M. TULLII CICERONIS ORATIONES. WITH A COMMENTARY BY GEORGE LONG. VOL. I. VERRINARUM LIBRI SEPTEM. LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO. AVE MARIA LANE; 1851. PREFACE. THE text of this edition of Cicero's orations against Verres approaches nearest to that of Zumpt's edition of 1831, which is entitled, "M. Tullii Ciceronis Verrinarum Libri Septem. Ad fidem codicum manu scriptorum recensuit et explicavit Car. Timoth. Zumptius." The variations from the text of Zumpt are indicated in the notes. I have not intentionally omitted to notice any important variation; but I have omitted to notice some which are of no importance at all, or matters perfectly indifferent. I used for printing from, after I had corrected it to suit my purpose, the English reprint of Zumpt, third edition, 1847. I supposed that the third edition of a work, printed in 1847, would not be a reprint of Zumpt's first and minor edition, but that it would contain all the improvements of the larger edition of 1831. I soon discovered, however, that this was not so; and I merely mention the circumstance because there are a few readings in Zumpt's larger edition, in the Divinatio, which I prefer to those which I have retained. They are, however, of very little importance. The most important differences between the English reprint of Zumpt and his larger edition, occur in the orations which come after the Divinatio. The whole amount of difference between the English reprint and Zumpt's larger edition is con a |