· LIBER · III ·
MODESTIA SERMONIS ET RATIO COM
PULIT AUTEM ME AD HOC CONSILIUM NON
SOLUM CONSENSUS SENATUS QUAMQUAM
HIC MAXIME UERUM ET ALII QUIDEM
5 MINORIS SED TAMEN NUMERI UENI
EBAT IN MENTEM PRIORES NOSTROS
ETIAM SINGULORUM HOSPİTIUM1 INIU
RIAS ACCUSATIONIBUS UOLUNTARIIS EX
SECUTOS QUO DEFORMIUS ARBITRABAR
1. Deletion of i before u is marked by a dot above the letter and a slanting stroke through it.
10 PUBLICI HOSPITII IURA2 NEGLEGERE PRAE
TEREA CUM RECORDARER QUANTA
PRO IISDEM BAETICIS PRIORE ADUOCA
TIONE ETIAM PERICULA SUBISSEM CON
SERVANDUM UETERIS OFFICII MERITUM
15 NOVO VIDEBATUR EST ENIM ITA COM
PARATUM UT ANTIQUIORA BENEFICIA SUB
UERTAS NISI ILLA POSTERIORIBUS CUMU
2. h and i above the line are apparently by the first hand.
LES NAM QUAMLIBET SAEPE OBLIGA(N)3 TI SIQUID4 UNUM NEGES HOC SOLUM
20 MEMINERUNT QUOD NEGATUM EST
DUCEBAR ETIAM QUOD DECESSERAT
CLASSICUS AMOTUMQUE ERAT QUOD
I5N EIUSMODI CAUSIS SOLET ESSE TRIS
3. n (in brackets) is a later addition.
4. The letters uid are plainly retraced by a later hand. The same hand retouched neges h in the same line.
5. i before n added by a later corrector who erased the i which the scribe wrote after quod, in the line above.
ṪİTISSIMUM6 PERICULUM SENATORIS
25 UIDEBAM ERGO ADUOCATIONI MEAE
NON MINOREM GRATIAM QUAM SI
UIUERET ILLE PROPOSITAM INUIDIAM
6. Superfluous ti cancelled by means of dots and oblique stroke.
Uir erat in terra7 7. Added by a Caroline hand of the ninth century.

· EPISTULARUM ·
NULLAM IN SUMMA COMPUTABAM
SI MUNERE HOC TERTIO FUNGERER1 FACILI
OREM MIHI EXCUSATIONEM FORE SI
QUIS INCIDISSET QUEM NON DEBEREM
5 ACCUSARE NAM CUM EST OMNIUM OFFI
CIORUM FINIS ALIQUIS TUM OPTIME
LIBERTATI UENIA OBSEQUIO PRAEPARA
TUR AUDISTI CONSILII MEI MOTUS SUPER
EST ALTERUTRA EX PARTE IUDICIUM TUUM
1. r added above the line by the scribe or by a contemporary hand.
10 IN QUO MIHI AEQUE IUCUINDA2 ERIT SIM
PLICITAS DISSINTIENTIS3 QUAM COMPRO
BANTIS AUCTORITAS UALE
·C̅·PLINIUS MACRO · SUO · SALUTEM
PERGRATUM EST MIHI QUOD TAM DILIGEN
15 TER LIBROS AUONCULI MEI LECTITAS UT
HABERE OMNES UELIS QUAERASQUE QUI
SINT OMNES ḊĖFUNGAR4 INDICIS PARTIBUS
ATQUE ETIAM QUO SINT ORDINE SCRIPTI
NOTUM TIBI FACIAM EST ENIM HAEC
20 QUOQUE STUDIOSIS NON INIUCUNDA COG
NITIO DE IACULATIONE EQUESTRI UNUS ·
HUNC CUM PRAEFECTUS ALAE MILITA
2. i added above the second u by the scribe or by a contemporary hand.
3. The scribe wrote dissitientis. A contemporary hand changed the second i to e and wrote an n above the t.
4. de is cancelled by means of dots above the d and e and oblique strokes drawn through them.
RET· PARI5 INGENIO CURAQUE COMPOSUIT·
DE UITA POMPONI SECUNDI DUO A QUO
25 SINGULARITER AMATUS HOC MEMORIAE
AMICI QUASI DEBITUM MUNUS EXSOL
UIT · BELLORUM GERMANIAE UIGINTI QUIBUS
5. The strokes over the i at the end of this word and at the beginning of the next were added by a corrector who can not be much older than the thirteenth century.

[Part II.]