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I. The poetic diction of Tacitus, and its fabrication in the Annals. II. Florid passages in the Annals. III. Metrical composition of Bracciolini. VI. The language of other Roman writers, Livy, Quintus Curtius and Sallust. VII. The phrase "non modo ... sed", and other anomalous expressions, not Tacitus's. VIII. Words not used by Tacitus, distinctus and codicillus.
XV. 64 Seneca is described as "writing in the codicil of his will" "in codicillis rescripserat." VI. c. 3. It looks then tolerably clear that the author of the Annals got his Latin about "codicillus" in the plural signifying the "codicil to a will" either from the Institutes of Marcian or the Pandects of Justinian. Another very peculiar alliteration of Bracciolini's is with the letter c.
An ancient, speaking of the "volumen," or scroll, would have used "scribere," "exarare," possibly, when speaking of the "codicillus," or little wooden table made of wax, which he sent as a note or billet-doux to a friend or sweetheart, the figurative verb being applicable to the stylus "ploughing" letters "out" of the wax.