Philosophical Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Vol. 3

F. E. RUHKOPF'S PREFACE.

That old edition sometimes provided readings that the other old editions lack¹. I wrote this at Bielefeld in the beginning of the month of May, 1800.

1 Cf. regarding it the Acta Eruditorum of the year 1725, p. 429, cited by Ernesti in his notes to Fabricius’ Bibliotheca Latina, Vol. II, p. 108. There it is called an edition of the Epistles very ancient, if not princeps, which could be preferred to manuscripts for the reason that it has entirely elegant summaries, which occur in no other editions, etc. I will provide some of these excerpts here: First. On collecting and saving the flight of time, and that he is not poor to whom, however little remains, is enough. Third: On the manner of choosing and cultivating a friend, and that it is just as much a vice to trust everyone as it is to trust no one, just as it is a vice either to be always restless or always quiet.