text:  Perhaps no part of the entire work is more characteristic of the vanity and blindness of the writer than his preface to this second part where he gravely takes his guide Goropius to task for founding so large a work as the _Becceselana_ on so small a foundation as the "_bec_" of Psammetichus and regrets that his predecessor did not confine himself to etymons more consistent with the local and personal characteristics of his several subjects