PREFACE

reveals. original: "aperit". This completes the sentence from the previous page describing how the "Rising Dawn" clarifies the allegorical language of the philosophers. The rest we pass over for the sake of brevity original: "brevitatis causa": but we provide all these works from manuscript copies original: "manuscriptis exemplaribus", either never published before, or in better and more enlarged versions. The page following the title-page indicates what is contained in each individual volume original: "tomis". Now we must entreat you to look kindly upon these labors of ours, such as they are; you shall perhaps receive even better things from us in the future, if those who love this art and especially the truth are willing to consult for the common good and communicate to us those things which might otherwise perish with them—to no benefit of their own, but to the great detriment of others. I would wish this said not only regarding this art or science original: "scientia", but in all others. For if the ancients had been born only for themselves and had hidden the arts original: "artes" and sciences from us, how, I ask, would we differ from the rest of the living creatures original: "animantibus"? Therefore, enjoy these with a grateful spirit. Farewell original: "Vale".