EPISTLES OF CICERO ARRANGED With brief Notes for use in Junior Forms, BY THE LATE GEORGE LONG, M.A., FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO., The notes and preface of this edition are re printed from Mr Long's volume containing the 'De Senectute' and 'De Amicitia' published in the "Grammar School Classics." PREFACE. SELECTIONS from Cicero's Letters might be made for various purposes. The purpose of the following selection is for the teaching of the Latin language; and probably any other sixty letters might be selected which would answer the same end. I should have made the number larger if the limits of this little book allowed. I was not able to get a copy of the original selection of J. Sturmius, which Ascham recommends as an elementary book for Latin scholars; but I have got a reprint of the book (Leipzig, 1741), which, besides three books of the selection of Sturmius, contains a fourth book of selections by Jonas Bittner, the whole revised by C. Daum, or rather not revised, for it is one of the most incorrect works that ever I saw. There is a London print of the selections dated 1669, which also contains four books. The title is 'Marci Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum Libri iv. Cum postremis H. Stephani et D. Lambini Editionibus diligenter collati et quam accuratissime emendati. A Joanne Sturmio. In puerilem educationem confecti. Huic editioni accesserunt Graeca Latinis expressa.' It appears from the Prefatory Letter of J. Sturmius to his brother Jacobus that his selection consisted of four books; and he gives a very good account of the reasons which |