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The text is taken from the 1912 Cambridge edition of Caius’sComplete Works. The editor’s general introduction says:

In this volume no attempt has been made to produce a facsimile reprint.Even if such a design had been entertained, the great variety of form inwhich the original editions were issued would have made it impossible tocarry out the re-issue with any uniformity. Obvious misprints have beencorrected, but where a difference in spelling in the same work or on thesame page—e.g. baccalarius, baccalaureus—isclearly due to the varying practice of the writer and not to theprinter, the words have been left as they stood in the original. On theother hand the accents in the very numerous Greek quotations have beencorrected.

Numbers in the right margin mark the pagination of this 1912 edition.Numbers in parentheses—here shown in the left margin—wereprinted in the gutter; they probably represent pages or leaves in the1570 original.

The numerous illustrations (icones) mentioned in the text werenot included in the Complete Works. They are also absent from theonly other readily available edition, London 1729. The illustration istaken from elsewhere in the Complete Works.

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