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An Interjection.

May you find
Whatever
in this place
to note

1. Judicious brother of mine, because today there is an infinite wantonness of slandering, and I myself have been severely beaten more than once in this regard—namely, because I had done something of my vigils for the public good, and perhaps some things were present nearby that were taken metaphorically or figuratively, not immediately obvious to every comprehension, and yet I had not appended an index of the more recondite words and phrases—therefore, now made more cautious by my own loss, I have proposed to set up glossaries and paragraphs for the more abstruse words and sharper sentences.

2. For there are some who are so learned and so stubborn that they easily condemn, carp at, and spit upon everything they do not know or feel themselves, and approve or endorse nothing except only that which has been known and verified by them. Soon, when a syntax or a word occurs that they perhaps do not grasp at first glance, they say: "This is invented, not accepted Latin, because I have never read or heard this elsewhere." By this, they wish to indicate not unclearly that it is also not to be tolerated. Truly, a judgment worthy of both Platonic and Socratic lips! As if such arrogant and gluttonous readers, or pan-wise "all-knowing" people with great noses, should have read or heard everything that lurks in the vast field of Latinity, which one might rightly call a most profound ocean, barely explorable by the plumb line of our years.

3. Nevertheless, the itch for calumny and the poison of envy grows and festers to such an extent that nothing in the present face of this ulcerated age seems to act more upon one who brings his works to light than to adorn a certain table for detractors and malevolent people, who tear apart and gnaw at everything set before them, not to mention with acidic and stinging tongues and bites, but with violent ruptures and Theonine teeth a classical reference to the poet Theon, known for biting criticism, not only at what displeases them,