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ISBN13: 9780217922142
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: style of eloquence, especially the latter; and they may, it is conceived, be read with advantage at the beginning of an under-graduate course. In forming the text of the present work, the editor has taken Ernesti's for his basis, but without any slavish adherence to the opinions and decisions of that distinguished commentator. Wherever a reading presented itself, calculated in the editor's opinion to throw more light on the meaning of Cicero than the received lection could impart, he has not hesitated to adopt it; and he flatters himself that the result of his labours, in this department, will prove acceptable to all who are qualified to pass an opinion upon his efforts. The commentary, it will be perceived, is far from being a scanty one. If there be any author that stands in need of full and copious illustration, it un doubtedly is Cicero in the orations which have come down to us. The train of thought must be continually laid open to the young scholar, to enable him to appreciate, in their full force and beauty, these brilliant memorials of other days; and the allusions, in which the orator is so fond of indulging, must be chapter{{Section 4carefully and fully explained. Unless this be done, the speeches of Cicero become a dead letter, and time is only wasted in their perusal. The editor is induced to make these remarks, from the conviction, that the system of commenting, which he has pursued throughout the present work, will, as in the case of his previous efforts, be condemned by some on the ground of its affording too much aid to the learner. The truth is, however, the editor had no alternative left him. If there be any one cause, which has tended more powerfully than the rest to bring classical studies into disrepute among us, it is the utter incompetency of ma...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217922142 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217922147 |
| Weight | 1.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $30.71 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 374 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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