Excerpt from Contributions to Latin Lexicography IN 1875 the Delegates Of the Oxford University Press proposed to me that I should undertake the compilation of a new latin-english Lexicon, Of something the same compass as the greek-english Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. I acceded to the proposal in the expectation, for which I had at the time what appeared to be good grounds, that I should Obtain adequate assistance in the work. My hopes were, however, disappointed. With the exception of some isolated contributions from ...
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Excerpt from Contributions to Latin Lexicography IN 1875 the Delegates Of the Oxford University Press proposed to me that I should undertake the compilation of a new latin-english Lexicon, Of something the same compass as the greek-english Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. I acceded to the proposal in the expectation, for which I had at the time what appeared to be good grounds, that I should Obtain adequate assistance in the work. My hopes were, however, disappointed. With the exception of some isolated contributions from friends, which will be mentioned in their place, I failed to get anything like the amount Of steady co-operation which I had looked for, and without which it would have been madness to put my hand to such a task. By the summer Of 1887 I had completed nearly all the letter A (a tenth part of the whole work), and had also written a number of articles and notes under the other letters. The Delegates of the Press then made a second proposal, that I should publish, in a volume Of moderate Size, such parts Of my manuscript as appeared to me to contain additions to, or improvements upon, what may be found in the current latin-english dictionaries. It is necessary to recapitulate these facts, in order to explain the fragmentary character of the present work. The volume contains about half of What I had written under the letter A, and most of my notes and articles under the other letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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