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Excerpt from Stories From Aulus Gellius

The text, in point of language and spelling, is in the main that of Hertz, as given in his critical edition. The chief changes will be found on page 39, lines 6 to 10, page 68, line 17, and page 79, lines 7 and 8. The motive of these changes has been to supply a text easily readable and to obviate the necessity of a long and intricate note. Through out the book all vowels known to be long have been carefully marked. In syllables containing vowels long by position I have followed the views of Anton Marx, as explained in his Hulfsbuchlein fu'r die Aussprache der lateim'schen Vokale in positionslomgen Silben (second edition, Berlin.

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Excerpt from Stories From Aulus Gellius

The statement of the title-page that these selections from Aulus Gellius have been "edited for sight reading" calls for a few words of explanation. The term "sight reading" may denote either of two distinct operations. On the one hand it may apply to the pupils act in reading, under a teachers guidance, Latin hitherto unseen. On the other hand it may denote the students act in reading similar Latin by himself without the aid of a teacher. In the one case the pupils ultimate reliance is upon his instructor, in the other upon himself. Of these two senses of the term the latter is the one which has been kept especially in mind in the preparation of this little volume, though there is nothing to hinder its use according to the former method. The book is intended for students who, while still in a very early stage of their Latin studies, yet possess a fair working vocabulary and a reasonable knowledge of the fundamental principles of Latin syntax. I have aimed to give in the commentary sufficient assistance to enable such students to read the selections as rapidly and intelligently as possible, and without the need of any helps beyond those furnished by the book itself. Such being my purpose, I have no fears that the volume of commentary will be found excessive.

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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.