A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . slations and special treatises alone, ev^en if soattractive as Dr. Wilkinsons admirable After School Series. but in the Latinlanguage itself. Weighty are the words of Schopenhauer •• A man who doesnot understand Latin is like one who walks through a beautiful region in a fog;his horizon is very close to him. He sees only the nearest things clearly, and afew steps away from him the outlines of everything become indistinct or whollylost. But the horizon of the Latin scholar
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . slations and special treatises alone, ev^en if soattractive as Dr. Wilkinsons admirable After School Series. but in the Latinlanguage itself. Weighty are the words of Schopenhauer •• A man who doesnot understand Latin is like one who walks through a beautiful region in a fog;his horizon is very close to him. He sees only the nearest things clearly, and afew steps away from him the outlines of everything become indistinct or whollylost. But the horizon of the Latin scholar extends far and wide through thecenturies of modern history, the middle ages, and antiquity. May this little book prove not only an aid, but even an incentive! Acknowledgment of assistance is here made to Mrs. Minna V. Fitch, to MissKatharine H. Austin for her translation of Horaces ninth satire, to Mr. SamuelM. Otto of the Chautauqua Acadevtia of Latin and Greek, and to Mr. ShermanG. Pitt and Mr. Melvin D. Brandow, students at Rutgers College. EDGAR S. SHUMW^AY. Rutgers College,New Brunswick, N. 17, A DAY IN ANCIENT ROME. IVT Rome I often think of you, and wish you, too, might tread the squares and streets through which have walked the Roman authors whose works you are studying, as well as the men of whom they speak. The Latin historians, orators and poets, fromNepos to Horace and Tacitus, would become muchmore familiar and dear to you if you could seewhere they lived and wrote. And, out of the deadletters, living forms would arise, if you could readthem in that place to which they carry you inspirit, that is, in Rome I can, in a measure, make up for your loss in notbeing able to see these places, by telling you what letters andstones here have told me. But, to follow me aright, you mustdirect your thoughts (you know they are always ready for a flyingtrip from the class-room) toward sunny Italy. Fancy you are visit-ing me here, every one of you
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