PREFACE.

...retained me longer than I had intended. Since, however, I acknowledge the many favors of benevolence bestowed upon me from all sides, it will be better to store them in a grateful heart and reserve them for a more suitable place to commemorate them with a richer style. Therefore, I will now return to Justin.

You have, therefore, Benevolent Reader, joined to the text of Justin the complete commentaries of learned men who have applied diligent effort to Justin over the past two centuries. Leading their order are Jacobus Bongarsius, Franciscus Modius, and Matthias Berneccerus, whose notes—with which he had expanded his own second edition—I have gathered into this one. To these are added the notes of Isaac Vossius and my grandfather, which I extracted individually from the book in which they were written. Although he had inserted many corrections not only into his books of Observations, but had also communicated them by letter or other means to those most praiseworthy men, Graevius, Faber, Vorstius, and Schefferus, the notes of all these, together with the extracted annotations of J. Loriti Glareanus and the Oxford Editor (who is frequently praised by Graevius and Schefferus in their secondary efforts), have also been added beneath the text. Then, I also added the brief notes of M. Z. Boxbornius to the end of this edition.

These labors of such great men would have sufficed for the ornamentation of this edition, had not my innate love for literature incited me both to contribute my own share and to testify publicly how much Justin has occupied me thus far. Wherefore, I held nothing more important than to apply my mind to collating the manuscripts...