VOL. II

THE SATIRES, EPISTLES, AND

DE ARTE POETICA

WITH A COMMENTARY

BY

E. C. WICKHAM, D.D.

HON. FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1903

PREFACE

THIS Edition is substantially identical with Vol. II of my larger Horace, published in 1891. I have endeavoured to make some of the notes rather simpler, and I have taken the opportunity of correcting, as far as I could, errors that I had discovered, or which had been pointed out to me. And in twelve years one's judgment on some points has changed. The publication by the Clarendon Press of the text of Horace with a modest apparatus criticus,' which is embodied in this volume, has rendered superfluous a certain number of notes on textual questions where the meaning was not seriously involved. I should say that the spelling of Latin words has been assimilated to the standard adopted by desire of the Delegates in that edition.