Philological Dissertation on Honored, Learned, Adored, and Fruitful Virginity

We return [gifts] to Bacchus. Kornmann wrote indeed about Virginity, whom I saw by the favor of D. Naudé, a most learned man and dear to me for many reasons. But he proposed one thing, and I proposed something entirely different, from which we do not agree on even a single line. Nor indeed was it my intention to praise Virginity, except briefly and in passing. The holy Fathers did so, whom I cite rarely, because I follow the hypothesis katà poda step-by-step argument, and I do not digress to other things except for the greatest of reasons. I am like one conjecturing in more difficult matters. For who could bear it ill that I am doubtful of my opinion in investigating, for example, the origin of the Sibyl, whom Lactantius called Aeolian, Suidas Roman, and Pausanias African? Therefore, I put forward nothing didaskalikōs in a masterly or dogmatic manner. If I might be allowed to aspire to anything after long and varied labor in letters, perhaps not sufficiently successful, I would wish to have only the name of philodidaskalos a lover of teaching: if anyone envies me this, I renounce it to him most willingly. Furthermore, I have inscribed this as the first dissertation, because if it should not displease,