The Histories of Caius Cornelius Tacitus With Notes for Colleges (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Histories of Caius Cornelius Tacitus: With Notes for Colleges Tmi: text of this edition follows, for the most part, Orelli's, Zurich, 1848, which, being based on a new and most faithful recension of the Medicean ms., by his friend Baiter, may just lybe consideredasmarking a newera inthe historyof the text of Tacitus. In several passages, however, where he has needlessly departed from the ms., I have not hesitated to ad here to it in company with other editors, believing, that not unfrequently the most corrected copies are the less con'ec The various readings have been carefully compared through out, and, if important, are referred to in the notes. 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.