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Excerpt from The Trachiniae of Sophocles: Critically Revised, With the Aid of Mss. Newly Collated, and Explained
The edition of the present play is on the same plan as that of its predecessor the Philoctetes. My chief attention of course has been given to ascertaining the readings of the few extant mss.; and, as these have been very carelessly collated by previous editors, I have thought it advisable to make a fresh accurate collation of some of them myself, and the read ings of one ms. (k) I have given for the first time. My next object has been to give in a concise and convenient form the conjectural emendations which have been made by critics both of our own and other countries, and the explanations of the best editors; to which I have appended my own opinions. The reader is thus furnished with a continuous synoptical materia critica and commentary upon our author, so as to be able to dispense with the necessity for having his attention distracted by having constantly to refer to other editions. In order to make this edition as complete as possible, I have carefully studied the labours of my predecessors up to the most recent date; and I think I may venture to say that there is little good to be found in other editions which I have not extracted and digested in the present one.
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