Nonius Marcellus: On the Propriety of Language (1826) - Page 20

Vatican manuscript, which, since it is brief, I shall present here:
The expositions of Ancient Words with testimonies by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius begin. So that it might not be thought through any disobedience that I have shortened the series of your instructions, Lord, I have rendered the booklet, which you ordered to be prepared concerning abstruse words, completed as far as the storehouse of memory could provide, not so much studying the ornamental foams of speech as dedicating effort to making the manifestations of things clear. I do not know why Dionysius Gothofredus and Hadrianus Iunius omitted this little letter from other editions.

2. Editions.

Concerning our booklet—for I set aside the remaining small works of Fulgentius—these are generally the editions:

1498 Allegorical Enarrations of the Fables of Fulgentius Planciades. With a commentary by Jo. Bapt. Pius of Bologna. At the end: Printed in Milan by Master Uldericus Scinzenzeller in the year of the Lord 1498, on the 23rd day of the month of April. — There follows: Fabii Fulgentii Planciadis [expositio sermonum] antiquorum cum testimonio ad Calcidium Exposition of ancient words with testimony for Chalcidius.

1535 With Hyginus. From the revision of Micyllus. Basel, from the press of Hervagius, folio.

1536 With Hyginus. Ibid., octavo.

1549 With Hyginus. Basel, from the press of Hervagius, folio. The Micyllian edition.

1565 With Nonius: Hadrianus Iunius’s review, who, however, thought too much license was permitted to himself at times, as witnessed by Fabricius.

1566 With the works of Fulgentius the Bishop. Basel, from the workshop of Henricus Petrus, folio.

1570. With Hyginus. Basel, folio.

1577. With Isidore’s Etymologies Originibus, from the revision of Bonaventura Vulcanius (who used an excellent manuscript). Basel, from the press of Petrus Perna, folio.