ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This section is reproduced verbatim from the orignal text, published in 1916.
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Benjamin L. D'Ooge, of the Michigan State Normal School, for his generous assistance and hearty encouragement in the preparation of this work.
Sincere thanks are due to the various authors and publishers of copyrighted books from which selections are taken for their courteous permission to copy.
Specific acknowledgment is due George Bell and Sons, London, for Martial's Epigrams; Smith, Elder, and Company, London, for The Doom of the Slothful; Houghton, Mifflin Co., for After Construing, A Roman Mirror, Enceladus, and the poems of John G. Saxe; The Chautauqua Press, for Capri and the Translations of Horace's Odes; Charles Scribner's Sons, for the Assembly of the Gods, Cerberus, the Harpy, A Plea for the Classics, and Malum Opus; The American Book Company, for Cupid and the Bee; Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., for A Christmas Hymn; New England Magazine, for the Fall of Rome; Little, Brown and Company, for the translation of Dies Irae; The Outlook Company, for the Prayer of Socrates; Allyn and Bacon, for the music for Flevit Lepus Parvulus.
I must beg forgiveness of any one whose rights I have overlooked and of a few whom, after repeated efforts, I have been unable to trace.
[NOTES]
[1.] See Pliny's Letter on Minicia Marcella, [p. 109].
[2.] Copyright. Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[3.] Virgil must bring some rare perfume in exchange for the rich wine, since Horace thus playfully conditions his invitation.
[4.] A little girl who died at six years of age.
[5.] This well known epigram is the original of one equally famous in English, that written by Tom Brown on Dr. John Fell, about 1670.
"I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this I know and know full well
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell."
[6.] Anacreon was a Greek society poet, living in the sixth century b.c.
[7.] From the Prayer-book of Queen Mary, and believed to be her composition. Said to have been uttered by the queen just before her execution.
[8.] By permission of Miss M. L. Smith. Latin Lessons. Allyn and Bacon.
[9.] "This marvelous hymn is the acknowledged masterpiece of Latin poetry and the most sublime of all uninspired hymns."
—Schaff.
[10.] Ascribed to Innocent III, Robert II, of France, and others. Ranks second to Dies Irae among the Great Hymns. Can be sung to the tune of Rock of Ages.
[11.] This may be sung to the tune of Sweet Hour of Prayer.
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