Note 2 — ANSWER TO THE DISSERTATION OF MONSIEUR DE LA MONNOYE ON THE WORK ENTITLED “THE THREE IMPOSTORS.”

The work opens with a letter, the first lines of which are as follows; “I will send you as soon as possible a copy of the work on the three most celebrated deceivers of mankind, a work written at my request by a very learned man, and transcribed by my order for my library; and along with it another work written in the same pure and polished style, for, &c.”2 The third was also a Latin manuscript without a title, commencing with a quotation from Cicero.