Excerpt from Selected Lives of Nepos: With Notes and VocabularyIT is not the intention in the present work to prepare simply a new edition of Nepos, there are already good recent editions on the market. But there is no good edi tion adapted to the wants of the class of students that this book is intended to reach. We hear college men too often say that Caesar is dull and uninteresting. That is a great pity, for few writers are in reality so vigorous and enter taining. The trouble lies in their method of studying him. They read him so slowly and painfully that all interest in the progress of his narrative is lost. We believe it would be far better for the beginner to use for his earliest drill in reading a work iniwhich the lagging interest might be revived at frequent intervals. For this purpose Nepos is admirably adapted. Each life is a complete story in itself. After a number of these have been read it may fairly be presumed that the student will be able to read Caesar with more ease and appreciation. The language of Nepos is usually simple - if studiedly so, no matter - and his style is never difficult. We believe no classical author is better adapted to the needs of beginners than Nepos.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-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.