Excerpt from The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus: With Notes and a Translation

Some few years ago, I brought out an edition of Catullus, designed for the use of those whose Latin, by lapse of time and stress of other occupation, had lost its freshness.

The present book is intended for the same class of readers and will, I hope, more effectually fulfil its purpose.

My previous book was, on the whole, kindly received by the reviewers: some, however, complained that I had annotated several poems that it would have been better to have left unexplained. It is a difficult question to decide what an editor"s duties are in such cases; but, as these notes evidently gave offence, I have left them out.

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