KE 32753 -2616.281 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. BE it remembered, that on the thirtieth day of December, A. D. 1829, and in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hilliard & Brown, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:-"Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum Liber Primus et Selecta quædam Capita. Curavit Notulisque instruxit Carolus Folsom, A. M., Academiæ Harvardianæ olim Bibliothecarius."-In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; " and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, 'An act for the encourage-, ment of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: E. W. METCALF AND COMPANY, PREFACE. THIS selection from the History of Livy is published with particular reference to those Colleges and higher schools, in which the first Five Books have hitherto formed a part of the course of Latin studies. The editor, by his experience as an instructer in Harvard University, was led to observe that the volume in common use, though it contains some of the finest passages of this writer, is yet in great part uninteresting to young students. To such, many of the details, which are necessary to the completeness of the Roman annals, prove wearisome from their similarity, if not from their want of importance. And to say nothing of the injustice done to the author by taking arbitrarily the first five books of a History of infinite variety, and consisting, as he wrote it, of at least one hundred and forty books (from thirty-five of which we still have a choice), justice is thus hardly rendered to those who may never have an opportunity to read more of the work than is comprehended in their early studies, or whose reading of the whole may depend on the impression given by this part. Until he had principally made this selection, the editor was unable to learn that any book, having the same object, had been published; nor is he yet aware that any such is in use in Great Britain or in the South of Europe; but the -kindness of friends has furnished him with two, published in Germany in the course of the last century.* *Livius pro Prima Classe Gymnasiorum Scholarumquc Latinarum ita excerptus, ut intra Anni Spatium prælegi possit, et simul Historia in Connexione cum Fide, Ingenio, Stiloque Livii gustentur. A M. MARTINO FRIDER. SOERGEL, Gymnasii Martinei Brunsvicensis |