Excerpt from Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose Greek classic at the beginning of the last century. Thatis the true parallel. English translations have come with full English commentaries. They are their natural complement; and any mischief which they may be supposed to cause to classical study - I should prefer to say, any change that they indicate in its methods has come already with the commentaries. Perhaps in saying so much an old schoolmaster ...
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Excerpt from Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose Greek classic at the beginning of the last century. Thatis the true parallel. English translations have come with full English commentaries. They are their natural complement; and any mischief which they may be supposed to cause to classical study - I should prefer to say, any change that they indicate in its methods has come already with the commentaries. Perhaps in saying so much an old schoolmaster is betraying a twinge of conscience at seeming to publish a 'crib.' But in truth if the present translation owed its origin to an Oxford lecture-room some thirty years ago, it has been given to the printer now not so much with any view to schoolboys or Academic students as to two other classes of readers. Horace was more read in the generation which is passing away than he is now; and it has been thought that some who, though their classical books are not often disturbed, have not altogether lost the memory of his genial wisdom may turn over these pages with interest and find in them some echoes of the past. And there is an increasing class of persons who, without first-hand knowledge of the classical languages, are interested to make the great writers of Greece and Rome something more than mere names to themselves. Perhaps these will care more to feel that they have the exact things which Horace said than to have a distant and Questionable imitation of the poetical form in which he said it. Even in plain prose, it may be, they will find some charm in his company, and feel across the centuries the 'touch of nature.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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