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Excerpt from A System of Greek Prosody and Metre, for the Use of Schools and Colleges: Together With the Choral Scanning of the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus, and the Ajax and Oedipus Tyrannus of SophoclesAn accurate acquaintance with the Prosody and Metres of the Greek Language is so necessary an accompaniment of true scholarship, that any attempt to advocate its claims to the notice of the student would be entirely superfluous. It must be ...

Excerpt from A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors, and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected With the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts of the Greeks and RomansEng. Traml), was himself a very able plzsicisn. He was a soldier as' well as a physician. 0 was wounded dangeroual in the shoulder in a sally which the Trojans had ma e. Nestor i...

Excerpt from A Grammar of the Greek Language: Principally From the German of Kühner, With Selections From Matthiae, Buttmann, Thiersch, and Rost, For the Use of Schools and CollegesAnother new feature in the present work is the frs quent reference to the Sanscrit and other cognate lan guages. N 0 Greek grammar at the present day can be regarded as complete without this, and the time, it is hoped, is not far distant when this department of phil...

Excerpt from The Germania and Agricola, and Also Selections From the Annals of Tacitus, 1856It remains but to give a list of the different edi tions of Tacitus, as well as of the other subsidiary works from Which aid has been obtained in preparing this work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work....

Excerpt from Sallut's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline: With an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical IndexesThe 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 char acter of an imaginary conversation, a mode of impart ing information which the editor has recently adopted in a course of college-lectures on Ancient Lite...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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

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 AuthoritiesThe 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 the...

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Excerpt from A System of Greek Prosody and Metre: For the Use of Schools and Colleges, Together With the Choral Scanning of the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus, and the Ajax and OEdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, To Which Are Appended Remarks on Indo Germanic AnalogiesThe Choral Scanning is intended to initiate the young scholar into a department of metrical study, which, to the inexperienced, bears a very formidable name but is in reality, with th...

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 ElucidatedTun present work forms the concluding portion. Of the Greek Mssons, 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 an...

Excerpt from Select Orations of Cicero: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and Historical, Geographical, and Legal IndexesIn 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 re...

Excerpt from Manual of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of the Byzantine EraThe main work itself embraces in its plan the whole range of Greek Literature, from the earliest periods down to the close of the Byzantine era, and, besides a brief ao count of each successive stage of development in the his tory of the Grecian mind, will be found to contain bio graphical sketches oi all the most eminent writers who ¿...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A System of Ancient and Medieval Geography: For the Use of Schools and CollegesThe present work professes to be a system, not mere ly of ancient, but also of mediaeval geography. This latter division of the subject, however, has only been so far attended to as was rendered absolutely usees sary for the clearer understanding of particular cases To have entered more minutely into medieval detail would have made the work too volumino...