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THE SATIRES
OF
A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
EDITED BY
BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE, Ph.D. (Göttingen), LL.D.,
PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1875.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PREFACE.
The text of this edition of Persiusis in the main that of Jahn’s last recension (1868). The few changes arediscussed in the Notes and recorded in the Critical Appendix.
In the preparation of the Notes I have made large use of Jahn’sstandard edition, without neglecting the commentaries of Casaubon,König, and Heinrich, or the later editions by Macleane, Pretor, andConington, or such recent monographs on Persius as I have been able toprocure. Special obligations have received special acknowledgment.
My personal contributions to the elucidation of Persius are tooslight to warrant me in following the prevalent fashion and cataloguingthe merits of my work under the modest guise of aims and endeavors.I shall be contenf, if I have succeeded in making Persius lessdistasteful to the general student; more than content, if those who havedevoted long and patient study toivthis difficult author shall accord me the credit of an honest effort tomake myself acquainted with the poet himself as well as with his chiefcommentators.
In compliance with the wish of the distinguished scholar at whoseinstance I undertook this work, Professor Charles Short, of ColumbiaCollege, New York, I have inserted references to my Latin Grammarand to the Grammar of Allen and Greenough, here and there to Madvig.
B. L. Gildersleeve.
University of Virginia,February, 1875.
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