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# Title: Monumenta Paderbornensia (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 83)
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AD LECTOREM.
ArIs praestantissimos historicorum libros, quosa(siduo
volverent, sibicomites esse roluerunt. Quo aspectu
Alexander Imperacor bellis etiam ad Rhenum geltis,
_ inhrasprovincias destinatis clarus, 10ga militix que
consiliisliteratos adhibebat, es mavime eos, qui histo. Lamp. in
rias noverant. Ec jam ille alexandrum Masnum
promitcebatRomanis, ni jurenem militaris furor ad
Moguntiam trucidaslet. Ilaec illa senatus, populi-
que Romani acclamatio: Ouis melius quam literatus roxiseus in
imperat: Pacicus is erat Imperator, qui ob id Corneli-Lacit.
um Tacitum scriptorem historiae Auoustae, quod paren-
tem suum eundem diceret, in omnibus bibliothecis eol.
locari jussit: Nam is vere Ccriptor est, qui in castris mi- Lipsius
licem, in aulis politicum, in Kepublicacirem, in omnt Tacit.
praes. in
businteriorem Principum vicam Format. Sed Chri-
Ctiani Principis, ex Christianihominis, ex togalago-
queimorelisioli riri normam vivendi expolcis, dc a
quibus rectius intchriusque disces, quam vel ex lacra-
rum licerarummonumentis, vel ex Flitoria Ecclelia-
ltica, veliis scriptoribus, qui Christianorum R egum ac
Principum auc lanctorum virorum res geltas nobis
contignarunt. Nec dirino consilio instituroque haec
pars vacat: Ouorlum enim Deus hiltorias Regum et
Principum Flebraei populi scribi voluit, _ ut scribe.
rentur dictatoradsticit, nisi ut ex bonorum Principum
tactis Caluraria documenta, ex malorum Facinoribus,
dirinae jultitix vindicta que exempla orbis _ posteri
asexciperet. Oua res e PrasulesFcclelix, e Princi
DCS
Alexandro