Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

work sometimes helped me out of a difficult spot: yet I must also say that the same was consulted by me just as often in vain. Therefore, if incompletenesses or inaccuracies appear here and there, I ask the reader not to lose sight of fairness, and to place the burden for them solely upon me, and I hope that it will not be too tedious for him to find traces that testify to my diligence in giving the work the perfection and accuracy intended for it.