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Excerpt from Extracts From Martial: For the Use of the Humanity Classes in the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow; With an Introduction
The selections published by Mr Paley and by Mr Stephenson are excellent; but setting aside the question of price, neither edition covers exactly the ground we have traced out for ourselves, whether as regards the pieces omitted or those included. In the present collection we have attempted to include everything in the author's comments upon human life, that seemed most worth preserving for its wit, humour, sense, or pathos, as well as everything that in a marked degree throws light upon the poet's own life, character, and circumstances; upon the social conditions, manners, and customs of the day, whether in Rome or in the provinces; upon the history, the literature, and the current literary ideas of the time. We have omitted all pieces that are unsuitable for reading in a class: in addition, we have omitted everything that appeared to us to be of inferior merit, to be false in sentiment, or artificial in man ner, or merely to repeat in a less pointed way ideas already expressed in other epigrams. In a few cases the omission of one or two lines has enabled us to admit pieces of great general merit, which are thus rendered unobjectionable.
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