Vigilance

Meaning

Lemma.

Vigilance appears in the printer’s emblem as the guardian of things. The supplied edition marks the phrase as emblem text, keeping it distinct from the treatise’s running argument. It resonates with the later praise of diligent inquiry but should not be attributed unqualifiedly as a technical definition by the author. Its separate paratextual status is important for an honest lexical account of the whole supplied section.