BY CHARLES ANTHON, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW-
YORK, AND RECTOR OF THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.

NEW-YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-ST.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, By HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.

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PHILIP WAGNER, Ph. D.,

RECTOR OF THE GYMNASIUM AT DRESDEN, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE LATIN SOCIETY AT JENA, ETC., ETC.,

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED,

AS A TOKEN

OF SINCERE RESPECT FOR EMINENT SCHOLARSHIP, DISTINGUISHED CRITICAL SAGACITY, and

A HIGHLY CULTIVATED TASTE,

BY HIS FRIEND

THE EDITOR.