The Journal of Philology, 1888, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Journal of Philology, 1888, Vol. 16I see no hope of completing a presentable commentary on Propertius within the next ten years, but in the mean time I trust that the following list of corrections may be found of service to scholars. For my own sake too I have some desire to put my conjectures on record, as I am for ever seeing them forestalled by other students: Mr Konrad Rossberg in vol. 127 of Fleckeisen's annual has bereft me of no less than nine. True, it is agreeable enough to have one's results confirmed by a scholar who stands next to Mr Baehrens and Mr Palmer at the head of living Propertian critics, but I should like to retain something of my own. As many readers are apt to fancy that the textual critic proposes alterations out of pure gaiety of heart and not because the vulgate wants altering, I have added an examination in detail of the first elegy, 'ne mea dona tibi studio disposta fideli, Intellecta prius quam sint.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.