On Nicomachus's Introduction to Arithmetic

PREFACE. IX

cf. Basil the Great, Homily I on the Hexaemeron (Migne, Patrologia Graeca, Vol. XXIX, p. 3 sqq.): Refutation of the Theological Elements of Proclus by Nicholas of Methone (in Creuzer, Initia philosophiae platonicae IV) p. 97.

Therefore, the greatest gratitude is owed to these most distinguished men, Heiberg and Vitelli, as well as to our dearest colleague Nicolaus Festa, who have either corrected or at least detected so many errors in the Florentine codex. 1) I express great gratitude also to the learned men who preside over the Laurentian Library, especially Enrico Rostagno. But if there are still a few things remaining which the learned men might judge to have been handled less successfully, whether through a lack of knowledge or diligence, "I, I am here, I who did it."