The Satyricon

I Prolegomena on satire (It is proper to satire that it speaks the truth humbly — they spring forth) and Persius.

II Of the end of the 11th century, as Keilius says, or the end of the 12th century, as Froehnerus says: the end of the second book of Cicero’s On Divination (ptolomeum facile sanaret II 66, 135 — dicta essent surreximus), on folio 17 verso Marcus Tullius’s On Divination book II ends. The book of Petronius Arbiter’s Satires begins, on folio 25 recto Petronius ends. The eclogue of Calpurnius begins (Nundum solis equos I 1 — quicquid id est siluestre et cetera IIII 12).

III Of the 12th century: Seneca’s Proverbs.

Although I could judge sufficiently about this codex from those things which Henricus Keilius and Conradus Bursianus had once shared with Otto Iahnius, nevertheless, when Guilelmus Froehnerus, with a dutiful will toward me, had compared the whole of Petronius to the exemplar of Hadrianides, it was a scruple for me to reject such strenuous work. But because the book is more difficult to read, not only do the things which Burmannus reported from the Colbertinus, but also those which Keilius, Bursianus, and Froehnerus reported, differ a little among themselves sometimes, but not so much that I thought it necessary to distinguish what seemed so to each. Moreover, since the codex that belonged to John, Duke of Berry—which I, following Pithoeus, named Bituricus of Berry—agreed with P in so many faults and errors, I believe that one was copied from the other. Therefore, I indeed showed in my edition the testimonies from the Bituricus wherever they seemed to be of some value; if, however, they agreed with P or were separated by a thin difference or were altogether useless, I was accustomed to pass over them. But yet, to show that Scaliger knew this book, and Palmerius did not—who gave as a witness for p. 38, 9 the "old British codex"—namely "v. c. Br." or "v. c. Brit." is noted by Tornaesius as Bituricus—I gathered in this place whatever Pithoeus produced from it with Tornaesius:

p. 4, 10 adsignes exerc. excessisse. and therefore grand and if I may so say pud. o. n. e. muscular but turgid p. 5, 10 ipse etiam scola fundauerat he himself had also founded a school p. 6, 1 Cicio p. 6, 6 moriatur let him die p. 8, 7 armigenae born of arms p. 9, 1 ingenuus free-born p. 10, 11 Intesticulos inuidasque m. interspat. p. 18, 12 detexit uncovered p. 19, 2 regia royal p. 26, 7 Parrhathis nostra p. 27, 10 uocantium of those calling