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PREFACE.

of the Morellian [edition], with many passages changed, however, just as I have explained more fully in the notes.

The most learned man, I. F. M. Herbell, shared with me a copy of the Sanctandrean edition of the ancient Astronomers, which once belonged to Petrus Burmannus the Younger, in whose margin are noted various readings of both the text of Germanicus and the old Latin scholiast. I gratefully acknowledge the kindness of this most distinguished man, with which he wished to aid my work in amending the Aratean works of Germanicus; it must be noted by me, however, that those various readings, insofar as they concern the text of Germanicus, were excerpted from the notes of Grotius; but that little or nothing is gained from the emendations of the Latin scholiast in individual passages or words. This volume was almost already printed when copies of the Aratean edition of Morellius were brought into the academic library of Göttingen.