PREFACE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2010
Summary
In editing the third and concluding Volume of Euripides, full use has been made of Adolph Kirchhoff's critical recension and notes. The aid of this, the latest and by much the best German edition of the poet, was unfortunately wanting in the two preceding volumes, the present work having been commenced just about the time when the other was published, and the very existence of it having remained so far unknown to the Editor, residing in the country and enjoying few opportunities of consulting or even hearing of new publications. Much and sincerely as this omission is regretted, chiefly on account of the copious and accurate collations of the best MSS. supplied by Kirchhoff's notes, it has proved practically of the less importance, because both editions were undertaken on the same general principle, of restoring as far as possible, and as far as was consistent with the now established canons both of language and of metre, the most authentic readings, and eliminating many hundreds of barely probable conjectural emendations, which had gradually found sanction and acceptance under the great names of Valckenaer, the Dindorfs, Hermann, Elmsley, and others of the same school.
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- EuripidesWith an English Commentary, pp. v - xxxivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1860