THE WORKS OF HORACE: WITH ENGLISH NOTES. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, BY J. L. LINCOLN, PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN BROWN UNIVERSITY. FIFTH EDITION. NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY. M. DCCC. LVL *D53552 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF 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 43-27 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 independ ent 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. |