On Medicine in Eight Books

to also collect what Foesius had long ago observed in his most learned annotations on Hippocrates. I attempted some things based on my own judgment, though only a very few, and unless the matter openly demanded it. In other cases, where my own books and the ingenious conjectures of the greatest men did not illuminate the way, I preferred to retain the error, or at least leave the passage in suspicion. I thought I could do this all the more securely because I know that the illustrious D. Johannes Rhodium, a man among the first of our century and our art, has kept in his possession for many years a text most thoroughly cleaned from many manuscripts and books, and which, restored to its brilliance by the Author himself, is undoubtedly illustrated with the most lucid commentaries. I ask him (if the memory of our old friendship allows him to be asked) not to prolong the expectation and desire of those who, by their own great merit, hold both Celsus and Rhodium in value and love. I encountered many Glossemata glosses or marginal annotations; however, I dared to remove none of them from the text, except perhaps one, which was too ἀπροσδιόνυσον alien to the subject.