

Headwords are no longer at the beginning of lines, but remain distinctive in bold (not all: 898 praesidium is sensibly removed as a headword, and included in the explanation of factis florentibus). The notes are now more copious and, to make room, less generously spaced. The introduction itself is for the most part unchanged (updates appear in three notes) but the section on the text has been completely rewritten and the apparatus criticus too has been revised. summarises in a Supplementary Introduction, though with specific focus on Book 3.

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