Purser — Cicero's Correspondence during his Proconsulate. 411 



The emendation which is adopted by Boot and C. F. "W. Miiller 

 was made by Mommsen in C. I, L. I^ p. 278 (= I-, p. 186). He 

 reads cos in both places, and alters autem into item. Mommsen says — 

 ' ' Contnrbarat scilicet Metellus imagines et subscriptiones ita, ut ad: 

 elogium P. Africani maioris {cos cens) adiungeret Sarapionis imaginem, 

 ad Sarapionis elogium {cos) imaginem Africani." But how does he 

 suppose that it was known that the statue was a statue of Africanus ? 

 It must have been for reasons quite extraneous to the elogia ; and if 

 that were the case, why did Cicero refer to the elogia at all ? Nor 

 can I see any proof that Metellus put a statue of Serapio on an elogium 

 of Afi'icanus. He found a statue standing on an elogium {cos cens) 

 which he supposed to be that of Serapio, and had a replica of it made 

 and erected under that supposition. 



vi. 1.21. — Caelius libertum ad me misit et litteras accurate 

 seriptas et de pantheris et fa civitatibus. 



That the last clause refers to what Cicero elsewhere calls vectigal 

 aedilicium (Q. Fr. i. 1. 26) is certain from what follows, Cicero 

 regrets that it is not generally known at Rome nullum in mea fro- 

 vincia nummum nisi in aes cdiemim erogari. Quintus also refused to 

 exact money for games. Marcus says {I. c.) Etenim, si unus homo 

 nolilis querittir palam te, quod edixeris ne ad ltbos pectniae decek- 

 NEEENTTK, MS cc siM eripuissc, quanta tandem pecunia penderetur^ 

 si omnium nomine, quicunque Romae iudos facer ent, quod erat iam insti- 

 tutum, erogaretur ? I can think of nothing better than the rather 

 desperate expedient of supposing a Greek word lost, and suggest 

 <de (yv\x.^o\dx%> a civitatihis. We can suppose decernendis omitted, 

 just as the verb is omitted in § 10 multo enim malo hunc a Pontidia 

 quam ilium a Servilia. If Caelius made any such request, it must 

 have been in one of the lost letters : for no such request appears in his 

 extant correspondence. 



vi. 1. 25. — Et heus tu! iamne vos (so Z* : genuarios M.C.) a 

 Caesare per Herodem talenta Attica L extorsistis ? 



Turnebus (Advers. xxiv. 20) suggested Genuae vos, i.e., at Geneva ; 

 for Genua not Genava is the form in which the name of that town 

 occurs in the manuscripts of Caesar, and in the Geographus Eavennas : 

 though it must be confessed that Genava is the best attested form : cf . 

 C. I. L. xii .p. 328. This emendation is approved of by Lambinus. 

 Scant justice has been done it in modern times; but it has been 

 powerfully defended by 0. E. Schmidt (Bhein. Mus. LV. pp. 395-8). 



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