Excerpt from The Journal of Philology, Vol. 18The togata isas good as the frnatroha despite the latter's jewellery and ornaments of the costly alloy known as aes Corin thium. The alteration may'look formidable at first, but every step of it is easy: aesguecom'nth'e passed through eccecer'inthe to hoccem'ntke by mistakes of the commonest sort. I have illus trated the confusion of ae with e and of 6 with 0 on carm. I 12 35, 36, the confusion of gu with c on carm. 11 2 2: it remains only to say that the addition of removal of the aspirate is in mss like ours absolutely negligible, 'and that the'interehange of s and'c is among the earliest of all corruptions, as Ribbeck's Virgil will abundantly prove. It may be added that one of the Blandinian mss (we do not know which) had haec for hoc, which may 'seem to speak in my favour. Perhaps the tuo of two among Holder's mss and the twm of a third, for the tuum of the majority, point to tuom in the archetype.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology 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.