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Rh The codex Cusanus is a parchment of the twelfth century. It is written in two columns and contains many other things besides excerpts from Frontinus. Few of the latter are intact, most of them being contracted or otherwise changed; but this codex contains some excellent notes.

The codex Parisinus is a parchment dating from the end of the tenth or the beginning of the eleventh century. It contains the Strategemata and a breviarium of Eutropius. The order of examples found in the early codices is retained, and the passage ix. 7– xii. 2 (quarum metu illi—sectindum consuetudinem) stands at the end of Book IV., but after the words persecuti aciem in fossas deciderut et in eo modo victi sunt (the concluding words of xii. 2 in our present arrangement, the conclusion of  ix. 7 as it then stood), the copyist wrote duo capitula sunt requirenda.

d is the designation given by Gundermann to all the codices of the second class excluding P. These date mostly from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. The oldest and best among them are Harleianus 2729, Oxoniensis-Lincolniensis 100, Parisinus 5802, Gudianus 16. Here and there these codices show an amendment which is an improvement, but almost xxx