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BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirtieth day of November, A. D. 1830, and in the 1 fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, HILLIARD, GRAY, LIT AND WILKINS, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"M. T. Ciceronis Orationes Quædam Selectæ, Notis illustratæ. In Usum Acade Exoniensis. Editio stereotypa, Tabulis Analyticis instructa."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Ac the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the thors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act for the encouragemen learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprie of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits therec the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

NO. W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachuse

STEREOTYPED AT THE

BOSTON TVRD AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

TO

BENJAMIN ABBOT, LL. D.,

PRINCIPAL OF PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY,

THIS EDITION

IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY

THE EDITOR.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

THE Second Edition of this book having been revised by the Editor of the present, in the year 1811, under the direction and with the assistance of the respected head of the institution for the use of which it was originally prepared, and having obtained the reputation of an accurate classical school-book, it was with regret that those who felt a personal concern in that edition, saw a third and surreptitious one make its appearance, deformed with the grossest errors, and, by the absence of all intelligent care, doing discredit to the classical school with the name of which it was associated.

At the instance, therefore, of his venerated friend, Dr. Abbot, the Editor undertook to publish a Fourth Edition, which should be less unworthy of the Roman orator, and of that seat of liberal discipline, so fondly remembered by so many of the friends of good learning in the community.

As to the Text, that of the edition of Cicero's works by Dr. Carey (among what are commonly called the Regent's Pocket Classics), which is derived from Olivet and Ernesti, has been adopted, as by far the best for a school-book; since it not only affords the results of the labors of modern criticism upon this author; but for the distribution into paragraphs, the punctuation, and, in general, the judicious employment of the resources of the printing art to illustrate the sense, is probably unequalled. The words included in brackets are such as are considered to be spurious, or are rendered doubtful by being variously written in different MSS., or for some other reason are a subject of disagreement among critics. No change has been made in this text, except in conforming the orthography of certain words to that of the dictionaries and grammars in common use in this country, and distinguishing by accents certain equivocal words. The lines have been numbered in the margin, as well for the sake of disencumbering the body of the text of figures referring to the notes, as for the convenience of the instructer in exercising his pupils in grammatical analysis.

The Notes, according to the good usage which now prevails in books of this sort, have been placed by themselves at the end of the volume, that they may be consulted only when needed, in learning a lesson, and not when the pupil should rely on his memory, in reciting it. Some of the

explanatory notes were rendered unnecess by the improved state of

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