is used 
_ (very frequently in the comedians) for the idea of the pain of too 
strong emotion (misere amare, misere deperire, &c.), but can hardly 
be applied to such a negative conception as unwillingness. 
heremus 
xm. 13. 1. dum seruis eremus M; dum seruis haberemus H, 
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