The Egyptian Language Restored

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...the audacity of the painters, so that, when they lacked the descriptions of the Twins and the Crab by Germanicus, they inserted scraps from Avienus, so that the images would not lack their accompanying explanations. It is strange that the editions of Germanicus, which are older than the Grotius Syntagma—especially the Aldine, Basle, Morellian, and Sanctandren editions*)—concur in many things, even in the most tasteless errors, in omitted verses, or [verses that are] moved or miserably distorted; for the things which Morellius corrected in the notes are few, and are for the most part typographical errors of the Aldine edition. It seems, therefore, that all these editions flowed from the Aldine. Grotius deserved very well in correcting the fragments of Germanicus, partly by the aid of a manuscript codex, of which I have already made mention, partly by following Aratus and his commentators, and partly also by contemplating what the subject matter itself, about which Germanicus was speaking, [illegible]?

*) Regarding the editions of the Aratean works of Cicero, Germanicus, and Avienus, see the preface to Volume I.