Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Histories of Caius Cornelius Tacitus: With Notes for Colleges
Tmi: text of this edition follows, for the most part, Orelli's, Zurich, 1848, which, being based on a new and most faithful recension of the Medicean ms., by his friend Baiter, may just lybe consideredasmarking a newera inthe historyof the text of Tacitus. In several passages, however, where he has needlessly departed from the ms., I have not hesitated to ad here to it in company with other editors, believing, that not unfrequently the most corrected copies are the less con'ec The various readings have been carefully compared through out, and, if important, are referred to in the notes.
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