Library of the Anti-Trinitarians

Furthermore, whatever my labor in these matters may eventually be, I by no means wish it to be compared with the author’s own late-night studies lucubrationibus; scholarly works produced through intense study, literally by lamplight. For I am well aware that it is easier to add to things already discovered inventis addere; a Latin proverb meaning it is easier to build upon foundations than to create from nothing, and to follow in the footsteps of others on a well-worn path. Therefore, I do not hesitate in the least to dedicate this work to his great name.

Would that we could have enjoyed his company longer, so that he might have brought to completion not only this labor, but also the others which he had begun original: inchoavit or had intended to start. Nevertheless, what he did accomplish during the brief span of time he spent among mortals, we shall present in its proper place. For it is my intention to include our author as well in the register census; the formal list or catalog of names mentioned on the previous page of these men—although there were those who, while he was still living, wished to see him erased from it. Indeed, shortly before his death original: obitum, a sinister rumor original: fama had been spread by those who...