On the Magistrates of the Roman Republic

XVII. Continuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxviii
XVIII. Minor Abridgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xl
XIX. Four fragments of the book On Omensoriginal: "de Ostentis"; a work regarding portents, celestial phenomena, and divination.. Two of these have been published . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlii
XX. Two other fragments, in Greek, as yet unpublished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xliv
XXI. A single fragment of the book On Magistratesoriginal: "de Magistratibus"; Lydus's history of Roman administration and government offices., and of doubtful origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvii

SECTION IV. THOSE WHO HAVE HITHERTO ATTEMPTED THE PUBLICATION OF THESE FRAGMENTS.

XXII. John Meursius. Jan Rutgers . . . . . . . . xlix
XXIII. Leo Allatius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . li
XXIV. Giuseppe de' Gigli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . liii
XXV. Jean de Burigny. Niels Schow . . . . . . . . liv
XXVI. Both Abridgmentsoriginal: "Epitomæ" of the book On the Monthsoriginal: "de Mensibus" and the second fragment of the book On Omens, published from the transcript of Schow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lvi
XXVII. Conjectures regarding certain passages of this edition . . . lviii

SECTION V. CONCERNING THE CASEOLINIAN MANUSCRIPT, AND THIS EDITION OF THE WORK ON MAGISTRATES.

XXVIII. By what unexpected stroke of luck the Caseolinian Manuscriptoriginal: "Codex Caseolinus"; a famous 10th-century manuscript containing the only complete text of Lydus's "On Magistrates," named after its former owner, Caseolinus. was discovered in Greece, at Constantinople . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxi
XXIX. Why it was not immediately made a matter of public right That is, why it was not published immediately upon discovery. . . . . . . lxiii
XXX. The death of Villoison, to whom the edition of Lydus had been entrusted . . . . . . lviii Typographic error in source; likely intended to be lxiv
XXXI. The book On Magistrates published through the expense and generosity of the illustrious man, Choiseul Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, a French diplomat and scholar who funded the preservation of Greek antiquities. . . . . . . lxv
XXXII. The origin of the Caseolinian Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxix
XXXIII. Description of the Caseolinian Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxi
XXXIV. Concerning the same, and from what sort of manuscript it was derived . . . . . . lxxiii
XXXV. The current condition of the Caseolinian Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . lxxv
XXXVI. A promised edition of the book On Omens from the same manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxvii
Index of authors and works whose passages are either supplemented or called into question within this Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxx