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HORATIUS RESTITUTUS:

OR

THE BOOKS OF

HORACE

ARRANGED

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

ACCORDING TO THE SCHEME OF DR. BENTLEY,

FROM THE TEXT OF GESNER, CORRECTED

AND IMPROVED.

WITH

A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION,

VERY MUCH ENLARGED,

ON

THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORKS, ON THE LOCALITIES, AND ON

THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THAT POET,

BY JAMES TATE, M.A.

SECOND EDITION.

TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED,

AN ORIGINAL

TREATISE ON THE METRES OF HORACE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN AND CRADOCK,

PATERNOSTER ROW,

1837.

G. Woodfall, Printer, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL GREY,

WHOSE UNWEARIED SERVICES,

AS AN ENLIGHTENED AND PATRIOTIC STATESMAN,

AND AT LENGTH UNEXAMPLED SUCCESS,

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF AN APPROVING SOVEREIGN,

AS A WISE AND TEMPERATE REFORMER,

WILL FIND AN IMPERISHABLE RECORD IN THE MEMORY OF HIS

GRATEFUL COUNTRYMEN,

THIS EDITION OF

HORATIUS RESTITUTUS

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

TO COMMEMORATE ONE OF THE NOBLEST AND KINDEST ACTS OF