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mail . . . nonfecissent. Non fecissent autem'i vii. 1. 4 rogaUis ab ipso. 

 Ab ipso autem (cf. Fam. i. 9. 10). I think the same usage is found 

 here, and that we should read Puero traderc ? an <fratri> ? Fratn 

 autem ? The Tornesianus and Cratander read traderem ; and the m may 

 be a remnant of an. This use of autem is found in Plautus, Amph. 901 

 inimicos semper osa sum optuerier. IVP. Heia autem inimicos ; Pseud. 

 305 metuo credere. PS. Credere autem ? and Terence Eun. 798 Egone 

 non tangam meam"^. CH. Tuam autem. 



vi. 7. 1. — Hortando aut proficies. 



Some addition must be made such as aut <valehis aut> proficies 

 (Brut. 139 : Phil. i. 35) or aut <ages aut> proficies (Div. in Caec. 39). 



vi. 7. 2. — Sed plane volo his magistratibus quorum voluntatem in 

 supplicatione sum expertus. 



Before volo I think <domum> or <Romam> or <ad urbem> has dropped 

 out; most probably the latter: cf. Fam. ii. 17. 1 (written about a fort- 

 night before), Phodum Ciceronum causa puerorum accessiirum puto, neque 

 id tamen certum. Ad urbem volo cum primum venire. 



vi. 8. 5. — Ego nisi Bibulus, qui, dum unus hostis in Syria fuit, 

 pedem porta non plus extulit quam * ^' domo sua,, 

 adniteretur de triumpho, aequo animo essem. 



Schiitz proposed to add before domo the word consul or olim : C. E. 

 W. Miiller in considatu. Mr. Tyrrell suggested dotni. This is some- 

 what cacophonous. Perhaps modo ' some time ago.' Mbdo and domo are 

 often confused in Plautus (see above p. 394). 



