Excerpt from P. Papini Stati Achilleis

Achilleidos -statianae editione, quam anno prioris sae culi LXXIX Philippus Kohlmann curavit, divendita ad me pervenit iterandi eam officium. Quamobrem ut appareat, quibus fundamentis usus carminis huius verba constituerim panca praefationis loco dicenda sunt. Tamen ne quis nunc plenam copiosamque de libris Statianis epicorum nempe carminum, nam de Silvis rem absolvimus dissertationem a me exsmctet. Quod munus alio tempore me posse subire Spero, ubi etiam Thebaidos recensionem aggressurus ero huiusque poematis librorum collationes comparavero. Hic vero nihil agimus nisi hoc, ut quantum fieri potest bre vissime indicemus, quo fundamento nostra editio nitatur, ne omni iudicio sint destituti qui legant. Ac primum quidem de codice Puteaneo, omnium quicumque aetatem tulerunt optimo, verba faciemus, tum de reliquis libris quos ad textum constituendum adhibuìmus deinde quo vinculo reliqui illi libri cohaereant inter se et quae sit relatio inter bos et Puteaneum, quaeremus denique in fine praefationis duas tabulas collocabimus, alteram nota rum quae in apparata critico leguntur, alteram viromm, doctorum qui ad Stati Achilleidem emendandam symbo las contulerunt.

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