_F_ alone of the manuscripts collated offers the correct _audisse_ (for
_audire_) at x 17. At xi 21 it and _B_ alone have the correct _mihi_
for _tibi_ (omitted by _C_). At xiv 7 it has the probably correct
_muter_ for _mittar_, also found in _Bodleianus Canon. lat. 1_ and
_Barberinus lat. 26_, both of the thirteenth century. With the exception
of _muter_, these readings could have been recovered by conjecture;
given the separative interpolation at iii 44, _F_ differs surprisingly
little from the other manuscripts.
_H_
The thirteenth-century _Holkhamicus 322_, now _British Library add.
49368_, contains (with _I_) the correct _hanc_ at i 16, the other
manuscripts having _ha_, _ah_ (_B_), or _a_ (_C_). At xvi 30, where I
have printed _leuis_, the reading of most manuscripts, _H_ has _leui_,
the conjecture of Heinsius; Professor R. J. Tarrant informs me that the
same reading is found in _Othob. lat. 1469_. At iv 45 _H_'s _qua libet_
is the manuscript reading closest to Heinsius' correct _quamlibet_; most
manuscripts have _quod licet_.
Most other variants in _H_ are trivial errors, although there seems to
have been deliberate scribal alteration at x 18 (_sucus amarus erat_ for
_lotos amara fuit_), xiv 38 (_Celsius_ for the usual _Septius_; Scaliger
restored _Scepsius_), xvi 3 (_ueniet_ for _uenit et_; presumably the
intermediate step was _uenit_), and perhaps at xiv 31 (_miserabilis_ for
_uitabilis_).
_I_
The thirteenth-century _Laurentianus 36 32_, Lenz's and André's _m_, has
the correct _perstas_ at x 83 for _praestas_; its reading is also found
in _P_ and as a variant of _F2_. At vii 1 it shares with _C_ the reading
_horas_ (=_oras_), which I have printed in preference to the usual
_undas_.
At viii 15 _I_ has the hypercorrect _nil_ for _nihil_, and at xiii 26
_ethereos ... deos_ for _aetherias ... domos_, but in general has few
signs of deliberate alteration.
_L_
_Lipsiensis bibl. ciu. Rep. I 2° 7_, of the thirteenth century, has
_haec_ at ix 103 for the other manuscripts' _et_. _Haec_ restores sense
to the passage, and was the preferred reading of Heinsius; I consider it
a scribal conjecture, now rendered obsolete by Professor R. J. Tarrant's
more elegant _quae_. _L_'s text has clearly been tampered with at xiv 41
(_populum ... uertit in iram_ for _populi ... concitat iram_), but in
general seems to have suffered little from interpolation. It is,
however, of little independent value as a witness to the text.
_T_
_Turonensis 879_, written around the year 1200, was first fully collated
by André for his edition; Lenz had earlier reported its readings for IV
xvi and part of I i. At ix 119 only _T_ and _F2_ of the manuscripts
collated have the correct _laeuus_, although other manuscripts come
close, and the reading could have been recovered by conjecture. At xv 40
_T_ reads _transierit saeuos_ for _transit nostra feros_; clearly
_nostra_ was at some point lost from the text, and metre forcibly
restored.
_P_
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