PREFACE.

and the Syntagma of Grotius, both of which once belonged to Petrus Burmann the Younger. In the copy of the Morellian edition, P. Burmann, the uncle of the Younger, transcribed the Scholiast of Germanicus from a copy made by Nicolaus Heinsius, augmented with significant additions, along with the emendations of Cauchius from the codex of Graevius. In the copy of Grotius's Syntagma, various readings and conjectures were added in the margin by the same man, drawn partly from the notes of Grotius, partly from an ancient codex of the Leiden library—which I later discovered to be the same as the one used by Grotius—and partly from the Parisian Putean codex, which agrees in very many places with the book of Grotius. Burmann also sprinkled in some of his own conjectures that are by no means to be despised. I regret greatly that I was unable to use these resources for the greater perfection of this edition.

Meanwhile, I am allowed to boast of another ornament that has accrued to this edition through...