I. 4, Madv. tum for eum (Baiter and Halm’s ed. of 1861, p. 854).  The text is sound; the repetition of pronouns (illum, eum) is quite Ciceronian.  The emphatic ille is often repeated by the unemphatic is, cf. T.D. III. 71, and M.D.F. V. 22.  I may note that the separation of satis from longo by the word eum is quite in Cicero’s style (see my note on 25 quanta id magis).  Some editors stumble (Goerenz miserably) by taking intervallo of distance in space, instead of duration in time, while others wrongly press satis, which only means “tolerably,” to mean “sufficiently.”  The words satis longo intervallo simply = “after a tolerably long halt.”  For the clause ut mos, etc., cf. De Or. II. 13.

Sec.2. Hic pauca primo:  for the omission of locuti, cf. the very similar passages in D.F. I. 14, III. 8, also my note on 14. Atque ea:  Halm brackets ea, quite needlessly, for its insertion is like Cic. Ecquid forte Roma novi:  Roma is the ablative, and some verb like attulisset is omitted. (So Turnebus.) To take it as nom., understanding faciat, is clearly wrong. Percontari:  the spelling percunctari rests on false derivation (Corss.  I. 36). Ecquid ipse novi:  cf. De Or. II. 13.  The MSS. have et si quid, bad Latin altered by Manutius. Istum:  some edd. ipsum, but Cic. often makes a speaker use iste of a person who is present.  Goer. qu. Brut. 125, De Or. II. 228. Velit:  Walker reads velis with St Jerome.  For quod velit = quod quis velit, cf. De Or. I. 30. In manibus:  so often, cf. Cat.  Mai. 38. Idque:  MSS. have in the place of this quod with variants que, quae, qui, quo.  Dav. gave quia, which was the vulgate reading down to Halm, who reads idque, after Christ. Ad hunc enim ipsum:  MSS. have eum for enim (exc.  Halm’s G).  Such a combination of pronouns is vainly defended by Goer.; for expressions like me illum ipsum (Ad Att. II. 1, 11) are not in point.  Of course if quia be read above, eum must be ejected altogether. Quaedam institui:  the De Lingua Latina; see Ad.  Att XIII. 12.

Sec.3. E Libone:  the father-in-law of Sext.  Pompeius; see Caesar B.  Civ. III. 5, 16, 24. Nihil enim eius modi again all MSS. except Halm’s G. have eum for enim.  Christ conj. enim eum; so Baiter. Illud ... requirere:  i.e. the question which follows; cf. requiris in 4. Tecum simul:  Halm’s G om. tecum; but cf. De Or. III. 330. Mandare monumentis—­letteris illustrare:  common phrases in Cic., e.g. D.F. I. 1, T.D. I. 1, De Div.