Carminum liber I;

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CARMINUM

LIBER I.

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Cambritige:

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INTRODUCTION.

sar to Supplement, ut noto Supplant, tho caret ulus os Dictionarie and Grammar tho are intendedio assis the industrious in thei difficultios, o toassor facilities to tho indolent. For his reason uo explanation salven o ordinar grammatica term orconStructions o ordinary ordS, Ο Ο proper ames of hieli ven tho malle Classica Dictionurie contain a adequat account. Ο the ther haud evenwit thes omissions there is o much that is peculiarin the word Whicli Horace emplOys, o uel individualit in his phrases, there are o mati Subile allusion and hal expresse referetice to literature, to history, and to national customs that it has boon dissi cult to compreSA into a moderate compas nil that is

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vi INTRODUCTION. QVen absolutolymeede sor a complete understandingo tho sext. For although the sexceptiona solicit and Simple tersones of Horace' style rendor him especiallyadaptud for tho sat ho oui mos have deprecated', and although his onera meanin is ulmos tranΗ- parenti clear, et hi apparent Simplicit and eas of stylo is in roalit the rosul o consummate elaboration a single epithet osten oculi a Whole hapter OfhiStory, a single phras i osten a resume o a holephilosophical system his languago is o simple that achild a tollo it, ut so subito that perhapA no Latin poeir require more id and accurate Seholar-shi ior iis ivli appreciatio than the des. Wo facts may serve to illustrat this talement one, thalno author an e more idol illustrato than Horaco iro the wholo angem classica literature, or an behims0li more ire lusenti quote in illustration theseeond that to et an de of Horae even in igh University Examinations is to et a Sure tra ior SlOVeni an inaccurate Scholar8hip. 2 With regar to the generat meaning of ach

mar has eo prefixo to the notos, it the objecto mahin cloar the line of thought running throughit; and throughout att0ntion has been carefuit dramnio the connectionis ideas, here that connectio Wasno obvious, ut ather into at o suggeste than definitet expressed. It is indeed an essentia o lyrio

Hor Sat. 1. 10 74: an tua demensvilibus in ludis dietari carmina malis 3 Epist. 1. 20. 17 hoc quoque te manet ut pueros tementa docentem occupet aetremis in vicis balba senectus.

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INTRODUCTION. vii poetr that it hould e suggestive rather than descriptive, fragmentar rather than continuous', ut no true lyri poetry, certainlymot the des o Horaco, cana fuit understoo Without an endeavour o discern the contra thought Whicli inlis togother into alivin unit What are osten apparenti disunite and disjointo sentencos. t i hardi necessar hoWeveri potnt out that this est oriri obtain a genera conception o a passage or poema a Whole is o prima importatico in tho development of the intollectualiacuities, and the horines of the de rendors themespeciali adapto sor boys readin in his respect. A the sam timo it is a curious iaci that no lyrio poethas suffere more than Horace, homo antis effortio thus estimato his desis ach an individual Whole:

hundred person ea quote Separate Sentences omne

that hos Who appreciate his igit poetic poWer tothis extent thin that the have athome the secret

meat, invenies etiam disjecti membra Poetae.

But indos it is impossibi to forma adequato conception o Horace Without addin to the appreciatio an understandingi single Ord and phrases

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viii INTRODUCTION. the appreciatio an underSt ndin o thoi resereticet an boaring on tho holo de in hicli tho aro contained. In these Noto an attompta a been madesto assor materiat for his complete an fuit undor- standing. On tho thur haud as his is a schoo book, nopains havo been talion to accumulate reserences Pillustration in largo umbors, nor have varieties i

T. oditio G avo ad principali beiore me, an no vnfrequently referre to the large editionos orolli b0caus it is ithout a rival as in editionis Horace, and that o M Wictiliam ecauso the tactand discrimination illi hic tho notes are eleeledani arrange and the exceptional merit o the Introductions ill alWays mali it a favo ite ovo withothers than hos Who eis to fac orolli Tho buth