[Footnote 1:  The scribe wrote gentiorem:  a somewhat later
  corrector changed it to genitorem by adding an i above the line
  between n and t and cancelled the i after t.]

  [Footnote 2:  Above the m a somewhat later hand wrote n.  It was
  cancelled by a crude modern hand using lead.]

  [Footnote 3:  u added above the line by the later hand.]

  [Footnote 4:  ex added above the line by the later corrector.]

  [Footnote 5:  cis is added in the margin by the later hand.  The
  original scribe wrote nes | se.]

  [Footnote 6:  c is added above the line by the later hand.]

  [Footnote 7:  e added above the line.]

  {fol. 52v}

.EPISTULARUM.

FACTUM MEUM COMPROUASSE UIDEAN
TUR MAGNI TAMEN AESTIMO SCIRE QUID
SENTIAS TU NAM CUIUS INTEGRA RE CON
SILIUM EXQUIRERE O^{P}TASSEM[1] HUIUS ETIA_M_
PERACTA IUDICI{.A}UM[2] NOSSE MIRE CONCU 5
PISCO CUM PUBLICUM OPUS MEA PECU
NIA INCHOATURUS IN TUSCOS EXCUCURIS_{SE_M_ AC}
_{CEPTO UT PR} COMMEATU[3] LEGATI PROVINCIAE
   {above COMMEATU:  AEFECTUS AERARI}
BAETICAE QUESTURI DE PROCONSULATU{.S}[4]
CAECILII CLASSICI ADVOCATUM ME A SE 10
NATU PETIERUNT COLLEGAE OPTIMI MEIQ_UE_
AMANTISSIMI DE COMMUNIS OFFICII NE
CESSITATIB_US_ PRAELOCUTI EXCUSARE
ME ET EXIMERE TEMPTARUNT FACTUM
{.T}{.U}{.M}[5] EST SENATUS CONSULTUM PERQUAM 15
HONORIFICUM UT DARE^{R}[6] PROVINCIALIB_US_
PATRONUS SI AB IPSO ME IMPETRASSENT
LEGATI RURSUS INDUCTI ITERUM ME IA_M_
PRAESENTEM ADUOCATUM POST^{U}LAUE[7]
RUNT INPLORANTES FIDEM MEAM 20
QUAM ESSENT CONTRA MASSAM BAE
BIUM EXPERTI ADLEGANTES PATRO^{C}INII[8]
FOEDUS SECUTA EST SENATUS CLARIS
SIMA ADSENSIO QUAE SOLET DECRETA
PRAECURRERE TUM EGO DESINO IN 25
QUAM P. C. PUTARE ME IUSTAS EXCUSA
TIONIS CAUSAS ADTULISSE PLACUIT ET

  [Footnote 1:  p added above the line by the scribe.]

  [Footnote 2:  The superfluous a is cancelled by means of a dot
  above the letter.]

[Footnote 3:  The scribe originally wrote excucuris | sem commeatu, omitting accepto ut praefectus aerari.  Noticing his error, he erased sem and wrote it at the end of the preceding line, and added the omitted words over the erasure and the word commeatu.]

  [Footnote 4:  The dot over s indicates deletion.]

  [Footnote 5:  tum:  error due to diplography.  The correction is made
  by means of dots and crossing out.]

  [Footnote 6:  r added by the scribe.]

  [Footnote 7:  u added apparently by a contemporary hand.]

  [Footnote 8:  c added above the line, apparently by a contemporary
  hand.]