A horizontal woodcut headpiece featuring symmetrical, interlaced knotwork and foliate patterns. Below it, a large ornamental woodcut initial 'H' contains floral and leafy decorative elements.

THE PRINTER

TO THE STUDENTS

OF PHILOLOGY

You have here, kind Reader, the newest edition of the Epitome of the Adagia of Erasmus, that same edition purged of almost innumerable errors—with which those last published were teeming beyond measure, original: ὡς μύρμηκες ἀνήριθμοι καὶ ἄμετροι "like countless and measureless ants" (to use the words of Theocritus)—purged, I say, with a sharper file of genius and judgment, as much as could be done in this fortunate time, and augmented in many places with necessary additions of words, so that even without any weariness it may now provide you with an easier reading, purer