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Appius. '' I have been received witla unbounded enthusiasm. Accor- 

 dingly Appius has retired to the furthermost part of his province, to 

 avoid being witness of this demonstration in my favour," 



V. 16, 4. — Nos in castra properabamus quae aberant tridui 

 (MS. Udui). 



The reading tridui, which is the brilliant alteration of Schiche 

 (Zu Cicero's Briefwechsel wahrend seiner Statthalterschaft von 

 Cilicien, Berlin Progr. 1897, pp. 3-7), is rightly adopted by 

 C. F, W. Miiller. Schiche says that 16 was written shortly before 

 17, as the similarity of the topics show ; but probably not on the same 

 day, as we should be led to infer from the MS. reading, which, in both 

 letters, states that the camp was two days' journey off (16. 4 : 17. 1). 

 It is unlikely, he justly says, that Cicero would have found two 

 opportunities of despatching letters to Atticus in one day, and in the 

 course of a hurried journey ; and almost incredible that, if he had 

 done so, he would have omitted to notice it in the second of the 

 two letters. Again, the corruption might have easily arisen from the 

 similarity of B and R, 



v. 17. 3. — Cicerones nostros Deiotarus filius, qui rex ab senatu 

 appellatus est, secum in regnum. Dum in aestivis 

 nos essemus, ilium pueris locum esse bellissimum 

 duximus. 



There is a strong temptation, as Mr. Tyrrell and I suggested, to 

 insert <duxit> after regnum. It might have fallen out before dum, and 

 owing to the subsequent duximus. But ellipse of this verb is found 

 elsewhere : cf. Att. vi. 9. 5 quo die, ut soribis, Caesar Placentiam 

 legiones quattuor (sc. ducturus erat): ix. 10. 3 male Tarquinius qui 

 Porsennam qui Octavium Mamilium contra patriam. These passages 

 are quoted by Heidemann (De Cic. in Epp. verborum ellipsis usu, 

 p. 92) : but in another passage which he adduces, xiv. 10. 3 iamne ad 

 centena Cluvianum, though, perhaps, perducatur is to be supplied 

 (cf. xiv. \\. 2 res ad centena perducitur), it is possible to suppose no 

 stronger ellipse than that of sit: cf. Att. v. 20. 5 cum liaec seribeham in 

 tribunali res erat ad HSCC. 



Att. V. 18. 1. — Parthi Euphraten transierunt . . . cunctis fere 

 copiis. . . . Hostis in Cyrrhestica. 



Eam. XV. 1. 2. — A. d. xiii. K. Oct., cum exercitum in Ciliciam 

 ducerem, in finibus Lycaoniae et Cappadociae mihi 

 litterae redditae sunt a Tarcondimoto, . . , Pacorum, 



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