Excerpt from The Journal of Philology, Vol. 12

§ 2 mallem audire Cottam dum, qua eloquentia falsos deos sustulit, eadem veros inducat.

This is the general reading of the MSS., except that A, with one or two inferior codices, has malem; but, as A has also nolent for nollent in § 7 the variation is unimportant. Heindorf followed by Muller reads malim. I retain the old text, and take the sentence to be equivalent to mallem audire eundem inducen-tem qui sustulerat, translating 'for my part I should have preferred to hear that same Cotta using the eloquence with which he abolished the false gods, to bring in the true.' For audire dum ef. Suet. Dom. 4 auditus est dum ab eo quaerit, and ray note on N. D. I. 58 videor audisse cum. For the discrepancy of tenses we have such parallels as Fin. I. 25 si concederetur, etiam si ad corpus nihil referatur, ista per se esse jucunda, N. D. III. 10 primum fuit, cum caelum suspexissemus, statim nos tn-tellegere esse aliquod numen quo haec regantur.

§ 5 non...opinio...cum saeclis...inveterare potuisset. So almost all the MSS. Edd. read with two inferior MSS. inveterari.

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