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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:37:32 +0200
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From: Mindaugas Strockis <Mindaugas.Strockis@flf.vu.lt>
Subject: Re: Modest historians

>Brian Sheridan asks
>Diodorus Siculus, in the General Proem, asks that any errors in his
>Bibliotheke be corecteced in the future by more able historians. I have
>been trying to find other instances of historians make similar requests and
>have as yet been unsuccessful. Any help from the Classics List would be
>much appreciated

An instance with a poet, although not with a historian. 

Hugh G. Evelyn White writes in his Introduction to Ausonius (Ausonius, Loeb
Classical Library, vol. I, page xxxv):

It was only after he had revised a poem to his satisfaction that Ausonius
"published" it. This was usually done by sending it to a friend with an
epistle prefixed, in which the author went through the polite farce (1) of
inviting the recipient to correct its faults and so let it live, or to
suppress it altogether (Ludus i. 1-4, 13-18).

Footnote (1) Ausonius, of course, would have been surprised and annoyed had
any of his correspondents taken him at his word.

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