Horatius Flaccus, Quintus QUINTI HORATII FLACCI OPERA OMNIA THE WORKS OF HORACE WITH A COMMENTARY BY E. C. WICKHAM, M.A. MASTER OF WELLINGTON COLLEGE, AND FORMERLY FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD VOL. II THE SATIRES, EPISTLES, AND DE ARTE POETICA Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1891 [All rights reserved] PREFACE TO VOLUME II. I HAVE to express to the Delegates of the Press and to the kind purchasers of the first volume of this edition my regret for the long but unavoidable delay which has intervened in the completion of the work. That it is completed now I owe to the unstinted and unselfish help of my friend Mr. A. O. Prickard, Fellow of New College. I desired at one time that the volume should appear in our joint names, and had obtained the sanction of the Delegates to this arrangement; but we found the difficulties of joint work too great, in view of the impossibility of our being much together; and therefore, although a first draft of the notes on the later Epistles was prepared by Mr. Prickard, I have ultimately rewritten these, and made myself responsible for the whole. At the same time I cannot overstate the help which I have received from him in this part of the volume, and indeed in suggestions and criticisms upon the whole of it. With respect to the text I have little to add to what I wrote, I hope with proper modesty, in the introduction to Vol. I. Keller's 'Epilegomena,' published in 1879-1880, has added to the obligation which he and his colleague have laid upon all students |