ALLYN AND BACON'S COLLEGE LATIN SERIES UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF CHARLES E. BENNETT AND JOHN C. ROLFE HANDBOOK OF LATIN INSCRIPTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF BY W. M. LINDSAY, M.A. FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD Boston ALLYN AND BACON 1897 PREFACE. WHILE writing my Short Historical Latin Grammar, I often wished that there was a suitable collection of specimens of Latin, chronologically arranged, to which the student might be referred. The proposal of Messrs. Allyn and Bacon, that a Handbook of Latin Inscriptions illustrative of the history of the language should be compiled for their educational series, was therefore very welcome. From merely turning over the pages of a book of this kind one will sometimes learn more than from the most elaborate array of rules, just as the successive pictures of a panorama are often more instructive than the showman's lecture. In a few cases, where it seemed advisable, documents which cannot strictly be called 'Inscriptions' have been included (Nos. 4, 65, 67, 78, 83, 84). The expression of long i by i with an apex, instead of by the tall form of the letter, in Chap. III., is a concession to typographical convenience. OXFORD, ENGLAND, August, 1897. iii W. M. LINDSAY. |