Rasārṇavakalpa

...demanded. For the subject matter treated by Germanicus is of such a nature that you can quite often determine what must necessarily be read, even if the conjecture is supported by the authority of no manuscript, or if the readings of manuscripts and editions conflict with it. Therefore, I have referred the text of Germanicus, which I provided to be copied from the Morellian edition (Paris, 1559, 4to), not only to the Grotian text—which differs little from the Morellian—but I have also accepted many corrections set forth by Grotius in his notes, though not without good reason. Sometimes, I have even departed from the Grotian reading, and have either retained the vulgate or ordered my own conjecture, which seemed more probable, to pass into the text. In general, I considered it better to provide the fragments of Germanicus in such a way that they would at least contain a sound sense, even if the genuineness of the reading might be doubted, than to preserve an ancient reading that is devoid of any sense. I have added, moreover, the fragments