after more than a century, the basic look of the TLL, with its two eightyfour line columns per page, remains reassuringly familiar. Yet this superficial continuity masks real changes, not least in the basic corpus of material. Obviously the Thesaurus reflects the discovery of new texts. Some of these, like the new Gallus, are familiar to almost any classicist. Others may be more familiar to specialists, especially students of late antiquity: new letters and sermons of Augustine, new passages of Rutilius Namatianus’s De reditu suo and Tiberius Claudius Donatus’s commentary on the Aeneid, portions of a gospel epic by one Severus, the “Appendix Maximiana.”1 And to these literary texts must be added the constant stream of newly published inscriptions, bringing with them new senses, new constructions, new spellings. On the flip side, the TLL’s corpus has also grown smaller. Users of the 1990 Index are familiar with the annotations non iam affertur and its even more disapproving cousin, nunc spernimus. Most often the work has been dropped because a reattribution or redating pushes it beyond the TLL’s terminus of 600 c.e. But other cases are more curious (for additional instances see Kromer 2003). The 1990 Index still includes a text it refers to as “Epist. Vinisii.” This is a brief text published by Nicholson in 1904, a letter from a fourth-century bishop in Roman Britain warning a parishioner against an Arian rival, a certain Biliconus. Or so it was believed. A little over ten years ago, Roger Tomlin showed, in perhaps the wittiest article ever published in ZPE, that this text is in fact an ordinary curse tablet, one of scores or hundreds that survive from the sacred spring in Bath. The saintly “Bishop Vinisius,” his correspondent “Nigra,” and the dastardly “Biliconus” existed only in the first editor’s fantasy; it did not help that he was trying to read the tablet upside down. Less obtrusive—but far more important in the aggregate—are incremental improvements in familiar texts. New commentaries and other works have 2. Latin from A to P: The TLL in the 20th Century