404 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
xiv. 22. Nostodie tabellarios nostros expectamus M; nos tota die, 
&c., H, Hittorp. This latter would lead us to read nos totam diem > 
but can we suppose that Cicero would have been able to calculate 
within a day when the letter-carriers would come ? 
xy. 2.5. Cum egoei gratulatus essem idque me gaudere dixissem 
et tamen adolescentem essem cohortatus ut recordaretur, &c. So H, 
Hittorp., Erf., Pal. Sext. The words in italics are omitted by M. 
This is the passage on which Wunder based his argument against 
Orelli for Erf. being independent of M. Orelli’s splendid defence of a 
hopeless case may be read in his Hist. Crit. Epistolarum Cic. ad Fam. 
sqq. The words fell out ex homoeoteleuto. 
xy. 2. 6. amicosque in patris eius atque aui iudicio probatos 
(probato M). So nearly all the mss., wrongly inserting mm ; for probare 
in aliguo means to be proved by doing or being engaged in something. 
The Mentelianus ms. has not 7. It not improbably took the place 
of et. 
xv. 2. 8. H reads, as do all the mss., Zberaret. Ernesti and 
Wesenberg (Em. Alt. p. 52) are, I think, quite right in altering to 
liberasset. The whole sentence is in past time. 
xv. 4.6. Cumque magnum bellum in Cappadocia concitaretur si 
sacerdos armis se quod facturus putabatur defenderet, adolescens et 
equitatu et peditatu et pecunia paratus, e¢ tofo iis qui nouari aliquid 
uolebant, perfeci, &c., M. The reading of H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext., 
Erf., is e¢ tuto. Victorius wishes to read omnino; and reference to 
Graevius’s edition will show the perplexity of editors. But why not 
adhere to the reading of Y; or vary it slightly by reading et ex tuto? 
The rebellious priest was young, well-supplied, and in a safe position 
for the disaffected to flock to. For tuto = tuto loco: cf. Fam. xu. 2. 3, 
ut in tuto sitis. 
xy. 4.12. Quis enim id non facit H, Erf. (There is no account 
that I can find of Hittorp. or Pal. Sext.) This reading had been 
already adopted by Victorius, and later by Baiter. Quis enim te id 
M'; quis enim de te id M? h; quis enim in te id, Lamb., Orelli, 
Klotz. 
xv. 4. 14. exercitu in bello M'; exercitum inbecillo (M in 
margin); exercitum inbello H Erf. These variants point to exercitu 
imbelli as the right reading. 
xy. 5.2. continentia M; conscientia H, Hittorp., Erf. The read- 
ing of M is right ; for though conscientia means both ‘‘ consciousness ”’ 
and ‘‘ conscience,” it does not mean ‘‘ conscientiousness.”’ 
xv. 7. 1. amantissimum te cognoyi. So H, Hittorp., Erf. ¢e is 
omitted by M. This seems another example of Y adding smalk 
words to make the sentence plainer. 
