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PREFATORY NOTE.
been suspended owing to his other engagements. He is at present occupied, under the auspices of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, in editing a great collection of Latin Inscriptions—a field of labour which he has made peculiarly his own.
It is due to Dr. Schmitz, who has kindly encouraged me in this undertaking, that I should state that I alone am responsible for the execution of the translation. Whatever may be thought of it in other respects, I venture to hope that it may convey to the English reader a tolerably accurate impression of the contents and general spirit of the book.
WILLIAM P. DICKSON.
Manse of Cameron,
St. Andrews,
December, 1861.
