Epistularum Ad Familiares M. Tullii Ciceronis Libri Sedecim: Notes

   1. All italics, unless otherwise noted, are from the original text source. Some examples are obviously emendations proposed by the editor of the Teubner text. Others, however, appear to have no obvious reason behind their italicization. Various capitalized text has likewise been duplicated from the original source text.

   2. Some letters have gaps missing from them. Where possible, the Loeb Classical Library volumes were consulted, and used to modify the Teubner text in order to present a clearer text. Future plans call for creating a method so that visitors could see all the variations listed in the Teubner for uncertain passages, although when this shall happen is uncertain.

   3. The spelling of the declension of epistola, epistolae, feminine noun, letter, has been changed to its more regularly used modern epistula, epistulae, ... The word obscoenus, obscoena, obscoenum, adj., obscene, has been changed also to obscenus, obscena, obscenum. Finally, the archaic word quum has been changed to the accepted standard, cum.

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