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-- Running vocabulary on facing pages
-- Complete text
-- Full apparatus of notes
-- Glossary of proper names and places
-- Appendix clarifying rhetorical terms and political offices
-- Complete lexicon
-- Bibliography
125 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1988
For if anyone thinks that the glory won by the writing of Greek verse is naturally less than that accorded to the poet who writes in Latin, he is entirely in the wrong. Greek literature is read in nearly every nation under heaven, while the vogue of Latin is confined to its own boundaries, and they are, we must grant, narrow.