Livy's use of the Middle Voice (referred to pp. 101, 119), his use of frequentatives (on which see note, p. 193), and on the actual state of Republican Rome in the fifth century B.C.; but it was found that an adequate treatment of the question of the Middle Voice would have outrun useful limits; while the topography of Rome is fully dealt with by Mommsen; and by E. H. Bunbury, M.A., in the Classical Museum. The appendix on Patria Potestas is substantially due to E. A. Eade, Esq., M.A., Scholar of New College, and of Lincoln's Inn, to whom I offer my grateful thanks-my own part in it being very small. The brief addenda to the notes deal with three points at somewhat greater length than seemed advisable in the body of a note; and I beg the reader to glance at the addenda before using the notes, and, if he will, refer them to their proper place in the course of his usage. The translations are not quite literal, and in at least three places I am quite uncertain whether I have apprehended what Livy means. As to the references, I have taken care to verify them all, and beg indulgence for any oversight. Of Livy's style nothing is said beyond the allusions to it in the notes. There is very little fresh to be said about it, unless one were able to indicate what the ancient critic meant by Livy's Patavinitas. It is very remarkable that ages of criticism have not been able to discover this evanescent something, so obvious to contemporary readers of taste. Neither has anything been said of his biography, about which little is known, and that little soon picked up from a classical dictionary. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, |