Odd comma

[Lavrentivs]

Quare tamdiu cunctatus sum ut deinceps essem in culpâ, si quod temporis superest ad agendum, deliberando consumerem.

Is there any explanation of these odd commata? I would expect:

Quare tamdiu cunctatus sum ut deinceps essem in culpâ si quod temporis superest ad agendum deliberando consumerem.

or

Quare tamdiu cunctatus sum ut deinceps essem in culpâ si, quod temporis superest ad agendum, deliberando consumerem.

or

Quare tamdiu cunctatus sum ut deinceps essem in culpâ, si, quod temporis superest ad agendum, deliberando consumerem.

[lauragibbs]

Commas are purely an editorial choice and conventions vary from country to country and from time to time and even from person to person. You could put a comma at any and all phrase and clause boundaries in the sentence. It's the editor's prerogative.

Quare : for this reason
tamdiu cunctatus sum : I was so long delayed
ut deinceps essem in culpâ : that henceforth I would be wrong
si : if
quod temporis superest ad agendum : which [amount] of time which remains for action
deliberando consumerem. : I were to consume [that amount] in deliberating.

An editor who was fond of commas might put them at each juncture:

Quare, tamdiu cunctatus sum, ut deinceps essem in culpâ, si, quod temporis superest ad agendum, deliberando consumerem.

[MatthaeusLatinus]

It's alſo good to know that the Ancients lacked punctuation altogether. Moreover, there were even no ſpaces between words.

QVARETAMDIVCVNCTATVSSVMVTDEICEPSESSEMINCVLPASIQVODTEMPORISSVPERESTADAGENDVMDELIBERANDOCONSVMEREM

would not have been unuſual.

[adrianus]

Laurentius rightly says "commata" (nom. plural). Whitaker's Words wrongly says comma is first declension (at least in the edition I have). Words has mistakes but is still very handy, of course.

Rectè dicit Laurentius qui "commata" pluraliter scribit. Errat Whitaker qui id primae declinationis habet, secundum programma eius, Words nomine (per eam editionem saltem quam habeo). Menda quidem habet programma at et perutile est.

[MatthaeusLatinus]

Whikater's hath plenty miſtakes.