402 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
as we have seen, one who had a little knowledge of Latin, and at 
times did not adhere very closely to what he found in his text. 
xm. 69. 1. At the end of this section H reads: ut intellegeres 
me non uulgare nec ambitiose, just as in M. 
xm. 70. ut intellegant hance commendationem sibi usu magno 
. . . fuisse H; wsu corrected to usue M; usuz h. The dat. of the 
fourth declension often ends in -u, e. g. Parce metu Cytherea, Virg. 
Aen. 1. 257. See also a discussion in Gellius, 4. 16. 5. We find, 
moreover, in Cic. Balb. 24, the three principal mss., Paris, Gemblach, 
and Erfurdt read usu for ws, as does the principal ms., the Vaticanus, 
at Phil. 9. 15. 
xm. 72.1. omnia te esse facturum liberalissime recepisti H, Hit- 
torp. esse is omitted by M. The prevailing use did not insert esse 
after such verbs as spondeo recipio; so that we had better suppose the 
reading of H to have arisen from a double repetition (eé = esse) of the 
é in te. 
xm. 72.2. quibuscumque rebus Caerelliae benefeceris H ; benigne 
feceris M. This latter is the proper Ciceronian expression for ‘‘ doing 
a favour.” Off. 1. § 42, sqq.; Planc. 47, Deiot. 36. benefacere in 
Cicero would, I think, mean to manufacture an article well: cf. Ver. 
Iv. 37, sqq. 
xu. 73. 1. Quodsi Romae te uidissem M; Quodsi Romae fuissem 
te uidissem H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext. The latter is doubtless right. 
Romae was written as nearly always rome, and the copyist went on at 
the wrong e. 
xm. 74. 1. L. Egnatii .. . negotia commendo. Tanta mihi 
cum eo, &c., M. ‘Tanta enim mihi cum eo, &c., H, rightly, I think ; 
for the sentences run so much more smoothly with enim added. But 
it cannot be denied that H sometimes introduces enim where it has no 
right to be, e.g. in xv. 5. 1. H reads Neque enim sum admiratus. 
xm. 76. 1. wterer mea consuetudine M; wetere corrected into 
uterer H. In H thereis a stroke under the first e, and the r at the 
end is written by another hand in other ink. The original reading 
may well have been uterer uetere mea consuetudine. For uetus consue- 
tudo, see Quintil. 1. 6. 43. 
xi. 76.2. ut honoris mei causa guam liberalissime C. Valgium 
Hippianum tractetis H; gwam is omitted by M, owing most likely to 
the copyist having gone on at the wrong a. 
xu. 77. 3. Hune tu s¢ (omitted by H, first hand) mihi restituen- 
dum curaris non possum dicere quam mihi gratum futurum sit M; 
futurum fuerit H. The reading of M is of course right. The sen- 
tence-if not dependent would be in the future—si curaris, gratum erit ; 
the reading of H would be only allowable if the simple sentence had 
been—si curares gratum esset (07 fuisset). 
