^{page 120 note 1} The Florentine MSS. have not been consulted by the editor, which seems strange. A more serious omission is that he has not used a Vatican MS. (Beg. Suec. 1762), which contains the Excerpts of Hadoardus from a number of Cicero's philosophical works. As this MS., which appears to be an autograph, was written in the ninth century, it must be drawn from a copy coeval with or anterior to GKRV. In the Tusculans the MS. from which he took his Excerpts belonged to the GKRV class and especially resembled GR. Its affinities may be seen from the following minute flaws: 1 § 30 id enim] idem R. Had., § 65 fieret] fierit GR, Had., § 68 cultum] cultam GR, Had.(a variant of GR omitted by Mr. Dougan). Among important readings are 1 § 4 accenduntur, as quoted by Augustin and Servatus Lupus (incenuntur cett.), ib. gloriae with Lupus (gloria cett.), § 18 vecordes ^q excordes Concordes (excordes, vaecordes concordesque cett.) which supports Dr. Reid's proposal to cut out-que. I notice a bold variant 1 § 69, viz. contemplatorem caeli ac dei, utilitatibusque hominis etc. For these Excerpts cf. P. Schwenke's paper in Philologus, Suppl. B. v. 1886.