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Excerpt from Q. Horatii Flacci Poemata
The object of the present Work is to furnish the student with a text book 'of convenient size, and which may contain, at the same time, a commentary sufficiently ample for all his wants. The larger edition of Horace, which appeared in the Spring of 1830, has supplied all the requisite materials, and such selections have been made from it as seemed best calculated to answer the proposed end. It will be per ceived, upon examination, that a large portion of the preliminary matter has been thrown out from the present edition. This, however interesting to the more advanced scholar, could hardly be deemed of immediate importance to the young student, on his first acquaintance with the Venusian bad. The Excursions, also, that were inserted in various parts of the larger Work, have been rejected from this, on similar grounds, and their places have been supplied by notes of a concise form, wherever these were needed. The most marked emis sion, however, is in the case of the critical notes on the Various Readings. Their insertion in the larger edition was a mere matter of experiment, and, unfortunately for the cause of classical scholarship in our country, the experiment proved an unsuccessful one. Various Readings, and critical notes of any kind, are objects'of peculiar aver sion to a certain class of scholars among us, nor can they see any thing inviting ih those fields of exertion which have yielded so rich a harvest of praise to the learned of other climes. It is idle to talk of conjectural emendations, when those'whom you address are satisfied with any text, however erroneous and philological discussions come recommended by no charm, to minds that regard every deviation from the beaten track as leading into the wilds of unprofitable theory. The absence of critical notes, therefore, from the present edition, will, it is hoped, be pardoned by the enlightened scholar, should this fork ever enjoy the good fortune, -which was denied its less favoured predecessor, of being brought to the bar of learned and intelligent criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
