Excerpt from The Journal of Philology, Vol. 24 In the course of lecturing on these books in the year 1894 I found many old difficulties still unsolved by commentators; while several new ones suggested themselves, principally from a study of the full collation of MSS given in Hude's text-edition Copenhagen 1890. In this excellent book it is at last possible to see the facts at a glance. Hence most of the following notes, in which I have tried to meet a few difficulties, turn on textual points. I fear I am sadly behind the age, for the tendency of the notes is in the main conservative. The facile bracketing of the subjectively unpleasing (a common phenomenon in modern criticism) is in my eyes tolerable only when unforced reasons can be given to account for the alleged interpolation. This however is seldom the case. The text of the same editor varies in different editions: what was a pointless insertion sometimes becomes a pointed and integral part of the passage; and the repentant critic explains at leisure what he had expunged in haste. So too with verbal emendations. A few are brilliant, a very few certain; while the attempts to change what is presumably bad into what is surely worse are numberless. 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.