The Comedies Of Plautus Volume 2

Author : Henry Thomas Riley
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ISBN 13 : 9781330994375
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book The Comedies of Plautus, Vol. 2 of 2 written by Henry Thomas Riley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Comedies of Plautus, Vol. 2 of 2: Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Notes, Containing the Amphitryon, Rudens, Mercator, Cistellaria, Truculentus, Persa, Casina, P nulus, Epidicus, Mostellaria, and Fragments In the Translation of the Plays contained in the present volume, the text of Fleckeisen has been adopted for the Amphitryon and the Rudens, and that of Weise (as given in the Tauchnitz Edition) for the others. In the supposed interpolations of the Amphitryon and Mercator, Schmieder has been followed. The previous English translations of the author are few in number. A part of the Menaechmi (translated, it is supposed, by William Warner) was published in 1595; to which reference will be found at page 372 of Vol. I. In the latter part of the seventeenth century Echard translated the Amphitryon, Rudens, and Epidicus. Thornton remarks that "his style is coarse and indelicate; when he aims at being familiar, he is commonly low and vulgar." In 1747, Cooke, the Translator of Terence, published a version of the Amphitryon, which Thornton speaks of as apparently intended merely for the use of learners." Of Thornton's translation of Plautus as a poetical work, it is impossible to speak in other than terms of admiration; but from the circumstance of its being in blank verse, it is not sufficiently close to convey to the English reader an accurate idea of the peculiar style of the author. A professed translation of seven of the Comedies of Plautus was published by the Rev. G. S. Cotter in 1827, but in it he avowedly omits a large portion of the text, and a still larger portion without the least intimation. In the present translation, particular attention has been given to the difficult and obscure passages, and it may not be presumptuous to hope that the Notes will be found of value to the classical student. It is hardly necessary to remind the Reader that the asterisks in the text denote where portions of the original are lost. 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."