Horace

Excerpt from Horace: Satires and Epistles Among recent editions of Horace none has received such high praise as that of Professor Kiessling, and I feel very grateful for the permission, so cordially given, to make his edition the basis of my own. I have, however, not attempted to translate Kiessling's commentary, and this edition will be found to differ not infrequently from his both in text and notes. I desire to emphasize this fact here, inasmuch as no attention is called to these points of difference in the Notes. If errors, therefore, are found in my work, they arc probably my own, not Professor Kiessling's. My purpose has been to supply the student more liberally than has heretofore been done in American editions with such information as is needed for the full understanding and enjoyment of our author. Dean Milman says, in his Life of Horace, that "whoever really understands Horace will have a more perfect and accurate knowledge of the Roman manners and Roman mind than the most diligent and laborious investigator of the Roman antiquities." To facilitate such a thorough study of Horace, it has been deemed advisable to furnish full notes on those parts of the Satires and Epistles that are usually read in our American colleges, and to leave the remainder without comment. 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-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.