Martial, the Epigrammatist, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Martial, the Epigrammatist, and Other EssaysAt the request of a number of his students and asso ciates, I have collected a few of the less technical papers of my friend and colleague kirby F lower smith, and now, thanks to the liberal policy of the Johns Hopkins Press, I am able to offer them to a wider circle of read ers. As the two lectures on Ovid and Propertius may suggest, Professor smith was especially interested in the graeco-roman Elegy. I am sorry that I could not in clude here a somewhat similar study he had made of Tibullus. For this, I can only refer the reader to the introduction of his masterly edition of Tibullus (new York: American Book Co.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.