Purser—On a London MS. of Cicero’s Letters. 405 
xy. 8. ateid quod suesti peto M; consuesti peto H, Hittorp., Pal. 
Sext., Erf. The reading of Y is no doubt right, and was adopted by 
Cratander, followed by Klotz and Baiter. 
xy. 10.1. ut quam honorificentis se senatum consultum .. . faci- 
undum cures M; ut quam honorificentissime, &c., H, Erf., h. ‘This 
latter is right. The editors, including Klotz and Baiter, read honori- 
ficentissimum ; but the latter acknowledges that even M would natu- 
rally lead to honorificentissime. 
xv. 12.2. efficias M; efficiasque H, Pal. Sext. A conjunction is 
badly wanted, Baiter adding e¢; but we shall do better to adopt the 
reading efficiasque, which has mss. authority. 
xy. 14. 8. unus scilicet uni fructus. So M and h; but the latter 
has a stroke drawn through wa. H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext. omit wnz. 
The emendation of Orelli seems to be the most satisfactory, viz. animé 
for unt; unless we follow Y in omitting the word altogether. 
xy. 14. 4. Sed si quae sunt onera tuorum M, sed si qua sunt onera 
tuorum H, h. The form gua is more usual: see Roby, vol. i. § 379. 
xv. 15.1. H omits necessaria, as do most mss. The Amstelo- 
damus and Mentelianus, however, retain it. Indeed it is difficult 
to see how the word can have appeared in M originally unless it 
were in the archetype. It is best, I think, to read non necessarit, 
with Madvig and Wesenberg. 
xv. 16.2, His autem spectris etiamsi oculi possent feriri quod 
uelis ipsa currunt, animus qui possit ego non uideo M; incurrunt H, 
Hittorp., Pal. Sext. The best correction to make is not wel iis of 
Victorius, nor quod quum uelis of Wesenberg (in the archetype cum 
would have been cv), but guod quae uelis. The difficulty to Cicero is 
how, on the Epicurean theory, the mind gets stimulated in the first 
instance. The most common word for objects striking on the eye is 
incurro (Cic. Att. x1r. 21.5; Fam. o. 16. 2; Quintil. x. 3. 16, incur- 
sare Quintil. x. 3. 28; incursio Cic. Fin. 1. 21); and as such is sup- 
ported by Y, it had best be retained. No doubt accurro is also found, 
Cic. De Diy. m. 138 (a very similar passage to our present one), istae 
imagines ita nobis dicto audientes sunt ut simul atque uelimus 
accurrant. 
xy. 19. 3. nam habet damnatos quos pro illo nobis restituat nec 
ipse sectorem desiderabit M; sectatorem H, Hittorp., Pal. Sext. As 
Cassius makes many verbal jokes in this letter (e.g. the two senses of 
bona and of restituat), we might read, perhaps, sectatorem nec sectorem 
desiderabit. This will account for the variants, and will save the 
clause from being somewhat bald. 
xv. 21. 3. H, like most other mss., does not give de uno twice, as 
M does. 
xvi. 1.1. neque nunc muto M; neque enimnune muto H. This 
is an example of H adding one of those small conjunctions out of 
