On the German Gods

FABRICIUS’S PREFACE.

...having been recalled, it might be handed over and commended once more to the hands of students by right of restoration original: "postliminio," a legal term referring to the recovery of rights or property upon returning from abroad or captivity; here used metaphorically for a book returning to print.. This work, now polished and expanded with various learned observations for your use, is offered by a distinguished man, who is not unknown to you through the published specimen of the History of the Learned Academies of Italy, which he released at Leipzig in the year 1725: Master JOHANNES JARKIUS of Stade. He shares this in common with Schedius: just as Schedius consecrated himself to more elegant literature in the first flower of his age and composed the present book, so too has Jarkius—enkindled by the same love of studies from his early years—made his own notes on that work public while still quite a young man. Nor should this [youth] be held to the discredit of either man, for to them it was given, through a wise heart, erudition, and industry, not only to equal but to surpass the maturity original: "senium," literally "old age," referring here to the wisdom and gravity usually reserved for elders. of many; indeed, it may serve as a just defense against the harsher critics and detractors.

I do not doubt that the example especially of John Selden John Selden (1584–1654) was an English jurist and polymath whose work on ancient law and "De Diis Syris" (On the Syrian Gods) heavily influenced Schedius., a most eminent man—just as Thucydides was once moved by Herodotus—allu-