C. Suvetonii Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libri VIII. Isaacus Casaubonus iterum recensuit. Accessit ejusdem Animadversionum appendicula. Additi etiam sunt Suetonii libelli De illustribus grammaticis

harvest, he would leave no gleaning; no one has ever been so sharp-sighted a reference to Lynceus of the Argonauts, known for his extraordinary vision that, in this particular genre of literature, he would perceive everything at once. But it is an oracle, not merely a saying of the ancients, that the later day is always the master of the former; it is a decree of nature herself, not of men. I pass over the fact that that previous edition necessarily had to be hastened by me rather than matured. And you will perhaps wonder why even now so few things have been added by us, you who understand, from your singular erudition, that more and heavier things could have been added. But when we were writing these things, the revision of Athenaeus A work on the Banquet of the Learned, which we undertook at the encouragement of most learned men, kept me so occupied and exercised that I have no need for another patron at this time than Athenaeus. He, I know, will easily obtain from you that, with the same countenance with which you received the previous edition, you will deign to consider this small one of equal value,