Translator's note on the text
Translator's note on the text The published text of Quaestiones Disputatae de Virtutibus (Rome:
Marietti, ) has no critical apparatus and occasionally appears problematic or even clearly erroneous. Unfortunately the critical edition of the Leonine Commission is still in preparation, but I have been helped in this translation by the Commission's kindness in allowing me to consult their provisional text to assist with difficult passages. Where I have still been unable to make good sense of the printed text, I have sometimes resorted to speculative emendation of the text, but where I have done so I have marked this in the footnotes.
Because of the difficulties of rendering into English a very complex text that includes a high number of indefinite personal pronouns, it has sometimes been necessary for the sake of clarity to use non-inclusive languageinthetranslation.Readersshouldbeawarethereforethatmasculine forms of the third personal pronoun often refer inclusively to members of both sexes. The original Latin, unlike English, is usually neutral in this respect. xxxvi