Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato

have never been reprinted, I have included in this edition of mine.

In the preface to the first volume, I warned the reader that a certain part of the commentary on the Alcibiades a dialogue of Plato, translated into Latin by Antonio Hermann Gogava, and not yet published, would be brought to light here by my efforts; this, as I promised, is now being edited. Lambecius original: "Lambec." (1) announces these first words of this version: "We consider the most important and firmest beginning of civil disputes, and of universal, so to speak, philosophical contemplation, to be the knowledge of one's own essence, the discrimination of oneself. For the foundation of this being duly laid, etc." He adds also that Antonio Hermann Gogava was a most famous physician and mathematician, born at Grave, in Brabant; but in what century he lived, and whence it became known that he was a physician and mathematician, there is nothing of this in Lambecius: as to the codex, he only says it was written in the Belgian script, and therefore very difficult to read. Whose codex, therefore,

(1) Lambecius, Bibliotheca Vindobonensis Vienna Library, Volume 7, Number 69.