# M. Fabi Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae liber decimus

## CHAPTER VI.

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§1. vacui nec otium patitur. The reading in the text, which is quite satisfactory, occurs in Harl. 4995, 4950, and Dorv. Bn and Bg give _vacuum otium pat._, and are followed by N Ioan. Harl. 2662 and 11671. For _otium patitur_ b (followed by HFT) gives the remarkable reading _experientium_ (_experientiam_ Burn. 243, Bodl.), which reminds one of the confusion at the opening of ch. v: may the true reading perhaps be _nec ἕξιν parantibus otium patitur_? Jeep suggested _expetit otium_: _nec perire otium patitur_ has also been suggested.

217 §2. desit. After this word there is a considerable space left blank in Bn and Bg, as well as in some later MSS., e.g. Harl. 2662 and 11671. In Harl. 4995 there is no blank, but in the margin the words ‘hic deficit antiquus codex.’

inhaeret ... quod laxatur: a later hand in Vall., Meister, and Krüger. BMN give _inhaeret ... quae laxatur_, which appears in ed. Camp. (and Halm) as _inhaerent ... quae laxantur_.

§4. tandem Madvig, Emend. Liv. p. 61, _tamen_ libri.

§5. redire. I find this reading in Bg Ioan. C Harl. 2662, 4995, 4829, and restore it to the text, in place of _regredi_ (Halm and Meister), which seems to have arisen out of _redi_ HF, and occurs in Harl. 4950, Burn. 243, 244, and Dorv.

§6. domo Harl. 4995: _domū_ B Ioan. MN Sal.

§7. utrimque Bonnell and Meister. The codd. give _utrumque_. Gesner (followed by Halm: cp. i. §131) proposed _utcumque_: Spalding _utique_: Jeep _si tutius utcumque quaerendum est_ (cp. iv. 1. 21), founding on the reading of b _strict_ * * * (_margine adcisa_), which reappears in HFT (_strictius—strutius_).