[Footnote 56: See Ribbeck's Virgil, _Prolegomena_, p. 152.]
[Footnote 58: _Epist._ III, i (plate IV).]
It is of some importance to consider what Budaeus might have done to the text of Beroaldus had he treated it to a systematic collation with the Parisinus. Our fragment allows us to test Budaeus; for even if it be not the Parisinus itself, its readings with the help of _B_, _F_, and Aldus show what was in that ancient book. I have enumerated above[60] eleven readings of _{ Pi}BF_ which are called errors by Keil, but of which nine were accepted by Aldus and five by the latest editor, Professor Merrill. In two of these (62, 33 and 64, 3), Budaeus, like Aldus, wisely does not harbor an obvious error of _P_. In two more (62, 16 and 65, 12), Beroaldus already has the reading of _P_. Of the remaining seven, however, all of which Aldus adopted, there is no trace in Budaeus. There are also nineteen cases of obvious error in the { sigma} editions, which Aldus corrected but Budaeus did not touch. I give the complete apparatus[61] for these twenty-six places, as they will illustrate the radical difference between Aldus and Budaeus in their use of the Parisinus.
[Footnote 61: The readings of manuscripts are taken from Merrill, those of the editions from Keil; in the latter case, I use parentheses if the reading is only implied, not stated.]
60, 15 duplicia] _MVDr{ sigma}_ duplicata _{ Pi}BFGpa_
61, 12 confusa adhuc] _MV{ sigma}_ adhuc confusa _{ Pi}BFGpra_
18 milia passuum tria nec] _{ Pi}BFMV_(_p_?)_a_ milia passum tria et nec _D_ mille pastria nec _r_ mille pas. nec _{ sigma}_
62, 6 doctissime] _MV{ sigma}_ et doctissime _r_ doctissima _{ Pi}BFDa_ et doctissima _p_
26 igitur eundem mihi cursum, eundem] _{ Pi}BFD_(_p_?)_a_ igitur et eundem mihi cursum et eundem _r{ sigma}_
63, 2 MAXIMO] _{ Pi}BFDG_(_pr?_)_a_ Valerio Max. _{ sigma}_ Gauio Maximo _Catanaeus_
4 Arrianus Maturus] _{ Pi}BFDra_ arianus maturus _Gp_ Arrianus Maturius _{ sigma}_
9 ardentibus dicere] _{ Pi}BFDG_(_r_?)_a_ dicere ardentius _p{ sigma}_
12 excolendusque] _{ Pi}BFD_(_p_?)_a_ extollendusque _Gr{ sigma}_
15 conferas in eum] _{ Pi}BFD_(_p_?)_a_ in eum conferas _Gr{ sigma}_
17 excipit] _{ Pi}BFD_(_p_?)_a_ accipit _r{ sigma}_
quam si] _{ Pi}BFDG_(_p_?)_a_ quasi si _r_ quasi _Laet._, _Ber._