those two Letters of advice with such masterly skill and such beautiful execution. Before concluding, it is incumbent on me to acknowledge, with many thanks, the valuable assistance which I received in the summer of last year, when at Richmond, from the fine taste and talent of Mr. William King, in very carefully drawing up the principal articles of Appendix. Mr. King is already known, I trust, from the just compliments paid to him as my coadjutor in editing the Analecta Majora Poetica of Professor Dalzel in 1827; and he well deserves to be known from his labour so judiciously bestowed on the last edition of Mitford's History of Greece. Nor may the valuable services of Mr. Robert Baldwin. be allowed here to pass unacknowledged. Without his friendly assistance and judicious advice, these sheets could never have been carried through the press; under the peculiar difficulty of so many MS. additions and corrections to be incorporated with the old text, and the diffi culty itself aggravated by that text being so singular a compound of original matter blended with quotation. Absurdity involved in the common order of the books of Horace, and congruity arising from Bentley's arrangement, as to internal Horace's three places of residence, Rome,-Sabine Valley,- First great source of error in Suetonius Second source, opposite to that, in the discoveries of Domenico His occasional resort also to Præneste and Baiæ Essential distinctions betwixt his mode of life in the Sabine Valley The invitation to Q. Hirpinus (2 C. xi. Quid bellicosus. . .) dated from Tivoli, and not from the Sabine Valley Singular errors as to the wishes of Horace, and as to the actual (With allusion to his escape from other dangers) Carried to Rome for his education. (Reminiscences afterwards of his native place) The liberal character of his appearance at Rome Probable origin of the Satire, (1 S. vII.) Proscripti Regis On the succession of the pieces in his books; the separation of Canidia traced through all the pieces respecting her The new stage of Horace's history, when just possessed of the (Lays the foundation of his Epodes) His happiness and kind reception among his Sabine neighbours. 67 The historical bearing of his Epodes considered 66 Publication of the fourth book of Odes Preceded by the Carmen Sæculare . And marked by peculiar circumstances. Dates regarding Virgil, Quintilius Varus, and Lucilius, considered 83 In historical facts no real objection to Bentley's chronology The localities of Horace, as here stated, not affected by the sup- BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF HORACE 90 Page VIII. Some account of the text of this edition, and of the readings different from that of Gesner adopted for its improvement 149 TREATISE ON THE METRES OF HORACE 159 INTRODUCTION. The terms Caupona-Popina-Taberna, explained. xiii On the Comites of Horace's day, and the military origin of that character ib. |