NOTES & OBSERVATIONS ON

...has been informed. There is an ostentation of erudition in these words in Ammianus Marcellinus, book 28, chapter 1, section 16: "He affirms with countless and confident assertions that it was well known by the Romans." It seems our author wished to mock Heptas a name or reference here likely meaning a group of seven or a specific person in this manner; meaning to show something to someone, to bring forth the Heptas, just as "to test the Heptas" [is used] by L. and below on page 418, "someone meriting? the crime of the Heptas." J.R. The reed-pen? of the Heptas, with which they were accustomed? to write, which he was pressing?. Lucian, book 4, Anacharsis: "With Gallic swords, and the cloak of Amor, more feeble? than merited?, while? [they are] exiles." Scip. Gent.

Eam solam, &c. That one alone, etc.] It might appear that this should be rewritten. But nothing ought to be changed. For there is a Theodosian? similitude? to this writing, in whose works you may often find that diction used. Below: "that which is retained in every part, which is far the most holy, he does not violate." Such a phrase would take nothing away from the meaning. The Greeks write in this way, especially Herodotus and Pausanias, and among the more recent, Agathias, although this is not uncommon? in the Hebrew dialect?. Casaub. Eam solam, &c.] That is, the same?. Scaevola, book on freedmen?, last law, Digest on food and legacies: "Which freedmen of mine, where my body shall have been placed, I wish them to be in that same matter." More on that Hebraism [from] Casaubon. Pric.

Det libellum Let him present the petition] Through a petition, the accusers used to bring forward and denounce crimes. Our author below in Apology II: "Where is that atrocious beginning of your petition, formed in my name by the principal accuser??" Their mention is in Law Maximus, Digest on the Julian Law regarding Adultery, Law of Petitions, on Accusations. Juvenal, Satire 6: "There is hardly any case in which a woman has not stirred up a lawsuit: Manilia accuses, if she is not the defendant. They compose [the suits] themselves, and form the petitions." Ambrose on the death of Emperor Valentinian: "And when after some days the accuser's petition was read, and calumny was pronounced, he frees the accused, until the prefect...

might investigate, he pronounces? him absolved?." In subscriptions?, it is responded? to the accuser?, and? it is proven? that? the defendant has not arrived? except? by that crime?: so that, if he has accused someone falsely, then the subscription does not attain? the reverence of the institution?, and is deservedly affected by the haughtiness?. Concerning which there are many [laws] in our legal code. But regarding our own matter, see our most learned J. Cujacius, Observations, book 9, 28. See below: "is that the atrocious beginning of your petition, formed in my name by the principal [accuser]?" Emend.

Par. 602. Non-nemo, &c. Someone, etc.] But Lupp., Gratianus?, Valentinian?, and Theodosius? the fathers established? that those who have placed some reverence before their names?, the debtor is held by that name and they have decreed. Book 8, chapter on Commemorations?. Cujac.

Piscantur They are fishing] Many talion laws. See Vulm. on Judgments, n. 4, p. 285. Brisson. in the margin.

Quotus est What is his number/How many are they] Many manuscripts of Basil write quitus est. In the manuscript: quot quitus est. So below in Apology: "Chastity alone, when once accepted, cannot be returned." Not otherwise [do] Plautus, Lucretius, Terence, Gellius, and other ancients [write]. Pric. Book 8, Donatus?, book 1, among whom the verses of Attius are to be read thus: "For neither by favor, nor by friendship, nor by [power], nor by prayer, have I been able? [to be moved/to prevail]." Cat. Ne me &c. quitus est He was not able. Thus the Roman Edition. Why would unlearned? men change it? For quitus est is unique. Terence, Hecyra, 4. 53: "—fame could not be born in darkness." Our location [the current text]. Casaub. Thus? as? it is common?. That is not in Flor... Flar?. pervallis? rightly?. Emend. And indeed he was not able. Where as he might entirely work... even?. This is the common reading, not at all sound. For quitus est in the Pithou manuscript, Quotus est exists; in the Lipsius manuscript, putus est. The Aldine, Colv., and Vulc. editions have quitus est: following Junius the younger. But in such a common word, the scribes would not have erred so easily: indeed, this is against the mind...