HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Lp 26.413 Lp 26.413 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. DUBLIN: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY SEP 02 1982 I HAVE now, I hope, removed all the errors of the Press which occurred in the earlier editions. I have also made a few changes in the Text, and a few corresponding modifications in the notes. I have introduced into the Text in four places (309, 439, 565, 936) the non-interrogative enclitic -ně, the existence of which in early Latin has been completely established by Professor Minton Warren in The American Journal of Philology (1881) II. 5, p. 50 sqq. In 684 I now read with A, followed by Ussing and Ribbeck Nam bona uxor, ludus durust, si sit usquam gentium, Vbi ea possit inveniri. "For a good wife, if such a thing there is 'Tis no child's play to hit the way to find her.” It must be owned that ludus durus is a strange expression for the ¿ywv péyiσtos of Greek. We should rather have expected lucta durast, or could there have existed in old Latin a form luctus beside FAS |