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xur. 16. 4. iam pridem M; iam diu pridem H. This latter is two. 
variants run together. Hither iam diu or iam pridem would suit. 
xm. 19. 2. Explorata uero eius incolumitate omnia a te studia 
summo cura peto M; omnia a te summo studio et cura peto (H, Hit- 
torp., Pal. Sext.); omnia a te studio summo cura peto (h). The mss. 
seem to point to studio, not studia. When it got transposed, it was 
attracted by the preceding omnia. The reading of H seems right. 
For studio summo et cura, cf. tv. 8. 8. 
xm. 21. 2. For molestissimis temporibus H reads molestissim 
temporibus, the 7s being added in a different hand and different ink. 
xm. 24.2. gratias M; grates H. Both are good Latin: cf. Plaut. 
Trin. 4. 1. 2, laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo. The reading of 
H would be the more likely of the two to be corrupted ; but as Cicero 
nearly always uses gratias, and as most of the mss. seem to read it, we 
shall do well to retain it. 
xm. 26.1. L. Mescinius ca mecum necessitudine coniunctus est 
quod, &c., M; ea causa et necessitudine mecum coniunctus est H. 
The latter is most probably an addition which arose from dittographia 
of ea; for causa in contraction would be ca: see Chassant Dict. p. 14. 
xm. 27. 4. Ego cum tuo Seruio iucundissime et coniunctissime 
uiuo H; ef is omitted by M. The editors mostly read cucundissimo. 
after Victorius. But Cratander was right in adopting what we now 
find to be the reading of H. 
xu. 28. 8. Illud quod supra scripsi id in meque recipio M. A 
second verb is wanted ; spondeo and promitto were proposed ; but we find 
H and Pal. Sext. reading—Lllud quod supra scripsi id tibi confirmo in 
meque recipio. This has all the appearance of being what Cicero 
wrote. In uncials D and O are very like one another; so the corrup- 
tion in M may be ea honoeoteleuto. 
xr. 28a. 2. Quare tantum a te peto wt gua mea facies M; ut ea 
Jacias (omitting cum) H. But facias is corrected in H from facies. The 
whole reading of H appears to me a piece of emendation by a second 
hand after cwn had somehow dropped out. 
xm. 29. 1. Ab his initiis . . . nostris in te amor profectus M ; 
noster H; rightly. 
xm. 80. 2. siue aberit siue non uenerit in Siciliiam M; siue aderit 
(edd.); siue abierit H, Hittorp., Pal. sext. This latter makes fair 
sense. ‘‘I wish you to consider Manlius a great friend of mine [even 
though he is not present with you], whether he has left Sicily or not 
arrived in it yet. 
xu. 85. 1. Nomen autem Avianii hie secutus est H, Hittorp. ; 
hie is omitted by M. The reading of H is very likely right, for the 
context at once prevents /ic being referred to Caesar. 
xm. 86. 1. dixit nihil esse quod de Mega uereretur M, rightly; 
quod demetrio graucretur H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext. This is plainly a 
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