STUDIES LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IN THE ODES OF HORACE BY A. W. VERRALL, M.A. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1884 [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.] CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SON, ADD THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. BIBLIOTHECA MONACENSIS TO THE REVEREND E. C. WICKHAM, M.A. MASTER OF WELLINGTON COLLEGE, AND LATE FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. MY DEAR Mr WICKHAM, It is with great pleasure that I avail myself of your permission to address this little book to you. It is in itself satisfactory to connect my work in this way with my old school and to commend myself to the recollection of my friends at Wellington. But it is especially fortunate for me that in doing this I can also remember myself to you and present my respects to a well-known expositor of Horace. Essays like these, on points perhaps not before worked out in a subject extremely familiar, appear under one certain disadvantage. It is impossible to exhibit the ninety-nine cases of agreement with predecessors, which answer to each one of disagreement: and consequently what is actually said labours under a suspicious appearance of dissent. It is something therefore that, in submitting my suggestions to you, I can so easily disclaim the pretence to be the beginning of wisdom. Some might think--but you will not, nor will our best critics in England—that my views are condemned beforehand, when I postulate that the Odes of Horace, as we have them, are |