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Propertius
Excerpt from Propertius
A few words are necessary in connection with the text contained in this volume. There are a number of passages in Propertius where it cannot be said that any certain emendation has been made. In such cases I have inserted the most plausible correction in the text, in order not to confuse readers of the trans lation. I do not wish it to be supposed that I regard such corrections as certain. In some cases they are only a pig aller. Propertius presents such difficulties to the translator that an apology for its deficiencies is perhaps unnecessary. NO one is more sensible of them than myself. I have attempted, as far as pos sible, to keep close to the Latin, even in cases - and they are not a few - where from the point of view of style a free paraphrase would have been in many ways preferable.
A few words are necessary in connection with the text contained in this volume. There are a number of passages in Propertius where it cannot be said that any certain emendation has been made. In such cases I have inserted the most plausible correction in the text, in order not to confuse readers of the trans lation. I do not wish it to be supposed that I regard such corrections as certain. In some cases they are only a pig aller. Propertius presents such difficulties to the translator that an apology for its deficiencies is perhaps unnecessary. NO one is more sensible of them than myself. I have attempted, as far as pos sible, to keep close to the Latin, even in cases - and they are not a few - where from the point of view of style a free paraphrase would have been in many ways preferable.
392 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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