The President de Thou was very well pleased with _Capella_.

[32]Casaubon declared that whatever high idea he might have of Grotius' labour, the success exceeded his hopes.

[33]Vossius, in fine, after assuring Grotius that he had very happily restored _Capella_, compares the editor to Erasmus; and affirms that the whole world could not produce a man of greater learning than Grotius[34].
The more we consider this work, the greater difficulty we have to believe it to have been executed by a boy.

We would sometimes be inclined to think the great Scaliger had a hand in it; but this is only a conjecture: that Grotius was assisted by his father is very certain; he tells us so himself.
Some perhaps will be glad to know how Grotius managed with the booksellers: for even little details that relate to famous men yield a pleasure.

He never took money for the copy, though, he tells us, some people of good fortune were not so delicate: but he asked a hundred books on large paper handsomely bound, to make presents to his friends; it being unjust, he said, that while he served the public and enriched the booksellers, he should injure his own fortune.
FOOTNOTES: [32] Ep.Gr.3.p.