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Sometimes both the alternative readings make complete contextual sense: for Germania 22.3, Rives used Winterbottom’s reading licentia loci (‘in the licence of the occasion’) even though he admits that most manuscripts have the equally sensible licentia ioci (‘in the licence of jesting’) and relegate Winterbottom’s alternative wording to a marginal note (Rives in Tacitus 1999: 213).