Rasa-Jala-Nidhi, or Ocean of Indian Chemistry & Alchemy, vol. 1

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...the audacity of the copyists, such that when they lacked the descriptions of the Gemini and Cancer constellations by Germanicus, they inserted snippets from Avienus, so that the images would not lack accompanying explanations. It is surprising that the editions of Germanicus older than Grotius's Syntagma a systematic collection, especially the Aldine, Basle, Morellian, and Sanctandrean referring to various early printed editions editions, agree in very many places, even in the most nonsensical errors and in verses that are omitted, transposed, or miserably distorted; for the few corrections Morellius made in his notes are mostly just typographical errors from the Aldine edition. It seems, therefore, that all these editions flowed from the Aldine. Grotius deserves the greatest credit for emending the fragments of Germanicus, partly with the help of a manuscript codex, which I have already mentioned, partly by following Aratus and his commentators, and partly also by considering what the subject matter itself, about which Germanicus was speaking, might demand.?

*) Regarding the editions of the Aratean works of Cicero, Germanicus, and Avienus, see the preface to Vol. I.

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