On the Cave of the Nymphs

third, or eighth form. This volume contains nothing except the Homeric Questions and this booklet on the Cave of the Nymphs, published individually. On the front, it reads as follows:

On the reverse side of the title page stands a Tribute by Lascaris Janus Lascaris, a prominent Greek scholar of the Renaissance; soon follow the questions themselves; then the booklet on the Cave; all without page numbers. This edition is very rare, and noteworthy because it is more accurate than almost all the rest; yet it is mentioned by no one who has reviewed the editions of this booklet. This is why its existence escaped Fabricius Johann Albert Fabricius, a renowned 18th-century bibliographer himself, despite him being such an investigator of such matters! The distinguished JO. JAC. SCHULTENS provided me with a copy of this treasure from his most ample library: a man whom to see and admire, to hear and venerate, to know and to love, are inseparable; indeed, to me he is especially dear and to be regarded as a parent. If I were to say that I owe him as much as one man can owe another, let the Reader believe that I am saying nothing that does not perfectly correspond to his merits.

The other edition is the Venetian one from the year 1521, or rather 1528, in octavo format, at the expense of Aldus and his father-in-law A. Asulanus; for this is one and the same