which I have endeavoured, where it was necessary to do so, to exercise my own judgment, will be found in the General Introduction.

I have to acknowledge much kind help and many useful hints from friends, especially from A. O. Prickard, Esq., Fellow and Tutor of New College, who has been always ready with suggestive criticism, and to whom I was indebted for special assistance in writing the notes on the Fourth Book of the Odes. I owe also to his labour, as well as to the kind courtesy of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, the collation of the valuable Queen's College MS. which appears in an Appendix to this volume.

INTRODUCTION TO THE CARMEN SECULARE

CARMEN SECULARE .

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE EPODES

EPODES

APPENDIX I. On the Unknown Names in the Odes

II. Horace's Use of the Complementary Infi-

nitive with Verbs and Adjectives

III. Index of Metres used in the Odes and.

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[Dedication to the First Edition]

THIS EDITION IS DEDICATED

TO THE DEAR AND HONOURED MEMORY

OF

JOHN CONINGTON

LATE CORPUS PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

TO WHOSE SUGGESTION IT OWES ITS ORIGIN

AND TO WHOSE TEACHING AND EXAMPLE IT WILL OWE

ANY MERIT THAT MAY BE FOUND IN IT