94, 10 alia quamquam dignitate propemodum paria] quamquam--paria (32 letters) _om. BF_. _Cetera_ and _paria_, to be sure, offer a mild case of _homoioteleuta_, but not powerful enough to occasion an omission unless the words happened to stand at the ends of lines, as they might well have done in _P_. As the line occurs near the beginning of a letter, we may verify our conjecture by plotting the opening lines. The address, as in _Π_, would occupy a line. Then, allowing for contractions in _rebus_ (18) and _quoque_ (19) and reading _cum_ (Class I) for _quod_ (18), _cetera_ (Class I) for _alia_ (20), we can arrange the 236 letters in 8 lines, with an average of 29.5 letters in a line. 123, 10 sentiebant. interrogati a Nepote praetore quem docuissent, responderunt quem prius: interrogati an tunc gratis adfuisset, responderunt sex milibus] interrogati a Nepote--docuissent responderunt _om. BF_. Here are two good chances for omissions due to similar endings, as _interrogati_ and _responderunt_ are both repeated, but neither chance is taken by _BF_. Instead, a far less striking case (_sentiebant--responderunt_) leads to the omission. The arrangement in _P_ might be SENTIEBANT INTERROGATIANEPOTEPRAETORE (26) QUEMDOCUISSENTRESPONDERUNT (26) QUEMPRIUSINTERROGATIANTUNCGRA (29) TISADFUISSETRESPONDERUNTSEXMI (29) Here the dangerous words INTERROGATI and RESPONDERUNT are in safe places. SENTIEBANT and RESPONDERUNT, ordinarily a safe enough pair, become dangerous by their position at the end of lines; indeed, in the _scriptura continua_ the danger of confusing _homoioteleuta_, unless these stand at the end of lines, is distinctly less than in a script in which the words are divided. Here again, as in 94, 10, we may reckon the lengths of the opening lines of the letter. After the line occupied with the addresses, we have 296 letters, or ten lines with an average of 29.6 letters apiece. We may add two omissions of _F_ in passages now missing altogether in _B_. 69, 28 quod minorem ex liberis duobus amisit sed maiorem] minorem--sed _om._ _F_. Here again an omission is imminent from the similar endings _minorem--maiorem_; that made by _F_ (29 letters and one dot) seems to be that of a line of _P_ where the arrangement would be: QUOD MINOREMEXLIBERISDUOB·AMISITSED MAIOREM There may have been a copy (_P²_) intervening between _P¹_ and _F_, but doubtless neither that nor _P¹_ itself had lines so short as those in _P_; the error of _F_, therefore, may be most naturally ascribed to _P¹_, who omitted a line of _P_. 130, 16 percolui. in summa (cur enim non aperiam tibi vel iudicium meum vel errorem?) primum ego] in summa--primum (59 letters) _om. F_. As there are no _homoioteleuta_ here at all, we surely are concerned with the omission of a line or lines. Perhaps 59 letters would make up a line in _P¹_ or _P²_. Perhaps two lines of _P_ were dropped.