FREDERICK AUGUSTUS

KING

PIOUS, JUST, FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY

original Latin: PATRI PATRIAE. This was a Roman honorific title traditionally bestowed upon leaders who were seen as the protectors of the nation.

PATRON OF LITERATURE

original Latin: LITERARVM FAVTORI. Here literature refers to the broader field of scholarship and letters.

MOST LEARNED

PATRON OF SCHOLARS

MOST GENEROUS

EDITION OF CLAUDIUS GALEN

WITH A PIOUS AND GRATEFUL MIND

original Latin: D. D. D., an abbreviation for Dat, Dicat, Dedicat. This is a formal Latin phrase commonly used in academic dedications to express the editor's submission of the work to a patron.

THE EDITOR.