W. M. Lindsay, An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation

List of terminations commonly confused

-as and -ans, e.g. accuba(n)s, Most. 368.

-bis, -bit and -vis, -vit, e.g. curavit for curabit, Amph. 487.

-eo and -ebo, e.g. habeo for habebo, Merc. 439.

-es and -ens.

-et for -ebat, e.g. subolet for subolebat, Pseud. 421.

-et and -it, e.g. ducet for ducit, Pseud. 788. So -is for -es, e.g. dicis for dices, Pseud. 1323 (see Leo's note on Mil. 664).

-illus and -ulus, e.g. tantulus and tantillus.

-isse and -ivisse, e.g. Amph. 272.

-isti for -ti, e.g. Asin. 746; Trin. 556, 567, 602.

-ite and -e te, e.g. agite and age te; cf. Mil. 1206 (sinite for sine te).

-ito and -e tu, e.g. agito and age tu; cf. Poen. 1278 (facito for face tu).

-m and -nt (see ch. vi. § 1), e.g. possum for possunt, Lucr. i. 104; cumulam for cumulant, Virg. A. xii. 515.

-o for -abo, e.g. spero for sperabo, Mil. 1209.

-o and -ero.

-rent for -rint, e.g. amarent for amarint (amaverint).

-stis and -sti (cf. Asin. 802).

-to and -tu (see -ito above).

-tor and -tur, e.g. datur for dator, Truc. 247.

-us and -is. Both in capitals and uncials, as well as in minuscules, -us when written in ligature closely resembled -is. The same contraction is in early minuscule sometimes used for both. Uncial (and capital) -um, -un are also hardly distinguishable from -im, -in (ch. vi. § 2), e.g. terrarim for terrarum, Amph. 336.