Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE MORE than thirty years have passed since I had the privilege of revising and editing for the Syndics of the University Press the Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, which was left in a nearly finished form by the late Mr Edward Meredith Cope, formerly Senior Fellow and Tutor of Trinity. It was under the advice of two other distinguished Fellows of that College, Mr Munro and Mr Jebb, that Mr Cope's brother did me the honour of inviting me to revise and complete the work, and it has now fallen to my lot to prepare for the press another posthumous work connected with the same subject, the Translation of the Rhetoric left in manuscript by one of the admirable scholars above mentioned, the late Sir Richard Jebb. From memoranda found in various parts of the manuscript, it appears that the translation was begun 'about August 20, 1872, ' that the first two Books were finished on March 22, and the third on May 26, 1873. Thus, in the period of its preparation, it falls between the date of the translation of the Characters of Theophrastns (1870), and that of the publication of The Attic Orators (1876). The first two Books of the Rhetoric were among the set subjects for the Classical Tripos of 1874 and 1875, and, as an Assistant Tutor of Trinity, Mr Jebb lectured on all three Books during "3 the academical year 1872-3, and again in 1873-4. The lectures were open to members of other Colleges, and among those who attended them was one of the present Syndics of the Press, who still retains a vivid recollection of the clear and vigorous English in which the text was then rendered. It was with a view to this course of lectures that a considerable number of original and selected notes was written out, followed (in the case of Book I) by a
