Historical Disputation on Abaris

even if they were such, it could be confirmed by very many testimonies, if need be, that there were great minds among them as well. Indeed, Abaris himself, by his own example, clearly demonstrated that the accounts regarding the Scythians are entirely contrary to the truth. This I have demonstrated more fully in this exercise. I therefore refer the benevolent Reader to this, and at the same time I ask, above all, that you receive it with a fair mind, and if you recognize anything in it that I have done amiss, consider that I am but a man. Meanwhile, I have exerted all my strength to ensure that whatever I encountered in the reading of Greek and Latin writers regarding Abaris, and which I deemed most pertinent, I might communicate with the loyalty that is due to the most benign Readers, if any there shall be. If, therefore, anyone finds anything in this little work that might hold them with some pleasure, it will bring me the greatest capacity for joy and will incite me, with the help of the Supreme Deity, to proceed in my studies with even greater fervor and delight. Farewell.