THE HISTORIES OF CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS. WITH NOTES FOR COLLEGES BY W. S. TYLER, Professor of Languages in Amherst College. One volume, 12mo. $1,00. The text of this edition follows, for the most part, Orelli's, Zurich, 148, which, being based onnew and most faithful recension of the Medicean MS., by his friend Baiter, may justly be con sidered as marking a new era in the history of the text of Tacitus. In several passages, however, where he has needlessly departed from the MS., I have not hesitated to adhere to it in com, any with other editors, believing, that not unfrequently "the most corrected copies are the less correct. The various realings have been carefully compared throughout, and, if important, are referred to in the notes. The editions which have been most consulted, whether in the criticism <f the text or in he preparation of the notes, are, besides Orelli's, those of Walther, Halle, 1831; Ruperti, Hanover 1839; and Düderlein, Halle, 1847. *** It will be seen, that there are not unfrequent references to my edition of the Germania and Agricola. These are not of such a nature, as to render this incomplete without that, or essentially dependent upon it. Still, if both editions are used, it will be found advantageous to read the Germania and Agricola first. The Treatises were written in that order, and in that order they best illustrate the history of the author's mind. The editor has found in his experience as a teacher that students generally read them in that way with more facility and pleasure, and he has con. structed his notes accordingly. It is hoped, that the notes will be found to contain not only the grammatical, but likewise all the geographical, archæological and historical illustrations, that are necessary to render the author intelligible. The editor has at least endeavored to avoid the fault, which Lord Bacon says "is over usual in annotations and commentaries, viz., to blanch the obscure places, and discourse upon the plain." But it has been his constant, not to say his chief aim, to carry students beyond the dry details of grammar and lexicography, and introduce them into a familiar acquaintance and lively sympathy with the author and his times, and with that great empire, of whose degeneracy and decline in its beginnings he has bequeathed to us so profound and instructive a history. The Indexes have been prepared with much labor and care, and, it is believed, will add materially to the value of the work.-Extract from Preface. THE GERMANIA AND AGRICOI A OF CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS. WITH NOTES FOR COLLEGES. BY W. S. TYLER, Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages in Amherst College. One very neat volume, 12mo. 62 cents. "We welcome the book as a useful addition to the classical literature of our country. It is very rrectly and elegantly prepared and printed. Thirteen pages are occupied by a well-written Life f Tacitus, in which not merely outward events are narrated, but the character of the histor.an, both as a man and a writer, is minutely and faithfully drawn. The notes to each of the treatises are introduced by a general critique upon the merits and matter of the work. The body of the notes is drawn up with care, learning, and judgment. Points of style and grammatical construc tions, and historical references, are ably illustrated. We have been struck with the elegant precision which marks these notes; they hit the happy medium between the too much of some commentators, and the too little of others."-North American Review. Among the numerous classical Professors who nave highly commended and introduced this volame are FELTON of Howard, LINCOLN of Brown University, CROSBY of Dartmouth, COLEMAN of Priton, NORTH of Hamilton PACKARD of Bowdoin. OWEN of New-York, CHAMPLI Of Water le, &c., &c. 32 J. L. LINCOLN, PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LIBRARIES NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. PREFACE. THE text of this edition of Horace is that of Orelli, as it exists in his second edition, published in two successive volumes in 1843 and 1844; the comparatively few readings of Orelli, which have not been adopted, are given at the foot of the page, with his name attached to them. As will be seen, the most important various readings are also given in foot-notes; a plan which, it is believed, will, so far as it has been well executed, meet with the approbation of scholars and teachers. In preparing the Notes, I have derived invaluable aid from the edition of Orelli, already mentioned, and from the excellent work of Dillenburger, in many respects a model of a school edition of a classical author, published first in 1843, and, in a revised form, in 1848. These editions I have had constantly before me, and have freely consulted; and the obligations I am conscious of owing them are so great and various, that I cannot specify them in detail, and can adequately state them only by a general acknowledgment. At the same time, it is not improper to say, that what I have gained from these editors, I have not appropriated by mere translation or compilation, but have so modified and changed by independent examination and study, that I deem myself entitled to consider it, in some sense at least, my own; and, moreover, that a large part of the Notes is solely the result of my professional labors and experience. The method which I have aimed to pursue in the preparation of the Notes is the same as that which I followed in my edition of Livy, modified only by the character of the present author, and by the fact that the reading of his works belongs to a later stage of the course of study in our schools and colleges. While I have endeavored to keep in view the study of the language in all its bearings, it has been a cherished object to take advantage of the means so variously and richly furnished by Horace for promoting the literary culture of the student. I have sought to explain only real difficulties, and these chiefly by suggestion and reference, and to give such and so much aid, as may at once stimulate and reward the pupil's industrious efforts; and also not to supersede or interfere with the course of direct instruction and illustration which every good teacher is accustomed to follow with his classes. The commentary on the Epistle to the Pisos, or the Art of Poetry, is fuller and more extended than in any other part of the work; a circumstance naturally occasioned by the peculiar character and merits of that celebrated piece. Of the editions I have consulted besides those already mentioned, the following are the only ones which it is necessary to name the two of Düntzer, the one in four vols., 12mo, 1840-44, and the other in one volume, 8vo., 1849; 'Wüstemann's Heindorf's, of the Satires, 1843; Schmid's, of the Epistles, 1828-30; Th. Obbarius's, of the Odes, 1848; S. Obbarius's, of the First Book of the Epistles, 1837-47; Lübker's, of the first three Books of the Odes, 1841; Girdlestone and Osborne's, London, 1848; and Keightley's, of the Satires and the Epistles, London, 1848. |