[Marginalia] Authorship of f116v squiggle, candidates

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It shows how both were fascinated with Greek. Kirchner directly writes his name in Greek. If I understand correctly, Aretius is a Greek form of Marti (the Latin Mars is the Greek Ares). It's weird that a few of the signatures appear to have a macron above U, so that it looks like Aretinus (?)

I think he's just writing "Aretij", on some of his published books (in Latin) he is named "Benedicti Aretii" on the cover and in some others I think I saw "Aretij" in print. Looks like he was in a lifelong search for a good enough alias