THE ANABASIS OF ΧΕΝΟΡΗΟΝ, BOOK VII. WITH ENGLISH NOTES BY ALFRED PRETOR, M. A. FELLOW OF ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; London: CAMBRIDGE WAREHOUSE, 17, Paternoster Row. Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. 1880 [All Rights reserved.] 2354.-. PREFACE. THE text of the present edition is based on that of Kühner, all deviations from which will be noticed as they occur. Indeed, without by any means accepting all his conclusions, I gladly acknowledge that in almost every note I am indebted for help to his most admirable work. I have also consulted with advantage the editions of Schneider, Vollbrecht, Bornemann and Macmichael, together with a commentary by Mr Taylor on the First and Second Books, which has done much towards elucidating the History and Geography of the subject. The notes will in some cases appear elementary to the advanced scholar, but my experience of the Local Examinations leads me to think they are not on that account unnecessary. Instead of explaining a construction at length, as I have usually done, it might have been more profitable to the student had I been able to refer him to the page in his grammar, but, with so many different grammars in use, this course was found to be impracticable. Whenever a longer explanation is required than my space will admit of, a reference will usually be given to Madvig's Greek Grammar. I can find none that surpasses it either in point of scholarship, or (what is of almost equal importance to the student) in the clearness and simplicity of its arrangement. In preparing the Introduction I have derived valuable assistance from Kühner, who is, however, strangely reticent on the questions connected with Xenophon's banishment, while I am likewise indebted to an article in the Philological Museum, contributed, I believe, by the late Bishop Thirlwall, whose antipathy to our author betrays itself by a very unusual bitterness of tone. It will be found that the present edition has in some degree changed its character during the time that it has been in progress. For example, the notes to the Third and Fourth Books, with which I commenced, were in their original form entirely adapted to meet the wants of beginners. On finding, however, that I should be required to complete the entire work, I determined, by enlarging the scope of the notes, to make it available in some degree for pupils of a more advanced capacity. It is for this reason that I have given what may be thought an undue prominence to the more difficult questions of reading and scholarship. S. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, January, 1880. |