V. The Venice edition of 1471 printed by Vindellinus de Spyra.

There is a copy of this in the Grylls Collection in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. The volume contains a life taken from Plutarch, then the lives of Cornelius Severus which are found in M. Ann. Seneca, Suasor. vir (given by Orelli, £el. Poet. Lat. p- 261, Anthol. Lat. 2. 155), “ Oraque magnanimum...sub umbras,” with the date at the foot a.p. M.cccc.Lxx1. The volume ends with a treatise “de disciplina militari,’ which is found in several of the older editions. [Generally agrees with the edition of Ascensius. Ed.]
V;. By this I denote the ms corrections in the Grylls copy of V which are often of great value.
Z denotes the consensus of all the above mss.
There is a copy of the Bologna edition of 1494, in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, bound up with the edition by Victor Pisanus of the Orator, &c., printed at Venice, in 1492. This copy belonged to R. Laughton, and is the one used by Davies who fre- quently gives its readings. It is noticeable for the reading in 111 63 “et Orbonae ad,” but otherwise generally agrees with V.
{I have printed Mr Swainson’s collations in full for all the mss as far as § 12, but after that only for B and K, giving selected readings of the others, except in doubtful and disputed passages, where all the readings are given. I have also occasionally added authorities for the reading in the Text, where Mr Swainson had only noticed the variants, Ed.]
COLLATIONS OF ENGLISH MSS.
Tritte. M. Tullii Ciceronis de deorum natura liber primus Incipit B. M. Tullii Ciceronis de deorum natura Incipit liber I. K. M. Tullii Ciceronis Arpi- natis oratoris eloquentissimi de natura deorum liber primus incipitI. M. T. C. R. Den. d. liber primus foeliciter incipit L. M. T. Ciceronis de n. d. liber primus M. No title in H or N. Incipit prologus m. t.c. in librum primum den. d.C. M. Tul. Ciceronis in dialogum de n. d. ad Brutum Prefatio R. Marci T. C. den. d. ad M. Brutum liber primus V. Boccaccio in his Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium, Venice, 1472, quotes Cicero de naturis deorum. Cicero himself speaks of this treatise as ‘de natura deorum’ Divin. 1.1.3. (See J. Vahlen, Zeitschrift fir® die dsterreichischen Gymnasien, xxtv. 241, note.)
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