PREFACE.

demand. For the subject treated by Germanicus is of such a nature that you can quite often determine what must necessarily be read, even if a conjecture is not supported by the authority of any manuscript, or if the readings of the manuscripts and editions conflict with it. Therefore, I have looked at the text of Germanicus, which I have had printed for this work based on the Morellian edition (Paris, 1559, 4to), not only in relation to the Grotian text, which differs little from the Morellian, but I have also accepted many emendations presented by Grotius in his notes, though not without good reason. Sometimes I have departed from the Grotian reading and have either retained the common version or ordered my own conjecture, which seemed more probable, to move into the text. In short, I have considered it better to provide the fragments of Germanicus in such a way that they at least contain a sound meaning, even if the genuineness of the reading may be doubted, rather than to preserve an ancient reading that is devoid of any sense. Furthermore, I have added the fragments...