Ancient Latin Agricultural Writers, Vol. I

...among his greatest ornaments, a farmer and a most refined rustic. Hence, all the readings were also related to our collection. However, that collation does not proceed beyond Book 8, chapter 11, verse 4: whether the ancient exemplar did not have more, or whether Goes or Broukhusius were tired. If the former is the case, I reject the conjecture by which it seemed to me that it was the same Codex of Saint-Germain to which Nicolaas Heinsius often appeals; for the emendations of the latter proceed almost to the end of the books. Otherwise, the things that Heinsius praises and those that Goes—to whose family it is known the former's books reached—brings forward agree so often with each other that it would be a wonder if they were different. If at any time they seem to dissent, as for example at 6. praef. 7, it is possible that Heinsius's conjecture Atticis was taken for the reading Atticus of the book itself. But since those specimens of the Heinsian emendations had rightly stirred the appetites of scholars, Schöttgen did indeed attempt access to those archives, but he received a sad reply: the Heinsian heirs would not agree for those treasures to be granted to outsiders. It is good, therefore, that even against the will of certain people, the material in which the Heinsian genius worked has now become public law, which everyone can use in the future. Besides this ornament of our edition, the Codex taken from the library of the most distinguished Leipzig Order was also salutary in many places, a treasury so filled with the best books,