On Medicine in Eight Books

This has resulted in me rereading him quite often, and never without the wish that someone might exist who would either give him to us as corrected as possible, or supply the material for correcting him. Having finally obtained this through your kindness, and having become noble and rich in resources, I immediately set my hand to the work; so that I might satisfy both my own desire and the expectation of those among whom, on every occasion, I have been accustomed to both praise our Cornelius and seriously recommend him. However, how successfully the matter has turned out under my hand, I would like you, above all others, to judge. For this is, among many, the reason for me that I have dedicated this Celsus—whom I have made my own through a certain image of adoption—to your most celebrated name, and to one whom I respect and honor for many reasons. For, as he is about to emerge into the sight of this century, which is as disdainful of antiquity as it is greedy for every novelty, he did not dare to appear without a patron, into whose