^{page 56 note 1} To whom I am indebted for much assistance and advice on this paper.

^{page 56 note 2} C.I.L. vi. 1984. 9.

^{page 56 note 3} Eph. epigr. 2. 58.

^{page 56 note 4} For the evidence see Clark, Q. Asconii Pediani Commentarii, pp. v–vi.

^{page 56 note 5} See index to C.I.L. v, especially nos. 2820, 2829, 2848, 2899, 2937.

^{page 56 note 6} Dessau 257.

^{page 56 note 7} See Conway and Johnson, Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy i p. 259 f.

^{page 56 note 8} C.I.L. v. 2921, 2923.

^{page 56 note 9} C.I.L. v. 839, 877.

^{page 56 note 10} See R.-E. (zweite Reihe) 3A. 1. col. 77 ff.

^{page 56 note 11} C.I.L. xiv. 2653.

^{page 57 note 1} The lost ‘liber contra obtrectatores Vergilii’ of Asconius and Sil. Pun. viii. 593–4.

^{page 57 note 2} See Sil. Pun. viii. 406.

^{page 57 note 3} See Rehm, Philologus, Supplbd. xxiv. 2. 97 f.

^{page 57 note 4} R.-E. sup. cit. col. 87 f.

^{page 58 note 1} Epictet. disser. iii. 8. 7.

^{page 58 note 2} Pliny Ep. iii. 7. 1.

^{page 58 note 3} Quoted from the Loeb edition of J. D. Duff.

^{page 58 note 4} Sandys, Latin Epigraphy ² p. 217.