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Freinshemius followed him, and some of the subsequent editors, among them Ernesti, who observes he could see no reason why the images of the Livii should have been omitted at the funeral of Drusus; nor anybody else, except for the very strong and simple reason that the author of the Annals, being Bracciolini, was not acquainted with the fact, which must have been familiar to Tacitus, that the Livii, and not the Julii, were the great ancestors of Drusus.
Two months after he had written for Ptolemy's maps, Plutarch's Lives, and the works of Suetonius and other historians of the first Roman Emperors, he addressed another letter to his Florentine friend, Niccoli, dated the 8th of January, 1424, in which he hinted at no less a forgery than the whole of Livy's History, and if circumstances had been favourable to it, we should have, doubtless, had a composition so like the original, even so much more like than even what was afterwards honourably and admirably done by Freinshemius, as to have defied detection.
"However much I am busied, he writes to Freinshemius , I still preserve my affection for the Muses, and look upon them as the most agreeable of all Amusements." Ep. 402 p. 869. Ep. 915. p. 402. Ep. 909. p. 435. I call them, to speak modestly, conjectures , tho' I am persuaded most of them will appear to be well grounded."
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