As regards the choice of type and style of printing, I owe a special debt of thanks to Mr. W. Hacklett (manager of Messrs. Spottiswoode’s Eton branch), whose unceasing care and attention has been invaluable in seeing the book through the press. I must also acknowledge the patience and skill of Messrs. Spottiswoode’s London staff in carrying out the many alterations which I have found to be inseparable from the task of bringing each passage and its notes into the compass of a single page. In conclusion I should like to say that it has been my aim throughout to adhere to what is best in Roman literature, and to omit passages the choice of which can only be justified by regarding their literary form apart from their moral value. Latin literature contains so much that is at once excellent in style and noble in thought that it seems a grave mistake to exalt the one at the expense of the other. _Maxima debetur puero reverentia._ EDMUND LUCE. WINDSOR: _April 1908_. [Footnote 1: The late Professor Goodhart.] CONTENTS PAGE Introductory Note v Editor’s Preface vii List Of Passages For Translation xv Index Of Authors xxiii INTRODUCTION. HOW TO TRANSLATE AT SIGHT 1-14 I. Helps to VOCABULARY 1-5 II. Helps to TRANSLATION 5-12 III. Helps to STYLE 13-14 DEMONSTRATIONS IN UNSEEN TRANSLATION 15-58 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION AT SIGHT 59-236 (1) _Illustrating Roman History._-- Part I.--Regal Period, B.C. 753-509 60-66 Part II.--Early Republic, B.C. 509-366 67-88 Part III.--The Conquest of Italy, B.C. 366-266 89-107 Part IV.--Contest with Carthage, B.C. 264-202 108-146 Part V.--Formation of Empire beyond Italy, in Europe and Africa, B.C. 200-133 147-159 Part VI.--Period of Civil Strife in Italy, and Foreign Wars, ending in Revolution, B.C. 133-44 160-236 (2) _Miscellaneous Passages_ 237-271 APPENDICES:--