Horatius Restitutus

Excerpt from Horatius Restitutus

Mr. Clinton himself on being informed of my intention gives me the kindest encouragement to he ap proves Of my undertaking so useful a work as an edition Of the books of Horace, arranged in chronological and he assigns as a reason for his approbation, that the neglect of that order has produced much perplexity to the student not of Horace only, but of many other authors of the Augustan age. Under all these circumstances, I now am emboldened to proceed in the task and as the design in the first instance is submitted to the judgement of scholars, which it candidly invites, I Shall at once lay before them as preliminary to all other disquisition the following extract from Bentley's Pree fatio. The title is copied from the formula adopted by Gesner, who in his edition of Horace gives all this extract except what stands as the first section of and the divi sion here made of the whole into parts commodious for re ferenc'e, will on that account be readily allowed.