Diogenous Laertiou Peri biōn, dogmatōn kai apophthegmatōn tōn en philosophia eudokimēsantōn biblia 10

my mind began to wonder whether it were better to publish them again as imperfect, or to reserve them until the time when I could publish them perfect and equally revised. And finally, this opinion prevailed, that they should be reserved until that time. But I hoped that I would obtain indulgence the more easily because, just as that former edition of mine had possessed its own annotations, so now this one would have the notes of Isaac Casaubon: which, since they had been pleasing to everyone before, would now be much more pleasing, as they would be much more augmented and corrected. Yet I did not trust enough that I would avoid the many complaints of many people, unless I myself had contributed some new gifts to this work, which would diminish for some the regret for those annotations (for in them, when I performed other things, I also did this: I rendered the reason for very many passages that had been restored to their integrity, and for not a few that had been filled in), and I had made it clear to all that my mind was rather called away from such commentaries than alienated from them by various cares. But conveniently, while I was turning over many of my papers (such as those that are called adversaria), which were miserably scattered and dispersed, I chanced upon certain Schediasmata rough drafts, from the number of those that have not yet been published: and indeed, like a θεὸς ἀπὸ μηχανῆς god from the machine, that part which contained some passages of this writer of ours amended by conjecture came into view.