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1904

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PREFATORY NOTE.

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THIS edition has been prepared on the same general plan as that of the speech Pro Archia. The speech for Balbus, however, has been so generally neglected', and seems so little likely to be soon edited again, that I felt it advisable to attempt to produce an edition which would be worth the notice of mature scholars, besides being useful to the undergraduates. and boys at public schools, for whom it is primarily designed. There seems to be in England a common impression, which I hope this edition does not justify, that it is impossible to produce editions of the Classics which shall be at once useful to junior students and to professed scholars. In Germany opinion sets in the other direction, for many of the editions designed for schools are also of the greatest use for advanced scholars. This speech is so full of matter illustrating the Roman modes of dealing with the populations subject to their Empire, that it

1 Neither Teuffel in his "History of Roman Literature " nor Prof. Mayor in his "Bibliographical Clue" mentions any separate edition of the "Pro Balbo". So far as I know, it has never before

been separately edited.

2 An editor of a book in the "Pitt Press Series" was lately taken to task by a reviewer for giving in a note a reference to Roby's Grammar!

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deserves treatment more thorough than I have been able to give it. The text being even now more unsettled than that of any other speech of Cicero, I have given it my best attention in an Appendix. In a few instances I have felt obliged to adopt emendations of my own. The Latinity of the speech has been treated with considerable minuteness, because the knowledge of Latin Prose expression is still deficient when compared with the progress made in other departments of pure scholarship by those for whom the edition is especially constructed.

In dealing with a speech for which so little has been done by scholars, I cannot hope to have escaped from making errors, though I trust not in matters of moment.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

J. S. REID.

January, 1878.