Excerpt from The Annals of Tacitus: With a Commentary

In i. 17, and iii. 54, the Cod. Med. Has ad Hercule in iii. 69, ad Cornelius in iii. 72, ad Pompei -in all these cases 'ad' being the reading for the usual 'at.' Quintilian (instit. Of Orat. I. 7. 5) observes that there had been a distinction observed by many, that 'ad, ' when a preposition, should take the letter d, ' but, when a conjunction, the letter 't.' It is a fair inference, I think, that Quintilian himself disregarded this distinction, and wrote ad or at' indiscriminately. I think, probably, I should have been right in leaving these readings as they are found, but in an edition for general use it may not be Wise to introduce a great number of forms to which the reader has been un accustomed: a principle which will account for my reluctance to follow the ms. Always, in printing, for instance, at quot' (i. 74) for ad quod, ' and such forms as inquid, ' velud, ' &c., , which may nevertheless be correct.

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