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Excerpt from Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae Historicae Libri Qui Supersunt e Recensione Petri Wesselingii, Vol. 1: Cum Interpretatione Latina Laur. Rhodomani Atque Annotationibus Variorum Integris Indicibusque Locupletissimis
I o D 0 B U 5, ex Agyrio urbe Siciliae ortus, non ab ea, utpote quae ignobilior eftet fortafie) fed ab ipfa regione Sicilia cognomen accepit; nec enim 'ayvog, fed seazcémg cognominatus fuit. Vulgo Diodorus Siculus Latine fcriben tibus appellatur; quod Siculum Latini indifie renter tam e::csa1cérgv, quam ziksàòv, ut Italum tam 'iraazcérqv, quam 'imhòv, vocaffe exifiimentur...pli nius Diodorum fimpliciter nuncupat, non addi to a natione cognomento. Sic Iufiinus Mattyi, item Arifiophanis fcholiaftes. At Eufebius alicu bi addit, alicubi omittit. Agyrium autem no mino illam civitatern Siciliae, patriam Diodori, potiùs quam Argyrium, aut Angyrium: (quae duae le&iones m nofiris habent... exemplaribus) cum alias, tum eundem Pliniurn ac Stephanum fequens. Porro fe inde ortum tefiatur ipfe in pr'ooemio totiu's operis, pag. 17 huins volumi.
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