Tzetzes' Allegories of the Iliad and Psellos' Allegories

he left, and hastened to the Royal Library, described the codex manuscript in haste, which I used to call my own due to long usage, and seized the edition. "Is this a human act?" Nay, most inhuman! For I would have gladly given him my transcript apographum transcript/copy, if he had warned me of his intention. Whether he is still among the living, or has departed to the majority, I do not know; but if life remains in him, which I hope, and I wish that it may flow for him happy and fortunate, he will unwittingly stumble upon these words of mine, Nemeseos synergouse with Nemesis working together, and he will recognize himself against his will, not without shame and repentance.

To the Allegories of Tzetzes I have added, because of the similarity of the subject, the Allegories of Psellus on Tantalus, the Sphinx, and Circe, formerly published by Conr. Gesner after Heraclides Ponticus, which Jacobsius, while illustrating the Homeric works of Tzetzes, had not found in the rich Germany of books. I have added a fourth, not yet edited, on the Cave of the Nymphs. As I was about to add a fifth on the Golden Chain, a sudden weakness of my left eye seized me, which deterred me from reading and transcribing a codex written in the worst hand, absorbent, which its length makes very inconvenient, and its heaviness most burdensome.

The rarity and novelty of the Psellian Allegories, and what is sprinkled in the notes of critical material and miscellaneous observations, will serve as a plank for my volume, by which I hope he may escape shipwreck.