Excerpt from Collations From the Harleian Ms. Of Cicero, 2682 The MS. which forms the subject of this volume is one that has played a considerable part in Ciceronian criticism. Its readings have been partially kwn from the citations given by Modius, Gulielmius, and Graevius. The references in the collation are to the pages and lines of Baiter and Halm's Orelli. Agreements with the text as well as divergencies have occasionally been ted, where the MS. is the only or almost the only authority for an accepted reading, or where it has been misrepresented by one of its early collators. This is especially the case in the pro Marcello, pro Ligario, pro Rege Deiotaro, since in these speeches Graevius has mixed up the readings of the two copies contained in the MS., while giving one name to the result. As will be seen from the remarks upon the history of the MS. it has been called by several names. To avoid confusion, I call it throughout H. I have to render my sincere thanks to Mr. E. Maunde Thompson, Librarian of the British Museum, for the minute description of the MS. which he has contributed towards this work, and for much help and advice. Also to Professor Nettleship for his great kindness in reading through my remarks, and for much valuable criticism. Suggestions of his will be found marked with the initials H. N. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.