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TO THE BENEVOLENT READER

AND THE LOVER OF LEARNED ANTIQUITY

Sends Greetings original: "S. D.", an abbreviation for the Latin "Salutem Dicit," a formal greeting meaning "wishes health" or "sends greetings."

JOHANN ALBERT FABRICIUS.

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Behold, here for you is a distinguished midnight labor original: "lucubrationem"; this term refers to scholarly work produced by intense study late into the night by lamplight. by that most illustrious man, ELIAS SCHEDIUS Elias Schedius (1615–1641) was a German historian and poet; this work is his famous "De Diis Germanis" (On the German Gods).. This work, which has been sought after in bookshops for a long time now, has long since deserved to be restored by the benefit of the printing press, and thus [brought] as if into the light...