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TO THE MOST DISTINGUISHED MAN,

PHILIPPE CANAYE,

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I have hurriedly reread the books of Suetonius Tranquillus on the Twelve Caesars during these past days, most distinguished President. At the same time, I have gleaned a few remaining ears of grain metaphorical: small corrections or additions from them, which were unseen by us at the time when we sent them to you polished with new pumice stone. A fairer judge will not be surprised that these things escaped us then. For no man born has ever been so solicitously diligent that, in a rich