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Excerpt from Latin Selections: Being Specimens Of The Latin Language And Literature, From The Earliest Times To The End Of The Classical Period
Thb following compilation consists of specimens of Earl y Latin, and of selections from the writings of Latin authors from Livius Andronicus to Apuleius (250 B. - 160 arranged in chronological order. The attempt has been made not only to furnish mate rials for tracing the history of the Latin language through the periods of its growth, maturity, and decay, but also to exhibit the individual characteristics of the several writers, so far as this can be accomplished by detached passages, necessarily limited in number and length. 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.
