The Free Sea

...would unlearn their injustice to their own detriment. But while we do not perhaps hope for this in vain in this present cause, we certainly trust in this: that having carefully weighed the matter, you will all judge that the delays of peace cannot be imputed to us any more than the causes of war. Therefore, just as you have hitherto been friendly, favoring, and well-disposed toward us, so we trust you will be, or even more so, in the future. Nothing is more desirable for those who consider the first part of happiness to be doing well, and the second to be spoken of well, than this.

Correct the errors in the text as follows.

In the preface, second to last line, write vos (you). Page 3, line 16, probabiliores Victoria putat (Victoria considers more probable). Page 9, line 3, intrepide aff. (affirms fearlessly). Page 14, line 8, proprium quid (something proper). Page 18, line 9, genuina (genuine). Page 21, line 15, servo (I preserve). Page 25, line 5, prohibeam (I would prohibit) and line 17, maris (of the sea). Page 26, line 6, asserit (he asserts). Page 27, line 9, at alios (but others). Page 31, last line, maris, ambitu Maur. (of the sea, by the circuit of the Moors). Page 46, line 2, nationum (of nations). Page 63, line 6, τοὺς ἑτέρας (the others). Page 64, line 2, καὶ (and) and line 14, Centaurica. Page 66, line 22, inultos (unpunished). In the citations, you will sometimes find de for d., that is, dicto (said). S for f., that is, supra (above). q for q. i., quæstione (question): and similar things.