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About The Book: In attempting to bring before English classical students a portion of the work of an author once widely read both elsewhere and in this country, but now used seldom - at least in England, we hope that we have not undertaken a thankless task. The want of variety in Latin prose authors read in schools has often been felt by schoolmasters; and, if none but the writers of the purest Latin are to be studied, we are at once thrown back upon Caesar and Cicero alone. And it may with reason be held that University students would not lose by reading portions of a wider range of authors than they now usually do. The claims of Curtius are dealt with in the introduction. As we are not preparing this book with the view of furnishing candidates for some particular examination with a short and simple means to mark-getting, but seek to help and instruct several different classes of students, we have not thought fit to restrict our notes to the clearing up of difficulties in each separate sentence, in fact to the repeating of things that 'every fourth form boy' ought to know and does not. On the contrary, while dealing with grammatical questions of an even elementary nature, we have freely illustrated the matter by quotation and reference. About The Editors: William Emerton Heitland (21 December 1847 – 23 June 1935) was an English Cambridge University based classicist who was described as having a passionate desire to attain the truth. Heitland's father, Arthur Allan Heitland, youngest child of Major William Peter Heitland of the Madras Pioneers, was a farmer and his mother, Mary Browne of Colkirk House, Lady of Nowers Manor in Hindringham, was the daughter of Riches Repps Browne (1791-1823) more commonly known as Repps Browne, a Norfolk gentleman by his wife Mary Jex (1800-1839) of Fulmodeston in Norfolk. Heitland was admitted a pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1867, a Craven scholar, 1869, B.A (Senior Classic, 1871, M.A, 1874, Fellow, 1871-1935 and Tutor, 1883-93.] He married Margaret Bateson at Marylebone in 1901, she was the daughter of William Henry Bateson, master of St John's College in 1901; She lived between 1860 and 1938. He is buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge. With his wife Margaret Heitland, a journalist and stalwart of the suffragette movement. T E Raven (B-1853), Assistant Master in Sherborne school, late scholar of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. Raven has supplied the index and list of names, though the copious index will make up for some deficiencies in cross reference, and appendix will help in understanding the plan of Alexander's Indian expedition generally.