INTRODUCTION. 39 
corrected by that of Curio. The commentary is 
that of Villa Nova as it was reformed by Curio. 
Moreau’s additions to the text, and his animad- 
versions, are omitted, though the editor professes 
to have used that edition. This has often been 
reprinted, and constitutes what may be considered 
as the editio recepta. 4 
Of editions printed without the commentary, in 
which any remarkable alterations were made in the 
text, I know of two only. 
John Francis Lombard endeavoured to give the 
poem a more classical form, and by discarding rhyme, 
and changing some of the language, to reduce it to 
correct prosody. It was first published in 1566, at 
the end of a synopsis of writers upon the baths and 
Wonders of Puteoli®. The following are some ex- 
tracts from it—it commences : 
Anglorum Regi scribit schola tota Salerni. 
Si vis incolumem, et sanam traducere vitam, 
Curas tolle graves, motus ferventis et ire, 
Parce mero, sit cena brevis tibi, surge parumper 
again in Italia Tllustrata, Frank. 1600, And in Bur- 
Thesaur, Antiq. Ital. vol. ix. part iv. 
