History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I

by John Colin Dunlop

The ensuing volumes include only the first of these successive periods. Whether I shall hereafter proceed to investigate the history of the others, will depend on the reception which the present effort may obtain, and on other circumstances which I am equally unable to anticipate.

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Meanwhile, I have made considerable alterations, and, I trust, improvements, in the present edition. These, however, are so much interwoven with the body of the work, that they cannot be specified—except some additional Translations from [pg xv]the Fragments of the older Latin poets—a Dissertation on the Tachygraphy, or short-hand writing of the Romans, introduced at the commencement of the Appendix—and a Critical Account of Cicero’s Dialogue De Republica, which, though discovered, had not issued from the press when the former edition was published.

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HISTORY

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ROMAN LITERATURE, &c.

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“Parva quoque, ut ferme principia omnia, et ea ipsa peregrina res fuit.”
Livy, lib. vii. c. 2.

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