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mistaken alteration owing to a wrong division of words in Y. The 
word should have been grauaretur. 
xm. 42.1. H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext. add familaris after meus. It 
is probably a gloss explaining meus. Cicero would have said familiar is 
meus: cf. Lael. 89. In h familiaris is added above the line. 
xm. 43.1. LL. Egnatii Rufi R. familiarissime utor quo ego uno 
equite et cum consuetudine cottidiama, &c., H. This is a good ex- 
ample of how the order of words gets confused in that ms. 
xm. 53. 1. ut omnibus in rebus ei commodes M ; commodas (H, by 
first hand), commodes (H, by second hand). 
xm. 53. 2. sed non mihi uideor . . . singulas ad te eius causas 
perscribere M. In H is added debere after perscribere, rightly ; for 
uideor mihi means ‘‘1 think’’, not ‘‘I think right”: cf. Fam.tv. 13.5; 
and debere could easily fall out after perseribere. 
xm. 55.2. peto abs te pro nostra necessitudine M; necessitate 
H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext. But M is undoubtedly right.  Wecessitas in 
this sense of ‘‘intimacy’’ appears to be found only in Caesar (apud 
Gellium, 13. 5), and in Cic. Sulla, 2; but the best mss. in the latter 
place give necessitudine. See Mr. Reid’s critical note on the passage. 
xu. 56.1. pro tuis in me summis officus M ; officiis uel beneficiis 
H. This is a case of two variants having crept into the text, as we 
saw at xu. 16. 4, iamdiu pridem. Compare also xi. 63. 1, cum 
plurimis eius beneficiis uel officiis. 
xur. 56. 1. ut ecdici Mylasii Romam mitterentur M; ut ecdici a 
Mylasinis Romam mitterentur H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext. This latter is 
the preferable reading. The form of the adjective is Mylasenus in 
Livy, 38. 39. 8, or Mylasensis, 45. 25. 18. Probably the a fell out 
owing to its similarity in capitals to part of capital M. The ekduxos 
of a town under the Republic and early Empire was an advocate who 
conducted at Rome legal cases in which the town was one of the 
parties. In Trajan’s time he was a regular magistrate in each town, 
who represented the provincial governor and conducted all affairs 
between him and the town. Pliny, Epp. x. 111. See Marquardt, 
Rom. Staatsverwaltung 1. 214, and his references. 
xu. 64. 1. Si te fautore usus erit sicuti profecto et utetur et 
usus est M; utitur et usus est H. This latter makes rather better sense 
than the reading of M; but there is little ms. authority to support it, 
and it would have been less likely than the future to have been 
altered. 
xu. 69. 1. multaque acciderunt in quibus et benevolentiam 
elus erga me experirer M; expertus sum H, Hittorp. The latter read- 
ing is the natural one to expect; but how did the lectio difficilior of 
M arise? The reading of M isright. ‘‘ Many events arose of such a 
nature as to let me experience,” &c. The copyist of Y was probably, 
