DE IMPERIO GNAEI POMPEI ORATIO AD QUIRITES, (PRO LEGE MANILIA). WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, EDITED AFTER KARL HALM, BY A. S. WILKINS, LITT.D. PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN THE OWENS COLLEGE, PA6279 .I6 1898 First Edition 1879. Reprinted 1880, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1894, 1897, 1898 Lat. 8-30-04. St. 36.50 50 r. 11-2-84 PREFACE. No speech of Cicero's is better fitted to be the first studied by the young student than that commonly known as the Oration pro Lege Manilia, with the possible exception of the speech pro Archia. But while the latter has recently been admirably edited by Mr J. S. Reid (Pitt Press Series, 1878), the editor of this volume is not aware of any useful and trustworthy English school edition of the former. It appeared therefore worth while, with the kind sanction of Prof. Halm of Munich, to issue an adaptation of his well-known smaller edition for the use of English students. The introduction and notes have been translated from the eighth (improved) German edition (Berlin, 1877). For the analysis and the notes enclosed within square brackets the editor is responsible. Some of the latter have been derived from the edition of this speech by Richter and Eberhard (Leipzig, 1876). The only title for this oration known to the ancient grammarians and rhetoricians and found in the best MSS. is de Imperio Cn. Pompei: the superscription pro Lege Manilia appears only in some inferior MSS., but it has become so familiar, that it may perhaps be retained as an alternative title. MANCHESTER, June, 1879. |