Cortius

Cortius rejects them, and De Brosses accepts them.

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Cortius injudiciously interprets _quod_ in this passage as having

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Gerlach inserted in his text, _More humani ingeni, cupidio difficilia faciundi animum vortit_; which Kritzius, Orelli, and Dietsch, have adopted, and which Cortius acknowledged to be the reading of the generality of the manuscripts, except that they vary as to the last two words, some having

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But the reading of Cortius gives so much better a sense to the passage, that I have thought proper to follow it.

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_ Cortius, Kritzius, and Allen, concur in regarding _expeditis peditibus_ as an ablative of the instrument, i.e. as equivalent to _per expeditos pedites_ and _victos dare_ as nothing more than _vincere.

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Cortius, "if Catiline went the direct road to Faesulae, as is rendered extremely probable by his pretense that he was going to Marseilles, and by the assertion of Cicero, made the day after his departure, that he was on his way to join Manlius, we must certainly read _Arretino_."

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Cortius conjectured _twenty_, as a rounder number, which Kritzius and Dietsch have inserted in their texts.

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Cortius seems to have been right in pronouncing _Laris_ to be an accusative plural.

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Some editions, before that of Cortius, have _quae -- licet vera mecum recognoscas_; which was adopted from a quotation of Servius ad Aen. iv.

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I have deserted Cortius and followed Dietsch, who seems to have settled the passage, on the basis of Havercamp's text, with more judgment than any other commentator.

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