Volume 2

T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex / with notes and a translation by H.A.J. Munro.

  • Lucretius
Date:
1900-1910
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Credit: T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex / with notes and a translation by H.A.J. Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE present edition is divided into three volumes, the first con- taining the text and critical notes, the second the commentary and general] index, the third the translation. The text is practically the same as in the last edition: in one place only (1 442) a new reading is printed, and that was only omitted before through aecident as was explained at the end of the index. There are a few additions, not more than half-a-dozen, to the critical notes; these have been inserted in square brackets. The translation too has undergone no change. In the commentary there are few alterations but considerable additions amounting in all to more than twenty pages. These supple- mentary notes and illustrations have been taken from an interleaved eopy of the last edition which was found among Mr Munro's books after his death in the spring of last year. Also on p. 333 of the commentary will be found some extracts from letters addressed by him to Professor Palmer of Trinity College, Dublin, discussing the reading of v 1010; Professor Palmer was kind enough to send me these letters. As the extracts deal with the criticism rather than the explanation of the passage, they should have been inserted in the first volume; but by an accident they were delayed until after that volume was printed. Nothing has been inserted from any other source whatever. Here too all that is new has been inclosed in square brackets. In the new examples the references have been verified. To the index large additions have been made by myself. Tt remains to express my thanks to Dr Forbes, the relative and executor of Mr Munro, for the kindly feeling which led him to entrust me with the preparation of this edition, and also for the generous consideration he has shown throughout. J. D. DUEF. Tarxiry ConngGE, CAMBRIDGE, Fzp. 18, 1886.
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