Excerpt from T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex, Vol. 1: With Notes and a Translation Berealdi praeceptoris quondam mei: nunc collegae: impressus quidem sed tsmen perpense examinatus. Godri quoque grammatici Bononiensrs cuius copia mihi per Bartholomeum Blanchinum virum eloquii excultis simi facts est: Marullique poetae industria mira castigatum non defuit exemplar Severo Monaco Placentino graece latineque perdocto musarum athleta non gravatim ofi'erente'. He makes no mention at all of the man to whom he was most indebted, Avancius: for his text is a reprint of the first Aldine, with however not a few changes Of words or phrases, Often for the better, often for the worse, either inserted in the text or pro posed in the notes, and derived it may be presumed in many cases from one or other of the sources just mentioned. But strange to say when he makes a change in the text, the lemma. Of his note nearly always con tains not this reading, but that of Avancius as if he had meant it to stand: thus I 9 he rightly reads defuse lamina; but his lemma has dif fuse numine with Avancius, which the latter however corrects at the end of his Catullus: and he adds sunt qui legunt lumine'. 16 for capta he wrongly inserts in the text quodque but his lemma has capta, and his note rightly explains the construction and makes no mention of quodque. 34 his text properly has Reiicit, his lemma Rqficit after Avancius; 35 his text wrongly gives mapirans, the lemma mspiciem; and so throughout the poem. This very singular circumstance I explain in this way: he was living at Rome when his edition was printed and seems to have sent the text and commentary separately; for the book seller prints at the end a long page of errors with this notice prefixed, Hieronymus Platonicus Bononiensis bibliopola ad lectorem. Contuli Pii exemplar cum edito Lucretio: labeculasque pauculas notavi cet.' Pius' edition was reprinted by Ascensius in 15 l 4 with not a few c in the text, some of them taken from the notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.