PREFACE OF THE NEW EDITOR.

In this edition of the Epistles of L. A. Seneca, it was necessary to alter slightly the method of editing that we had followed in the two previous volumes. For since a new recension of these Epistles had been published by the most learned J. Schweighäuser¹, equipped with an ample collection of critical notes and new readings, and since it was sufficiently evident that a much purer text had emerged from this recension, it was decided to receive this text and these notes into our edition and commit them to print; not, however, in such a way as to desert our Ruhkopf, who has hitherto deserved so well of us. For we have drawn from him most of the exegetical notes, which do not occur in J. Schweighäuser, while at the same time preserving critical notes on those places which had been neglected by the new editor; so that these two volumes which are now coming to light may contain the scholarly labors of both men simultaneously. We have taken care to note with these letters Schw., Ruhk., or merely S., R., what was taken from one or the other. (Those which we ourselves have added, we have distinguished with no special mark.)

¹ Under this title: L. Annæi Senecæ ad Lucilium Epistolæ Morales, ad fidem veterum librorum, in his trium manuscriptorum Argentoratensium, recognovit, emendavit notisque criticis illustravit Johannes Schweighæuser, Instituto Gallo-Franc. adscriptus, Græcarum litterarum in schola Argentoratensi professor; 2 vol. Argentorati, ex typographia societatis Bipontinæ, 1809.