PREMONITION OF THE NEW EDITOR.

to two Frenchmen most skilled in physical, geological, and chemical matters, Messrs. Darcet and Desmarest; they had indeed added to the very learned and numerous notes of our countryman Lagrange an excellent interpretation, by which many passages of Seneca were either refuted or better explained. We have used these, however, only rarely, since Köhler had said almost everything about every passage.

We offer fewer things from our own store than if Köhler had not presumed almost everything: yet we hope that some things, which are little known, or most recently discovered, or arranged in a different order, will not appear to be superfluous. Among these are four Excursus.