Valerius Maximus: Memorable Deeds and Sayings

family did not flow from this one. Next, a second writer used the epitome of Paris to emend the codex; from its writing, he changed many passages, partly in the context of the words, and partly ascribed different readings to the margin, to which almost always some note was added, either I. P., i.e., Iulius Paris, or br., i.e., epitomizer original: "breuiator", or u., i.e., old original: "uetus"; cf. Kempf. p. 79. The same writer also added the chapter on surnames from Paris, which, since the tenth book of Valerius had been lost, for some reason or other adhered to the nine surviving ones. He described part of it at the end of the final folio of the Bernese, and part on attached slips, on which he had also described the epitome of the chapters of the first book, which are now missing in all the codices of Valerius because one quaternion of the archetype, as it seems, was lost. But today, only two of these slips survive, and a third is mostly torn to pieces, in which only a few words of Paris are preserved. The codex of the epitome which the Bernese emendator used was very similar to the Vatican, yet not the same, as is apparent from a few discrepant readings which we have added, marked with a B, to the example of Paris. Moreover, that this writer was different from the one who supplied some lines omitted by the primary scribe in the margin, and that he was later, is clear from the style of writing, and from the fact that in one of these additions 1, 1, 4, in the name P. Cloelius Siculus, the original writing was erased and in its place the name Siculus was written in the erasure from Paris. Besides these emending hands, a third, corrupting one is detected in the Bernese—but that one is also ancient—which introduced many wrong or interpolated readings from inferior books, but in such a way that in not a few places what the first hand had written can still be discerned. In other places, however, the writing of the first hand has perished entirely, since the three writers who devoted effort to emending or corrupting our codex, although they used books of quite different value, nevertheless agreed among themselves in one thing. For led by some sense of elegance, I know not what