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T. MACCI PLAVTI

TRIN VMM VS

WITH NOTES

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL

BY

WILHELM WAGNER, PH. D.
PROFESSOR AT THE JOHANNEUM, HAMBURG.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

(1875)

CAMBRIDGE:

DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.

LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS.

1884.

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PREFACE.

IN reissuing my edition of the Trinummus, which was first published in 1872, I think it advisable to repeat the preface then prefixed to it (dated Christmas, 1871). It follows here precisely as it was then.

"The present edition of the Trinummus would not perhaps have appeared so soon but for the publication of Ritschl's new edition. It is true that, some three years ago, I had agreed to prepare for Messrs Deighton, Bell & Co. a complete edition of Plautus with English notes: but it was understood that so great a work as this naturally required much time and many preparations, though I might have previously collected much material bearing both upon the criticism and explanation of my author. I commenced with the Trinummus, and indeed nearly finished a first sketch of the commentary, when I heard that Professor Ritschl was about to re-edit his Plautus. I now thought it advisable to wait until the appearance of his new edition, and after that time I again took up my work. Such as it is, and though I am well aware that it falls short of what it might be and ought to be, and what I myself should wish it to be, I now present it to my English friends.

"Since the publication of my Aulularia (1866) various works have appeared which it was impossible to neglect. In the first place I would mention the second edition of Corssen's work on pronunciation, to which I have always referred in my notes, the first being now entirely superseded and antiquated by the second. Ritschl himself inaugurated his second edition (if I may say so) by the

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