The following abbreviations are used in the apparatus criticus:--
_M_ = the _Codex Mediceus_ 49, 18, written in the year 1389 A.D., and now preserved in the Laurentian Library at Florence. _M_¹ denotes the reading of the first hand, and _M_² that of a reviser.
Δ = the reading of _M_ when supported by that of the _Codex Urbinas 322_, a MS. of the 15th century, preserved in the Vatican Library.
_N_ = the _Codex ex abbatia Florentina_, n. 14 in the Laurentian Library, written in the 14th or 15th century.
_O_ = _Codex_ 1.5.34 in the University Library at Turin, written in the 15th century.
_P_ = No. 8536 of the Latin MSS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, a MS. of the 15th century.
_Ant._ = _Codex Antonianus_, used by Malaspina.
_C_ = the marginal readings in Cratander's edition of 1528, drawn from a MS. which is lost.
_Z_ = the readings of the lost _Codex Tornaesianus_, _Z_ᵇ denoting the reading as preserved by Bosius, and _Z_ˡ that testified to by Lambinus.
_I_ = the editio _Jensoniana princeps_ (Venice, 1470).
_L_ = readings in the text of Lambinus' edition, or conjectures of Lambinus.
_Vict._ = the _editio Petri Victori_ (Venice, 1534-37).
[Sidenote: _Scr. Athenis XVII K. Nov. a. 704_]
Dederam equidem L. Saufeio litteras et dederam ad te unum, quod, cum non esset temporis mihi ad scribendum satis, tamen hominem tibi tam familiarem sine meis litteris ad te venire nolebam; sed, ut philosophi ambulant, has tibi redditum iri putabam prius. Sin iam illas accepisti, scis me Athenas venisse pr. Idus Octobres, e navi egressum in Piraeum tuas ab Acasto nostro litteras accepisse, conturbatum, quod cum febre Romam venisses, bono tamen animo esse coepisse, quod Acastus ea, quae vellem, de allevato corpore tuo nuntiaret, cohorruisse autem me eo[1] quod tuae litterae de legionibus Caesaris adferrent, et egisse tecum, ut videres, ne quid φιλοτιμία eius, quem nosti, nobis noceret, et, de quo iam pridem ad te scripseram, Turranius autem secus tibi Brundisi dixerat (quod ex iis litteris cognovi, quas a Xenone, optimo viro, accepi), cur fratrem provinciae non praefecissem, exposui breviter. Haec fere sunt in illa epistula. Nunc audi reliqua.
[1] me eo _Tyrrell_; me _MSS._; eo _Koch_, _Müller_.
