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Tacitus — continued. “We have endeavoured, with the aid of recent editions, thoroughly to elucidate the text, explaining the various difficulties, critical and gramma&shy;tical, ''which occur to the student. We have consulted throughout, besides'' the older commentators, the editions of Ritter and Orelli, but we are under special obligations to the labours of the recent German editors, Wex and Kritz” Two Indexes are appended, (1) of Proper Names, (2) of ''Words and Phrases explained. “A model of careful editing,” says the'' , “being at once compact, complete, and correct, as well as neatly printed and elegant in style.”

The translators have sought to produce such a version as may satisfy scholars who demand a faithful rendering of the original, and English readers who are offended by the baldness and frigidity which commonly ''disfigure translations. The treatises are accompanied by Introductions,'' ''Notes, Maps, and a chronological Summary. The says of'' this work that it is “a version at once readable and exact, which may be perused with pleasure by all, and consulted with advantage by the classical student.”

The first object of this book is to make these lively pictures of old Greek ''manners better known to English readers. But as the Editor and Trans&shy;lator'' has been at considerable pains to procure a trustworthy text, and has recorded the results of his critical labours in an Introduction, Notes, and Appendices, it is hoped that the work will prove of value even to ''the scholar. “We must not omit to give due honour to Mr. Jebb's trans&shy;lation,'' ''which is as good as translation can be. . . . Not less commendable'' are the execution of the Notes and the critical handling of the Text.” — . The speaks of it as “a very handy