Attic Nights

"asserting that silence was owed to the boy, he beats the mind... he carries [the news] to the matrons, what he had heard; they arrive the next day at the senate; from the desire for obscurity and the hardship of softening and alleviating, they drew their origin; see also I 2, 4 end; 5." Therefore, I have not deemed it my task to report every discrepancy even in this.

The second part of the body of Gellius containing books IX—XX is handed down in several codices, which are easily distinguished into two families. γ The witnesses of the former (γ) are these:

O Codex Reginensis among the Vatican manuscripts 597 (O), 10th century; begins IX 14, 2 from the word "grammaticam."

Π Codex Reginensis among the Vatican manuscripts 1646 (Π), written in the year 1170, as witnessed by the person who annotated the name and year: "Willelmus wrote in the year of the incarnate word 1170."

X Codex Lugduno-Bat. Vossianus lat. F 112 (X), 10th century; it contains books X—XX and inserted among these is book IX, except for 1—2, 10 "of the strongest" and 8, 1 "to be born not"—12, 10 "he says" and 16, 6 "of the one demanding," etc.

To these is added a fourth codex of a later age, the Magliabecchianus 329 (N), 15th century. It was written by the hand of Nicolaus Nicoli, aided in Greek by Ambrosio Traversario. From XX 10, 7 onwards, it alone hands down the words of this and the last chapter with ς. It seems due to that humanist's correcting hand that it is sometimes free of the errors of the others or agrees with the other family, such as X 1, 10; 26, 10; XI 3, 3; 5, 4; 14, 1; XII 1, 20; 5, 7; 13, 20; 21; XIII 5, 4; 6, 8; 2; 10, 3; 11, 3; 26, 4, or stands alone, such as XI 9, 1; 15, 6; XIII 12, 8; 14, 1.

δ The other family (δ) is represented by these books:

Q Codex bibl. nat. Parisin. 8664 (Q), 13th century.

Z Codex Lugduno-Bat. Vossianus lat. F 7 (Z), 14th century.

B Fragments of codex (B) written in the year 1173, a part of which is contained in the codex of the Bern library marked with the number 404, exhibiting Gellius IX—XII 10, 3; the rest...

The reference notes at the bottom are partially illegible due to page damage, citing classical studies by Henry Drisler (1894) and the American Journal of Philology.