The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus   By: Persius

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THE SATIRES of A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

Edited By

BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE, Ph.D. (Göttingen), LL.D., Professor of Greek in the University of Virginia.

[Publisher's Device: LAMPADIA ECHONTES DIADÔSOUSIN ALLÊLOIS]

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square. 1875.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

PREFACE.

The text of this edition of Persius is in the main that of Jahn's last recension (1868). The few changes are discussed in the Notes and recorded in the Critical Appendix.

In the preparation of the Notes I have made large use of Jahn's standard edition, without neglecting the commentaries of Casaubon, König, and Heinrich, or the later editions by Macleane, Pretor, and Conington, or such recent monographs on Persius as I have been able to procure. Special obligations have received special acknowledgment.

My personal contributions to the elucidation of Persius are too slight to warrant me in following the prevalent fashion and cataloguing the merits of my work under the modest guise of aims and endeavors. I shall be contenf, if I have succeeded in making Persius less distasteful to the general student; more than content, if those who have devoted long and patient study to this difficult author shall accord me the credit of an honest effort to make myself acquainted with the poet himself as well as with his chief commentators.

In compliance with the wish of the distinguished scholar at whose instance I undertook this work, Professor Charles Short, of Columbia College, New York, I have inserted references to my Latin Grammar and to the Grammar of Allen and Greenough, here and there to Madvig.

B. L. GILDERSLEEVE.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, February , 1875.

CONTENTS.

Page

INTRODUCTION VII

A. PERSII FLACCI SATURARUM LIBER 39

VITA PERSII 65 NOTES 71 CRITICAL APPENDIX 207 INDEX 211

A. PERSII FLACCI

SATURARUM

LIBER.

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PROLOGUS.