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Excerpt from Byways in the Classics Including Alia
Last year I published under the title of Alia a collection of proverbial phrases with Greek and Latin parallels and Of various jottings on the classics, which met with wider favour than I had ventured to anticipate. Accordingly, I have cut out what seemed too trivial to reprint and added more, and have here included the result; but the greater part of this volume is new. At p. 137 it might have been observed that ozgotry and jealousy, as well as benefactor, have no word to represent them in Latin. A list Of common English words that lack classical equivalents would throw light on the history of morals. I commend this subject to some one who is in the habit of Greek and Latin composition. At p. 55 reference should-have been made to Dr. Johnson's suspicion in his Life of Cowley that that poet consulted the Virgilian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
