JAY-PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LITERATURE IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE, AND RECTOR OF THOROUGHLY REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED, BY GEORGE B. WHEELER, A.B., OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG AND Co., 85, QUEEN STREET, EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE present edition of Dr. Anthon's Cicero has undergone a careful revision; I have lessened very considerably the amount of actual translation, and have excluded all references to books which were not generally accessible; or those, the chief point of which was already included in the notes. I have filled up the space thus gained by adding those observations, &c., the absence of which I considered a deficiency in the book. The amount of these additions may be at once ascertained, as all are included within brackets, thus []. Yet in very many instances I have altered the Doctor's language when it appeared to be too high-flown or turgid; to mark all such alterations would have been endless trouble, and would serve no useful purpose. I have persuaded the publisher to add to this Edition two Orations; that in Defence of Milo, and the Second Philippic; for the selected and original notes on these Orations I am solely responsible. I ought to add that, throughout, I have corrected the text to accordance with that of Orelli, except where I thought him to be in error. For all deviations from the common reading the reasons will be found in the foot-notes. 28, Trin. Coll. Dublin, 1853. G. B. WHEELER, A.B. |