OF TACITUS WITH A REVISED TEXT, ENGLISH NOTES, BY ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A. LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD. ONE OF THE ASSISTANT MASTERS IN MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL, LONDON AND W. J. BRODRIBB, M.A. LATE FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. London MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. 1896 [All rights reserved.] Originally made up from the separate books. First printed as a complete volume, 1886. Reprinted 1889, 1891, 1893, 1896 Az 1896 PREFACE THE Treatise on Germany and the Life of Agricola have, perhaps, been edited as frequently as any of the Latin Classics. They exhibit in a singularly convenient form the manner and genius of one of the greatest of ancient historians; and thus at once possess a great literary value, and are peculiarly useful as text-books in our Schools and Universities. About works which have been so diligently studied we can hardly expect to say much that is original. We have endeavoured, with the aid of recent editions, thoroughly to elucidate the text, explaining the various difficulties, critical and grammatical, which occur to the student. Information which is now amply supplied by the dictionaries of biography and geography we have thought it unnecessary to furnish. We have consulted 439403 throughout, besides the older commentators, the editions of Ritter and Orelli, but we are under special obligations to the labours of the recent German editors, Wex and Kritz, an obligation which must not be measured by the extent of our references to them. We have followed, but with some important variations, the text of Orelli. A table is given of the passages in which we have adopted a different reading. We frequently quote from our translation (published in 1868). It may be as well to explain that in some instances we have seen reason to modify the renderings there given. LONDON, January, 1869. A. J. C. W. J. B. |