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| (3) Unde cum in amore veritatis a pueritia mea continue sim nutritus, non sustinui questionem prefatam linquere indiscussam; sed placuit de ipsa verum ostendere, nec non argumenta facta contra dissolvere, tum veritatis amore, tum etiam odio falsitatis. Et ne livor multorum, qui absentibus viris invidiosis mendacia confingere solent, post tergum bene dicta transmutent, placuit insuper in hac cedula meis digitis exarata quod determinatum fuit a me relinquere, et formam totius disputationis calamo designare. | (3) Wherefore since I have been nurtured from my boyhood in the love of truth, I could not endure to abstain from discussing the aforesaid question, but determined to demonstrate the truth about it, and further to refute the arguments urged on the other side, in equal love of truth and hatred of falsehood. And lest the spleen of the many who are wont to foist lies, in their absence, upon those they hate, should pervert, behind my back, what I had rightly uttered, it was my further pleasure, in this attestation prepared by my own fingers, to leave a record of my conclusion, and to design with my pen the form of this whole disputation. |