Blackie's Latin Series EDITED BY R. Y. TYRRELL, LITT.D., D.C.L. Fellow of Trinity College and late Regius Professor of THE ODES OF HORACE BOOK II THE ODES OF HORACE BOOK II EDITED BY STEPHEN GWYNN LATE SCHOLAR AND HULMEAN EXHIBITIONER OF WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. GLASGOW AND DUBLIN 1899 GENERAL PREFACE THE Series of Elementary Latin Classics, of which this volume is a member, aims at satisfying the requirements of junior students under the present conditions of education and examinations. Each book will be, as far as possible, complete in itself. It will be furnished with a full vocabulary; and grammatical difficulties, as well as historical allusions, will be clearly and succinctly explained in the notes. Experience seems to show that reference to standard works in these cases is far from satisfactory; being, as a rule, neglected by the student, and involving, when not neglected, an avoidable expenditure of time and energy which might be better employed. The Introductions will be made as readable and attractive as possible, and the Editors will endeavour to bring the ancient literature into its proper relation with modern literature of the same kind. With this in view, they will take pains to make their renderings from the ancient authors worthy of the literary eminence of those authors, and to avoid baldness and stiffness, while maintaining accuracy and such qualities as are commonly connoted in the term 'scholarship.' The notes on the text, commonly called critical notes, will only deal with salient points, and will be placed in an Appendix, which |