I, 16, 3. [Of the tribunal set up to try Clodius in 61] pauci tamen boni inerant, quos reiectione fugare ille non potuerat, qui maesti inter sui dissimiles et maerentes sede-bant et contagione turpitudinis uehementer permouebantur.

maesti seems to refer rather to the sorrow shown by the looks and general aspect, maerentes to sorrow expressed in words’ (Tyrrell–Purser). But there is no real evidence for such a distinction. Madvig proposed mirantes in place of maerentes. uerentes, ‘ashamed’ to be in such company, may be worth considering.

II, 2, 2. Πελληναίων in manibus tenebam et hercule magnum aceruum Dicaearchi mihi ante pedes exstruxeram. o magnum hominem, et unde multo plura didiceris quam de Procilio! Κορινθίων et Ἀθηναίων puto me Romae habere, mihi credes lege te haec doceo mirabilis uir est.

The last sentence is obelized by Wesenberg, Müller, Purser, and Sjögren. MS. variants worth mention are: in the first hand of M, credas of G (first hand) bs, and the absence of te in Ο and the Δ group.

Two of many conjectures appear in modern texts. Tyrrell–Purser and Winstedt follow Boot: mihi crede, si leges haec, dices ‘mirabilis uir est’. Constans and Constans' parrot, Moricca, have mihi credas, lege; te haec doceo: mirabilis uir est.