Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
People who trust modern indexes will suppose that the name of Sex. Clodius, the disreputable henchman of Publius, comes twice in the Ad Atticum letters, 14. 13. 6 and 14. 13 A. 2. The manuscripts give it as follows:
1 A good deal of this information is already available in Moricca's apparatus—quite enough to reveal the truth, blunders and omissions notwithstanding.
2 Sex. Cloaio, socio iui sanguinis, qui sua lingua etiam sororem tuam a te abalienavit. I am ilia socio tut sanguinis, quae vulgo linguae Latinae nimium securi de nexu gentili interpretati sunt, aliter intellegenda. Socius igitur Publii sanguinis, hoc est sororis, Sextus quod Clodiae lingua favebat quam Publius incestabat. Spurcius tamen latere credo, quod ex eis quae ad Prop. 3. 16. 19 (‘Propertiana’, p. 188) scripseram eruere mihi visus sum.