Ploutarchou Nikias. Life of Nicias; with introd., notes and lexicon by Hubert A. Holden

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to the Lives of the Gra H and of Sulla, recenti pub-tished unde the fame aUSPiCOS. I have continue ilae plan, adopted in laeserandither recent publications of mine, o endeavotitan to satiSi y the wants of student of disterent degree o proficiency. Objections have been and wil be maderi suci a plan, jus a there vili, in the natur of things, b divergen Ceso opinion o the amotant O as Sistance that liould begive to student in editions os hi lcind. My udgnient has been ornaedi considerable eXPerienCeras a TeaCheran Examiner; I have again and again Mund that, in translatin an eas paSSage os a Greel Author themajorit os Student Slao v an ignorance of the meaning

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Even the two Englisti translations o Plutarch's Taraiae Lives generali acceptet solae best, that filae Langia ornes, and that Commoni kno v a Dryden' S