Notes on the current edition
Epistulae
1.
inscribitur Haase; scribitur MSS.
2.
adsero Harmon; adopto Hense; adoro LPb.
3.
qui modo Wolters; quomodo MSS.
4.
nobiscum queri Haase; nobis conqueri MSS.
5.
Hense inserts iactura after vitae.
6.
timendum p; anteferendum L; anteferendum timendum Pb; ante (a te Lipsius) verendum Gertz.
7.
es Lipsius; est MSS.
8.
es Gertz; est MSS.
9.
es Gertz; est MSS.
10.
es Gertz; est MSS.
11.
potentioris inferior MSS.; the others read potentioribus.
12.
una Muretus; ultima MSS.
13.
aut in utrumque pLPb; Hense rejects aut.
14.
se Madvig; sed MSS.
15.
Hense adds fastidiam.
16.
aut talis, cuius Disselbeck and Buecheler; aut alicuius (aut cuius) MSS.
17.
est Muretus; sit MSS.
18.
This passage is hopelessly corrupt. The course of the argument requires something like this: For it is just as much to my advantage not to be able to do what I do not want to do, as it is to be able to do whatever gives me pleasure.
19.
debebat Fickert and Madvig; debeat MSS.
20.
ecquis Madvig; hec quis and et quis MSS.
21.
aliquid mali ictus pL; est, found in a few less important MSS., is inserted by Hense.
22.
ad deos Rossbach; at (ad) nos MSS.
23.
After pudebit Thomas and Hense 2 insert te.
24.
luendae Pincianus; levandas or leundas or leuaturas MSS.
25.
festinetur Gronovius; festinatur MSS.
26.
noverat after bene bracketed by Hense, after Gronovius.
27.
nunc non Schweighäuser; nunc pL; non other MSS.
28.
inquit p; inquis LPb.
29.
So the MSS.; otherwise Hense would read spargendum plena manu est.
30.
Lepidi Erasmus (from an unknown MS.); lepidum all known MSS.
31.
imperem and imperim MSS.; imputem Rossbach. Buecheler conjectures nescias, aes cui imperem,
you did not know the man upon whom I am levying for a loan.