Library of the Anti-Trinitarians

Furthermore, whatever my own labor in these matters may be, I by no means wish for it to be compared with the author's scholarly labors original: lucubrationibus; literally "work done by lamplight," implying intensive late-night study. For I am well aware that it is easier to add to things already discovered original: inventis and to follow in the footsteps original: vestigia of others along a path already worn. And so, I do not hesitate at all to dedicate this work to his great name. Would that we could have enjoyed his presence longer, so that he might have brought to completion not only this labor, but also others which he had begun original: inchoavit or had intended to begin in his mind.

Nevertheless, what he did achieve during the brief span of time he spent among mortals, we shall present in the appropriate place. For I intend to include our author himself in the list original: censum; a register or catalog of these men—even though there were some who, while he was still alive, desired to see him struck from it. Indeed, shortly before his death original: obitum, a sinister rumor original: fama had been spread by those who [desired] it...