DALZEL'S

ANALECTA GRÆCA MINORA:

OR,

SELECT PASSAGES FROM GREEK AUTHORS,

ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF THE JUNIOR

CLASSES IN SCHOOLS.

A NEW EDITION, WITH ENGLISH NOTES.

BY

THE REV. J. T. WHITE, A.M.

OF C. C. C., OXFORD,

JUNIOR UPPER MASTER OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, LONDON,
EDITOR OF XENOPHON'S ANABASIS, ETC.

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PREFACE.

A LONG use of "Dalzel's Analecta Græca Minora in former years convinced the present editor of its value as a school-book. He found that the selections, of which it consists, were well adapted, by their interesting nature, to remove much of the unwillingness with which, in very many instances, a lesson is approached, merely because it is a lesson; and that, moreover, being taken from various sources, they supplied the means of obtaining a more extended acquaintance with the Greek language and its peculiar idioms, than could have been gained from the perusal of any single writer. At the same time he was impressed with the conviction that, as then published, it was susceptible of alterations calculated to increase its usefulness.

From circumstances, of which he did not at that time entertain even an idea, he has been entrusted with the charge of preparing the present edition for publication; and, as much subsequent reflection has convinced him that his former impressions were the result of correct views, he has now made those changes, which once he hoped, rather than expected, to see carried out.

The extracts from Lucian appearing to him unnecessarily lengthy, he has removed a portion of them from the Text, and supplied their place by about an equal amount of matter from Arrian and Ælian.

The notes, where it is not otherwise stated, are his own. He has framed them with the intention of helping to impart to the young student correct ideas of the structure of the Greek language, and to accustom him early to regard it with a critical eye; feeling satisfied in his own mind, that when these main points are not insisted on even from the very beginning, there will be too often found a lack of sound scholarship, where better things might justly have been expected, and would, under due culture, have undoubtedly been produced. At the same time he has not failed to direct attention to those points of history and geography, which demand at least a passing word from annotators; nor to elucidate those customs and manners of antiquity, which are either expressly mentioned, or to which allusion merely is made.

The information, which he has thus supplied, he has given in English, as being at once the most natural and the most profitable mode of conveyance; past experience having proved to him, in the use both of the former edition of Dalzel, and of other works having Latin notes, that whatever is dressed in a Latin garb is either wholly overlooked, or, at the best, unwillingly resorted to, and but partially comprehended. He imagines that most teachers have found, as he has, that the explanation of difficulties conveyed through such a medium needs itself to be explained.

To say more on this subject appears to him almost superfluous. Yet he would add, that, as English is the universally-used channel for communicating instruction to boys, English notes, which are, in effect, nothing else than a teacher's instructions reduced to print, are virtually the carrying-out of the principle upon which all teachers act. In his judgment, it will be time enough

to adopt the use of Latin notes in school-books when the Latin language shall be habitually employed in all intercourse between master and pupil; when these shall at once understand it better, and find it more adapted for accurately defining notions, communicating ideas, and imparting and receiving knowledge on difficult points generally, than their own mother-tongue.

The Lexicon placed at the end of the former edition of this work bore evident marks of having emanated from more than a single source. It has therefore been re-modelled, and arranged on one uniform plan. About 200 new words have also been added to it, partly to supply former omissions, partly to explain such words in the extracts from Arrian and Elian as do not occur in other portions of the work.

Christ's Hospital,

March, 1849.