INTRODUCTION
used for the Acta Concilii. Moreover, our Codex of Fronto was revised and annotated by a certain Caecilius. Besides correcting mistakes, and adding various readings from at least two other exemplars,[1] he gives explanatory glosses and occasionally suggests emendations.[2] Further, to our manifest advantage, he used the margins, which are free from the second writing, for setting down numerous words or passages, that struck him, sometimes verbatim, sometimes in an abbreviated or paraphrased form. The writing of the text and the corrections are in uncial letters, the marginal additions in sloping cursive. Caecilius endorsed each separate section of the work except the Epistulae Graecae and (apparently by inadvertence) Ad Verum Imp. i.
Indices were probably prefixed to all the separate books of letters, of which are extant only those to Ad M. Caes. iv., v; Ad Anton. Imp. i.; Ad Plum; Ad Amicos i., ii. They are valuable as supplying the opening words of letters that are lost, but they do not in all cases seem to correspond with the succeeding letters.
From Fronto to Marcus as Caesar there are fifty-six letters or parts of letters, and nine to him as Emperor, besides the four De Eloquentia. From Marcus seventy-one and seven respectively. To Verus as Emperor eight, and six from him, and six to Pius
- ↑ There are over forty of these variae lectiones.
- ↑ The corrector did not revise the Greek letters, but there is a remarkable gloss at the beginning of Ep. Graec. 1.
