PREFACE.

of the Morellian, though with many places changed, 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 writers of astronomy, which once belonged to Petrus Burmann the Younger. In its margin are noted various readings of both the text of Germanicus and the ancient Latin Scholiast commentator. I gratefully acknowledge the kindness of this outstanding man, with which he wished to assist my work in emending the Aratean works of Germanicus. However, I must point out that those various readings, insofar as they concern the text of Germanicus, were excerpted from the notes of Grotius; and that the emendations of the Latin Scholiast in individual places or words are of little or no benefit. This volume was almost entirely printed when there were brought into the Göttingen academic library copies of the Morellian edition of the Aratean works...