LATIN TEXTS Edited by Thomas Chase, L.L.D., (Harvard); George Stuart, A.M., E. P. Crowell, D.D., (Amherst); and A. P. Montague, A.M., Ph. D. (Columbian University). Revised by F. H. Lee, University of Pennsylvania), and B. W. Mitchell, Ph. D. (Princeton University). The important features of the series are, (1) The purity of the texts. (2) The clearness and conciseness of the notes and their adaptation to the wants of students. (3) The quality of paper and printing. (4) The convenience of the shape and size. (5) The low price at which the volumes are sold. Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-IV, with Notes and Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-VII, with Notes and Vocabulary, (new edition), Virgil's Aeneid, First Six Books, with Notes and Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes and Cicero's Thirteen Orations, with Notes and Vocabu- Cicero's Orations Against Catiline, aiso the Oratios Cicero de Senectute et de Amicitia, with Notes and Cicero de Officiis, with Notes, Cicero de Oratore, Book I, with Notes, Cicero de Oratore, Book I, II and III, with Notes, Horace's Odes, Satires and Epistles, with Notes, Horace (Selections from) with Notes and Vocabulary, Livy, Books 1-21-22, with Notes and Vocabulary, Terence, Andria and Adelphoe with Notes, Tacitus Germania and Agricola and Dialogues de Juvenal's Satires and Fifth Satire of Persius, with Ovid's Metamorphoses (15 Books), with Notes and Pliny's Select Letters, with Notes, THOMAS CHASE, LL.D. (HARVARD) LATE PRESIDent of Haverford College; Member OF THE AMERICAN REVISED BY BENJAMIN W. MITCHELL (PRINCETON) PROFESSOR OF the Latin LANGUAGE AND Literature, AND HEAD OF THE NOBLE AND NOBLE, Publishers 76 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK PA6452 1925 Copyright, 1905. by HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE Printed in the U. S. A. THE PREFACE. HE text of Livy, though handed down by the manuscripts in an imperfect and unsatisfactory state, has been in a great degree rescued and restored by the critical labors of many illustrious philologists. Foremost are the great names of JOHN FREDERICK GRONOV and JOHN NICHOLAS MADVIG; but around them clusters a brilliant array of scholars hardly inferior to these great chiefs, among whom Crevier, Drakenborch, Kreyssig, Bekker, Alschefski, Haupt, Hertz, and above all Weissenborn, cannot pass unmentioned. The work of an editor is made both easier and more difficult by so many and such guides: easy indeed when stars of the first magnitude shine in conjunction, but hard sometimes when they are opposed. There is, it is true, one in this list, whom a man might follow even with his eyes shut, and feel assured that he would never be led far astray. The unrivalled sagacity with which the great Danish philologist scents out the true reading in a tangled maze of hopeless obscurity is one of the marvels of our later day. It is hard to resist the fascination of such genius; yet, with due diffidence, I may say that in some cases I have been less certain that the words MADVIG gives are those which Livy actually wrote, than that they are the best possible expression in Latin of the thought Livy wished to convey. No man for the last thousand years has been a more 916629 |