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For filling the lacuna the following were used by Wirz:

The last two are mutili, but the missing part is supplied by a different hand, at the end in P2 and in its proper place in F. Vaticanus 3864 (F) is useful for a part of the Bella, since it contains a collection of Speeches and Letters from all the works of Sallust. This codex belongs to the ninth or tenth century, and is closely akin to the best manuscripts of the Bella. It also contains the pseudo-Sallustian suasoriae. According to Jordan, this collection of Speeches and Letters was made by a grammarian before the fall of the Roman Empire from a good codex, but with arbitrary changes in order and reading.

For the manuscripts of the Invectives see p. 492, note 1. xxi