Cornelius Nepos Selections Illustrative Of Greek And Roman History Edited By Gs Farnell

Author : G. S. Farnell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330172452
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Cornelius Nepos written by G. S. Farnell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cornelius Nepos: Selections Illustrative of Greek and Roman History Cornelius Nepos is a useful author for a series of Elementary Classics, since he not only affords passages of simple and easy Latin suitable for young boys, but also brings the reader into connection with many of the leading events in Greek and Roman History. That he is very far from trustworthy in details as a historian is of course well known, but I have endeavoured to avoid passages involving flagrant historical errors, inserting those which bring before the reader the most important and best known events, about which there could be little opportunity for mis-statement. I have added an introduction before each life or group of lives which will, I hope, assist in giving the pupil something like a connected account of the periods of history touched upon by Nepos. These introductions I have interspersed with the Latin text, as they are thus, I think, more likely to arrest the attention of the pupil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.