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

and the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, illustrated with the continuous notes of the same man. And indeed, most kind reader, we can easily promise you these things which are in our hand. As for the rest, which are not currently in our power, perhaps they too will one day be brought to light with no small profit to the literary world. For the decision concerning these rests with men of whose proven integrity and uncommon affection toward the happy memory of my parent, it would be sinful for us to doubt. Farewell. Given at Lausanne, the Kalends of December, 1583.

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