Excerpt from The Alcestis of Euripides: With Notes, for the Use of Colleges in the United States The notes are more copious than they would have been, had the study of the tragic poets been more widely diffused hitherto, and been pursued under better auspices, in this country. I have aimed, not only to illustrate the idiom when rare, and the sense when doubtful, but also to notice from time to time the disposition of the plot, and the char acter of the piece in order that the student may feel, that his taste and sensibility, as well as his power of interpreting, ought to be continually called into exercise. It was felt to be important that minute points of grammar and idiom, with which the advanced scholar is perfectly familiar, should be noticed, because few students in this country have access to the best books in this department of classical learning. Among-the editors, Monk and Matthia have been of very material assistance to me, as the Notes will bear witness. Monk has faithfully availed himself of the labors of thpse who went before him, having extracted nearly all that is useful from the notes of Barnes, Musgrave, _ and others; and has brought to his work a knowledge of tragic style worthy of the successor of Porson. Matthiae's notes are mostly critical; but now and then he touches'a point of interpretation, or of idiom, with that excellently balanced judgment, and that knowledge of what others have done, which distinguishes his Grammar also above most aids to Greek study. About the Publisher 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.