Francisci Porti Cretensis... In omnes Sophoclis tragoedias prolegomena, ut vulgo vocantur

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AEMILIUS, SON OF FRANCISCUS PORTUS
OF CRETE,
TO THE MOST KIND
READER, GREETINGS.

I have heard with great pleasure, most kind reader, that my father's short commentaries written on Pindar, and recently brought to light, have been welcome to many lovers of Greek Greek: ton philellenon. For which reason, I have decided that his remaining writings should also be printed, but more accurately than the previous ones, if only it can be done. Meanwhile, however, I have taken care that the prolegomena introductory remarks to all the tragedies of Sophocles, and the preparation Greek: paraskeuen for the oration of Demosthenes On the False Embassy, and six Orations, which he formerly delivered in the most celebrated Academy of the Duke of Ferrara in Modena as Professor of the Greek language, be sent to the press as a certain pledge and argument of greater things. If God, the Best and Greatest, favors our beginnings and seconds our labors, you will shortly have Thucydides, and each of his speeches diligently explained by the same father of mine with rhetorical art. You will also have the Ideas of Hermogenes, the booklet of Dionysius Longinus on the sublime style of speaking, some Orations of Demosthenes, the greater part of Xenophon, some minor works of Plutarch, and some tragedies of Euripides