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And when we fpeak of the Elegancy of the Types and . 
Letters ufed in this Imprefficn., we cannot butobferve to 
the Reader, that Mr. Wetjlen, by Advice of that moft 
Learned Man Mr. Mark Meilomius, hath in this Edition 
(and fome other Greek Books) thrown away cat of the 
Alphabet all thole knotty and perplexing Abbreviations, 
commonly called by Printers Ligatures. Thefe Liga- 
tures have been a long time Thorns in the Eyes of all 
that fir ft learn Greek. It may be hoped that all Foun- 
ders of Greek Letters will for the future wholly omit, 
and banifli thefe troublefom and uielels Ligatures. 
The Greek Text of Diogenes Laertius was thought 
Hill, even after that Edition at London, 166^. very cor- 
rupt and unintelligible. Therefore Mr. Wetften made a 
Journey into England, to fee what Helps might here be 
had, to mend the Text, Two. Copies in Greek of Dioge- 
nes were found ; one in trinity Colledge in Cambridge, . 
the other in the Arundelian Library, now in the PofTeffi- 
on of the Royal Society. Out of both thefe the Pub- 
liflier, Mr. Wetften, obtained the Variant es Leftiones from 
his Friend Dr. Gale, who had entred them upon his La* 
ertius, which he put into Mr. Wetftens hand. 
Now whereas the famous Mr. JEgidius Menagius in 
the London Edition of Diogenes, was thought to have left 
nothing untoucht in his Polite Notes, which might' i!- 
iuftrate his Author ; yet here, in this Edition, he hath 
added Co wonderful Colle&ions, that he hath now out- 
done not only Ifaac Cafauhwe, Aldobrandinus ^nd pthers, . 
but even himfelf alfo. 
To him in the fame Undertaking hath fucceeded 
Mr. Kuhnius, who very happily hath cleared many pla- { 
ces which ieemed ftill dark and left intelligible. 
But to omit all others, we here find the moft accurate 
Critick in the Greek and Latin Languages, M. Meibomius, 
■ far engaged : He undertook the- revifing of the Copy, 
the Correcting the Prels, the dire&ing and fleering the 
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