Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . I m HH11 ,•.%*? H I 1 $V I v _JBL ?? • t. Printed in Knglaml . \liii . IXXIV Ixxxviii PREFACE The first edition of this commentary was published in then much has happened. The discovery of two new. one of which is the archetype of all the rest, made a newtext necessary. While these MSS. have helped less than mighthave been hoped, they have yielded a good many improvedreadings, some of which confirm generally accepted emenda-tions, made by scholars since the fifteenth century. Morenotable is the advance that has been achieved in the historical
Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . I m HH11 ,•.%*? H I 1 $V I v _JBL ?? • t. Printed in Knglaml . \liii . IXXIV Ixxxviii PREFACE The first edition of this commentary was published in then much has happened. The discovery of two new. one of which is the archetype of all the rest, made a newtext necessary. While these MSS. have helped less than mighthave been hoped, they have yielded a good many improvedreadings, some of which confirm generally accepted emenda-tions, made by scholars since the fifteenth century. Morenotable is the advance that has been achieved in the historicalinterpretation of the narrative, an advance due chiefly to theprogress of archaeological inquiry. When Furneaux wrote,the use of the spade had hardly begun. The intervening yearshave let in a flood of light. But the results of investigation aremostly scattered in a number of antiquarian periodicals, manyof them not generally accessible, and they require sifting andco-ordinating. For what has been done to gather together thethreads and to weave them into a proportioned whole, we
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