PREFATORY NOTE. IN what concerns the text of this edition of the de Amicitia I desire to acknowledge gratefully my obligations to Dr J. S. Reid. I have purposely abstained from consulting his explanatory notes, feeling that they were too recent to be the common prey of Editors; although I know how much I might have gained from them. I have consulted throughout C. F. Müller's edition of Seyffert's bulky commentary, and frequently the notes in Nauck's edition; and sparingly (for a reason similar to that which kept me from Dr Reid's book) the notes of Mr A. Sidgwick. I have tried, with what success I cannot say, by a running analysis to shew a boy that there is some meaning in what he reads, and that Cicero did not write merely to puzzle English schoolboys; and by a Biographical Index, somewhat fuller than usual, I have aimed at rousing some interest in the persons alluded to in the text. I have placed the analysis. with the text, as I have done in other books of mine, because my experience as a Schoolmaster has taught me that what is relegated to Preface or Appendix has little chance of being read at all. APRIL, 1885. |