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In discussing the issue of the authorship of Daukša’s Postilė, some scholars raise the question of the unevenness of the language of this work and the ambiguity of some corrigenda. One of such corrigenda to give rise to various linguistic hypotheses – aimieus to łáimieus – should be considered simply a mistake of the person who corrected the mistake. In fact, the correction had to be done in the opposite direction – łaimiaus to aimieus, but pages were mixed up due to an oversight, and page 88 was indicated instead of page 78. This mistake was very likely made by Daukša himself and not by the typesetter at the printer’s. If the latter were the case, the old and not matching indication of the line (38) would have remained next to the wrong page number. However, the corrigendum indicates line 33 of page 88: presumably, when Daukša was revising the corrigendum, he found one of the two given forms and made corresponding corrections without giving much thought to them.