ABSTRACT
The new consensus comprising both his ex omnia primis (33b instead of his exordia primis) and the following omnia in line 34 has its own curious prehistory: it was to begin with the text proposed by Peerlkamp in 1861, first accepted fully by the commentator Carl Schaper in the seventh edition of Ladewig's commentary in 1882, kept by Deuticke and Jahn (1915) and thereafter sanctioned by Castiglioni (1944) in the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum revising Sabbadini's edition. Peerlkamp's remarkable success was not least due to Ribbeck's independent discovery of EXOMNIA in P, published two years before Peerlkamp's article, but neither at that time nor later adopted in his text.2
