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Edited by Thomas Chase, L.L.D., (Harvard); George Stuart, A.M., E. P. Crowell, D.D., (Amherst); and A. P. Montague, A.M., Ph. D. (Columbian University). Revised by F. H. Lee, University of Pennsylvania), and B. W. Mitchell, Ph. D. (Princeton University). The important features of the series are, (1) The purity of the texts. (2) The clearness and conciseness of the notes and their adaptation to the wants of students. (3) The quality of paper and printing. (4) The convenience of the shape and size. (5) The low price at which the volumes are sold.

Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-IV, with Notes and
Vocabulary, (new edition),

Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-VII, with Notes and

Vocabulary, (new edition),

Virgil's Aeneid, First Six Books, with Notes and
Vocabulary, (new edition),

Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes and
Vocabulary,

Cicero's Thirteen Orations, with Notes and Vocabu-
lary, (new edition),

Cicero's Orations Against Catiline, aiso the Oratios
for the Poet Archias, for the Manilian Law, an
for Marcellus, with Notes and Vocabulary, (new
edition).

Cicero de Senectute et de Amicitia, with Notes and
Vocabulary, (the only text published with a
Vocabulary),

Cicero de Officiis, with Notes,

Cicero de Oratore, Book I, with Notes,

Cicero de Oratore, Book I, II and III, with Notes,
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, with Notes,

Horace's Odes, Satires and Epistles, with Notes,
(new edition),

Horace (Selections from) with Notes and Vocabulary,
(the only text published with a Vocabulary),
Sall st's Catiline et Jugurtha, with Notes and Vocabu
lary, (the only text published containing both
Catiline and the Jugurthine War),

Livy, Books 1-21-22, with Notes and Vocabulary,
(the only text-book published with a Vocabulary)
Cornelius Nepos, with Notes and Vocabulary (new
edition),

Terence, Andria and Adelphoe with Notes,

Tacitus Germania and Agricola and Dialogues de
Oratoribus, with Notes,

Juvenal's Satires and Fifth Satire of Persius, with
Notes,

Ovid's Metamorphoses (15 Books), with Notes and
Vocabulary,

Pliny's Select Letters, with Notes,

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THOMAS CHASE, LL.D. (HARVARD)

LATE PRESIDent of Haverford College; Member OF THE AMERICAN
ORIENTAL AND AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES ETC.

REVISED BY

BENJAMIN W. MITCHELL (PRINCETON)

PROFESSOR OF the Latin LANGUAGE AND Literature, AND HEAD OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES IN THE
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, PHiladelphia

NOBLE AND NOBLE, Publishers

76 FIFTH AVENUE

NEW YORK

PA6452
A3 C4

1925

Copyright, 1905. by HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE
Copyright, 1925. by NOBLE & NOBLE.

Printed in the U. S. A.

THE

PREFACE.

HE text of Livy, though handed down by the manuscripts in an imperfect and unsatisfactory state, has been in a great degree rescued and restored by the critical labors of many illustrious philologists. Foremost are the great names of JOHN FREDERICK GRONOV and JOHN NICHOLAS MADVIG; but around them clusters a brilliant array of scholars hardly inferior to these great chiefs, among whom Crevier, Drakenborch, Kreyssig, Bekker, Alschefski, Haupt, Hertz, and above all Weissenborn, cannot pass unmentioned. The work of an editor is made both easier and more difficult by so many and such guides: easy indeed when stars of the first magnitude shine in conjunction, but hard sometimes when they are opposed. There is, it is true, one in this list, whom a man might follow even with his eyes shut, and feel assured that he would never be led far astray. The unrivalled sagacity with which the great Danish philologist scents out the true reading in a tangled maze of hopeless obscurity is one of the marvels of our later day. It is hard to resist the fascination of such genius; yet, with due diffidence, I may say that in some cases I have been less certain that the words MADVIG gives are those which Livy actually wrote, than that they are the best possible expression in Latin of the thought Livy wished to convey. No man for the last thousand years has been a more 916629

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