Lectures and Essays on Subjects Connected with Latin Literature and Scholarship (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)

The celebrated classical scholar and lexicographer Henry Nettleship 18391893 published this volume in 1885 while he was Professor of Latin at Corpus Christi College Oxford The volume is a revised collection of his published articles up to 1884 on the topic of Latin literature along with a number of his unpublished lectures given in Oxford between 1884 and 1878 The volume includes an essay on the German philologist Moritz Haupt 18081874 early Italian civilization and literature the Latin authors Cicero Catullus Virgil and Horace the Latin grammarians Nonius Marcellus Verrius Flaccus and Aulus Gellius and reviews of text critical editions of Latin works such as Georg Thilo s edition of Servius Maurus Honoratus complete works 18781902 This collection of essays and lectures is a valuable source for the theories and ideas of a nineteenth century Latinist who continues to influence Latin scholarship