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must be said to have fulfilled this, since they did not so much declare that they were looking to explain the matters treated therein as they were rather to publish the Questions in as corrected a state as possible. Whence it undoubtedly came to pass that the text emerged in many parts more corrected than it had been read before, although they did not offer an author so thoroughly purged everywhere that he required no further critical aid. For many places remain which are clearly corrupt, and others which provide a not unjust suspicion of corruption. Wherefore, if we are not able to offer a full and just recension, nevertheless a revision, diligently and soberly established, seemed likely to bring some assistance to this excellent work. Perhaps it will fall to our lot to be so fortunate as to add in the following volume the resources by which the text may become much more corrected. There will be room to speak more fully of these in the preface to be prefixed to that volume¹. Farewell, and favor our studies. Given at Bielefeld, on the very Kalends of August, 1811.

¹ Concerning those resources which are hoped for even now, see the Preface to the first volume of our edition, p. XII et seq.