DEDICATION OF THE LEIPZIG EDITION.

TO THE MOST SERENE

PRINCE AND LORD

LORD

FREDERICK CHRISTIAN

ROYAL PRINCE OF POLAND AND GRAND DUKE OF LITHUANIA

PRINCE

DUKE OF SAXONY, JULICH, CLEVES, BERG, ANGRIA, AND WESTPHALIA

HEREDITARY PRINCE OF THE ELECTORATE OF SAXONY

LANDGRAVE OF THURINGIA, MARGRAVE

OF MEISSEN AND OF UPPER AND LOWER

LUSATIA

PRINCIPAL COUNT OF HENNEBERG

COUNT OF THE MARK, RAVENSBERG

BARBY AND HANAU

LORD OF RAVENSTEIN, ETC.

HIS MOST CLEMENT LORD.

MOST SERENE ROYAL PRINCE

MOST CLEMENT LORD.

That I dare to offer to YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS with the most humble cultivation of my soul this excellent work of Constantine, the most learned Caesar, had already been decided by the devotion of my late brother to consecrate to YOUR nature, which is most benevolent toward the higher sciences. Nor, indeed, can such a distinguished monument of imperial doctrine be placed in a more worthy location than with YOU, MOST SERENE ROYAL PRINCE, whose court, Virtus Latin personification of courage and moral excellence