The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus

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ADIUN PROFESSOR GF THE GREEM AN LATIN LANGUAGET IN AEOLUMBIA COLLEGE,

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l resaco vii Lis and Writing os Tacitus xi Chronological Tabio xvii

Thome auia 1 Tho Agricola 25 Notest in Germania 55 Notosin in Agricola 132 Iudex to Remainst in Stylo os Tacitus 213 Geographicat Index 2IT Stemma os tho fumit os Augusti qu

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are principali selecte stoin the Commentaries of Ruperti, Passow, and Walch It has been the objectos the America editor to rende these notes stili moreuseful by additiona selections rom the wortis fother scholars, and by a more frequent translationis dissiculti obscure passages. One great deseet in the Englisti edition is the omission o almost ali specialresereno to the authorities heno the notes have been obtained. The America editor has endenVore t suppinthis deficiency, as sarras lanin his power, more particulari in the commentar on the Germania The notes o the Agricola, in the Englisti edition, are preti muel one Continuous selectio fromthe excellent commentar of Walch, to hieli, however, the America editor has adde much valvabie

The result, heres ore, is that the student is herepresented illi the riches an mos extensive Commentar on the Germania an Agricola that hase ver appeare in the Englisti language. his re- mari is no made in an seelingis arrogance. The America editor latins litile sor himself beyon thomere electio os materiais, and theres ore seel per-

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secti a liberi to expres his opinion O the valueos hos materiais. The notes of Walch, in partieular, o the gricola, hicli consist in the original, o more than three hiandre closely printe octavo pages, Orm Undoubtedly, as has been remarhed by the Englisti editor, in of the mos vulvable Commentaries ver publishedipo any classica author. Tho se Remuriis on the Style of Tacitus, lappendedi tho Englisti odition, and reprinted in his are tranS-lated romin orti of Botticher, te vita, Scriptis, ac

stilo Taciti' Berlin 1834, and whicli, o borro again the angvage of r. mitti, sis ellanown to e ver excellent introduction to the stud of the stylo an writings of Tacitus.' The Geographica Index

is confined, as illi pereeived to the Germania, andenter someWhat fuit into the subsequent movements

of the German tribes. The Geograph o Britain, hein os minor importance, has been explaine utonoe in the notes to the Agricola The materiai sortho Indo have been obtained in a great mensure frona the commentar in the Englisti edition, and the pres-ent,ork wil bo ound o have gaine in thi Way a decided advantage by the separationis the geographica froin the explanator matter. It is a great, ut Ver Common mistake, to Suppos that the ancient

Geograph of Germany and Britain, speciali the

Ιt remainst ut to give a listis the disserent editionsos Tacitus, as etllas of the ther ortis rom hichaid has been obtained so the present Volume.

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PREFACE. IX1. Taciti opera, ed. Brotier, Glasg. 1796 4 vols. 4tO. 2. Taciti opera, ex recensione Emesti, ed. Oberlin, XOn. 1813,

11. Taciti Germania, ed. eishaupt, Solod. 1844, 8VO.12. a Germani de Tacite, par Panchoucke, Paris, 1824, 8VO. 13. Tacitus' Agi hola, ed. alch, Berlin 1828 8vo. 14. Taciti Agricola, ed. Dronhe, Fuldae 1834, 8vo. 15. Taciti Agricola, ed. Becher, Humburg 1826 8vo. 16. Germany and Agricolam Tacitus, ed. Barher, Lond. 1824.17 Tacitus' Germany Agricola, c., ed. Smissi Lond. 1840. 18. De C. C. Tacitus ammtlicho ea libersetet vo Botticher, Berlin 1834, 2 Ois. 8UO. 19 Lexico Tacituum, scripsit Guit Botticher Berotini 1830, 8vo. 20. Tacite, traduit par Durea de Lamalle, ed. Noel, Paris, 1828,

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It is the intentio of the editor o publis his sorties uture da selectiortions of the Annals ' and Histori es,' and also the Dialogiae on the Causes of the Decline of Eloquence.' In the mea time, he opes that the present Volume ma not be uris uocesssu in enabling the student to culti vate an aeqUaintanee with a par of the writings of Tacitus.

Columbi College, N. . Aug. 18th, 1847.