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Excerpt from An English Commentary on the Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices, and Troades of Euripides: With the Scanning of Each Play, From the Latest and Best Authorities The two main arguments against its authenticity are, that certain words and constructions and epic licenses occur in it which are not found in the other plays of Euripides, and, secondly, that the plot is tame and deficient in tragic inter est. To t...

Excerpt from An Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, Vol. 2: With Copious Explanatory Exercises, in Which All the Important Principles of Greek Syntax Are Fully Elucidated Tee present work forms the concluding portion of the Greek Lessons, the first part of which has already been for some time before the public. The object of the editor, in publishing this volume, has been, to make the student more fully acquainted, than could be done in ...

Excerpt from The Æneïd of Virgil: With English NotesPublius virgilius maro was born at the village of Andes, a few miles distant from Mantua, about 70 B. 0. His father was of low birth, having been, according to some authorities, a potter or brickmaker, and, according to others, the hireling of a travelling merchant named Maius, or Magus. He so ingiratiated himself, however, with his master, that he received his daughter Maia in marriage, and ...

Excerpt from Sallut's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline: With an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes The biographical account of Sallust. And the sketch of his writings, which have been given in the previous editions under the ordinary form, now assume the cue: acter of an imaginary conversation, a mode of impart in g information which the editor has recently adopted in a course of college-lectures on Ancient L...

Excerpt from A System of Ancient and Mediaeval Geography: For the Use of Schools and Colleges Penny Cyclopaedia, 8vo. London, 1833-1846, 29 vols. Prichard, Researches into the Physical History of Mankind. London, 1841-1847. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from Cæsar's Commentaries on the Gallic War: And the First Book of the Greek Paraphrase, With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, Etc, , And Historical, Geographical, and Archæological IndexesThe wood-cuts, giving plans of battles, sieges, &c., , cannot but prove useful. They are executed with great ability by that talented artist, Mr. A. J. Mason.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from Narrative of the Settlement of George Christian Anthon in America: And of the Removal of the Family From Detroit, and Its Establishment in New York City A gentleman of Detroit, engaged in antiquarian researches, applied to the writer for information as to the connection between the family of the latter and that city. The following summary was accordingly drawn up. The loss of a similar one which, in times gone by, had been commun...

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Excerpt from A Pilgrimage to Treves, Through the Valley of the Meuse and the Forest of Ardennes, in the Year 1844 With regard to the remainder of the book, I at once acknowledge my indebtedness to vari ous local works for many of the historical facts and details which I here introduce. These books being, without exception, written in the French or German languages, and many of them altogether unknown beyond the place of their publication, the...

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Excerpt from An Introduction to Latin Prose Composition: With a Complete Course of Exercises, Illustrative of All the Important Principles of Latin Syntax Tn: present work forms the second part of the Latin Les sons, and is intended to elucidate practically all the important principles and rules of the Latin Syntax. The plan pursued is the same with that which was followed in preparing the first part, and the utility of which has been so full...

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