inlustri 11, collegae
              14, inbutus 17, impetrassent
    52r, 18, admonebitur 53r, 8, accusationibus
    52v,} 20, inplorantes 15, comparatum
              22, adlegantes 53v, 1, computabam
              24, adsensio 5, accusare
              27, adtulisse 11, comprobantis
    53r, 8, exsecutos 23, composuit

[Sidenote:  Abbreviations]

Very few abbreviated words occur in our twelve pages.  Those that are found are subject to strict rules.  What is true of the twelve pages was doubtless true of the entire manuscript, inasmuch as the sparing use of abbreviations in conformity with certain definite rules is a characteristic of all our oldest manuscripts.[14] The abbreviations found in our fragment may conveniently be grouped as follows: 

[Footnote 14:  That is, manuscripts written before the eighth century.  The number of abbreviations increases considerably during the eighth century.  Previously the only symbols found in calligraphic majuscule manuscripts are the “Nomina Sacra” (deus, dominus, Iesus, Christus, spiritus, sanctus), which constantly occur in Christian literature, and such suspensions as are met with in our fragment.  A familiar exception is the manuscript of Gaius, preserved in the Chapter library of Verona, MS. xv (13).  This is full of abbreviations not found in contemporary manuscripts containing purely literary or religious texts.  Cf.  W. Studemund, Gaii Institutionum Commentarii Quattuor, etc., Leipsic 1874; and F. Steffens, Lateinische Palaeographie{2}, pl. 18 (pl. 8 of the Supplement).  The Oxyrhynchus papyrus of Cicero’s speeches is non-calligraphic and therefore not subject to the rule governing calligraphic products.  The same is true of marginal notes to calligraphic texts.  See W.M.  Lindsay, Notae Latinae, Cambridge 1915, pp. 1-2.]

1.  Suspensions which might occur in any ancient manuscript or inscription, e.g.: 

    B. = BUS
    Q. = QUE[15]
.{-C}. = GAIUS[16]
P. C. = PATRES CONSCRIPTI

  [Footnote 15:  Found only at the end of words in our fragment.  Its
  use in the body of a word is, however, very ancient.]

  [Footnote 16:  The C invariably has the two dots as well as the
  superior horizontal stroke.]

2.  Technical or recurrent terms which occur in the colophons at the end of each book and at the end of letters, as: 

.EXP. = EXPLICIT
.INC. = INCIPIT
 LIB. = LIBER
 VAL. = VALE[17]

  [Footnote 17:  The abbreviation is indicated by a stroke above the
  letters as well as by a dot after them.]

3.  Purely arbitrary suspensions which occur only in the index of addresses preceding each book, suspensions which would never occur in the body of the text, as:  SUETON TRANQUE,[18] UESTRIC SPURINN.