PursER—On a London WS. of Cicero’s Letters. 397 
extent, the stroke over the a@ getting transferred to qué, and it being 
altered to dé. 
xr. 19. 2. Quantum copiarum Klotz; Quid copiarum Baiter; 
copiarum M (omitting the pronoun). But H, Hittorp., and Pal. Sext, 
have probably the true reading, Quid enim copiarum. 
xm. 19. 38. Litteras ad te numquam habui cui darem quin dederim 
M; quin cum dederim H. This latter must be due to dittographia. 
It would not, I think, be good Latin to translate it ‘‘except when I 
did give them.” 
xu. 20. lacessam nec tua ignauia etiam mhz inertiam afferet M. 
The reading of H is the same, except that it has ne for nec, and omits 
mili. Though Schiitz reads ne .. . adferat, still I think it more 
likely that the ¢ of nec would be omitted before #, than that afferat 
would get altered to afferet. I should adhere to the reading of M. 
xm. 22. 1. tyrannoctoni M; tyranni octoni H; tupavvoxrdvor, 
Klotz. These variants serve as an example to show that we have 
better reason to trust M than H. 
xm. 22. 8. senatus aut frequens M, H. The editors read either 
senatus frequens (Graev., Schiitz), or senatus haud infrequens (Klotz, 
Baiter). Why not haud frequens? This was the house to which 
Cicero addressed the third Philippic. But a house that assented to 
Cicero cannot have been large, when we consider the nature of the 
senate at this time, mostly composed of creatures of Caesar and 
Antonius. See some interesting remarks on the constitution of the 
senate at this time in Lange Rom. Alterthiimer, § 165, mr. 519-20. 
xm. 23.1. neque enim quae tu propter magnitudinem et animi et 
ingenii moderate ferstea non ulciscenda sunt M; fers a te non ulcisenda 
sunt H. A combination of these two leads to the true reading fers a 
te ea non ulciscenda sunt, a correction already made by Kayser. 
xu. 24. 3. Ea tibi ego non debeo commendare, sed commendo 
tamen M; ea tibi commendo tamen sed non debeo commendare H, 
Hittorp. The reading of M is right; in Y tamen is out of place unless 
we read, ee Guilielmius, tamenetsi non debeo. 
xu. 25. 3. Fuit enim illud quoddam graecum tempus seruitutis M; 
caecum ae quoddam H, Hittorp. I do not believe Victorius that 
caecum is necessarily a conjecture made by the copyist of the German 
uss. We saw that the archetype was probably written in uncials. 
‘“The dark night of slavery” is a fine expression; and caeca is often 
used in the sense of ‘‘ dark”’ with now, e.g. Lucr. 1. 1115. 
xu. 25.5. defert M; differt H, Hittorp; affert (codd. Terenti1). 
The reading of H is valuable as showing that Cicero probably wrote 
defert, though in so doing he wrongly quoted the passage (Ter. Andr. 
2. 18). 
xr. 25a. 6. defetigati M; defatigati H. There is the utmost 
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