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 On Lucretius. 25 the labours of Marullus, and prove that he did more for Lucretius than appears in the Juntine edition. To give a few specimens, I. 141 the certain correction of sufferre, as well as perferre, is proposed instead of efferre ; to 459 &c. are annexed the words Tempus est secundum Aristotelem mensura motus ; Lachmann's transposition of 434 and 435 is anticipated in this note : Videtur proponere tantum de corpore, dicendo Augmine vel grandi, &c. ; non enim conveniunt ilia nisi corpori...si legatur Nam quodcunque. . . Cui si tactus. . . Augmine vel. . . Corporis. . . putebit sermo. The note prefixed to 1014 shews that the brilliant Marullus in the 15th century had been beforehand with Madvig and Lachmann in detecting the hiatus there : Credit Marullus deesse hie aliqua carmina, quae continerent transitum ab infinitate inanis ad infinitatem corporum ; in his enim Nee mare nee tellus &c. procul dubio agit de infinitate corporum, cum supra de utroque infinito se dicturum promiserit, Nunc age summa audi quaenam sit &c. (953). At 873 are the words: Locus corruptus. At 884 Lachmann's reading is proposed. Sometimes a perverse ingenuity is shewn, as at 98 : Inceste i. e. sine nuptiis, quasi a cesto quod Veneris cingulum est ; at 971, Invalidis is explained by valde validis. Gifanius had with- out doubt access to notes of Marullus which we do not now possess. I may here mention that I purchased some years ago from the London bookseller H. G. Bohn a copy of the edition of Gifanius* Lucretius published at Ley den in 1595, containing a complete collation by Nic. Heinsius of the two Leyden MSS. and the fragmentum Gottorpiense, far more satisfactory than that by the incompetent Havercamp, together with a transcript of Modius* collation of his own MS. The latter is thus described by Heinsius : Variantes lectiones excerptae sunt ex libello edito Paris. An, 1565, quem Fr. Modius cum MS. suo contulit, ut ipse testatur fine libri vi. inquiens : Collatus cum MS. meo 26 Junii 1579, Coloniae. Cujus usuram mihi concesserat Rev. et doctiss. D. Liraeus, Prof, ad quem devenit a Jacobo Grutero, ad hunc a Nansio, ad hunc denique ab ipso Modio. He observes in another place: Codex Modii non est idem cum B. Vossiano; nam p. 8 (i. 227) ubi ex modiano notatum ad lumina vossianus in. This is strange, if true. Heinsius gives numerous conjectures of his own and others, most of them not recorded in his Adversaria nor elsewhere, so far as I know. I may on a future occasion