Texts
The text of the work, preserved in a single badly written and mutilated manuscript (discovered by Beatus Rhenanus in 1515 in Murbach Abbey in Alsace and now lost), is very corrupt.
- Editio princeps, 1520
- early editions by
- Justus Lipsius
- J. Gruter
- Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder
- Pieter Burman the Elder
- modern editions
- Ruhnken and Frotscher (1830–39)
- J. C. Orelli (1835)
- F Kritz (1840
- ed. mm. 1848)
- Friedrich Gottlob Haase (1858)
- Karl Felix Halm (1876)
- R. Ellis (1898) (reviewed by William Warde Fowler in Classical Review, May 1899)
On the sources see
- F. Burmeister, "De Fontibus Vellei Paterculi," in Berliner Studien für classische Philologie (1894), xv. English translation by J. S. Watson in Bohn's Classical Library.
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