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The text is quite corrupt, but I insert it as I have emended it from a comparison of three copies.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

During the last two years, apart from much else, I have emended the Letters of St. Jerome, obelizing what was false and spurious and explaining the obscure passages with notes.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan