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\nhttps://archive.org/details/oppiancolluthust00oppiuoft  \nTHE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY  \nEDITED BY  \nT.E.PAGE,LITT.D.  \nE.CAPPS,PH.D.,LLD.W.H.D.ROUSE,LITT.D.  \nOPPIANCOLLUTHUSTRYPHIODORUS  \nYSA8Li JA!22A43    OI  \n780  a  \nO8           ,   95  \n4L199081HT.LIO1800OH147H  \nOppián  \n\n| PPIAN  \u003Cbr>COLLUTHUS  \u003Cbr>TRYPHIODORUS  \u003Cbr>WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY  \u003Cbr>A.W.MAIR,D.LIT.  \u003Cbr>PROFEss0R OF GREEK,EDISBCRGE USIVKR8TTY  \u003Cbr>LONDON:WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD  \u003Cbr>NEW YORK:G.P.PUTNAM'S SONS  \u003Cbr>MCMXXVIII  \u003Cbr>36  \u003Cbr>3330   |\n| --- |\n\n\n| PoIIO9  \u003Cbr>2UH0(  \u003Cbr>4253Y9n   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 在      |    86  \u003Cbr>05-   |  |\n| ,   |  | A  \u003Cbr>8   |\n| IW:   ZC  \u003Cbr>Printed in Great Britain.   |  |  |\n\n25A1  \n# PREFACE\n\nTHE present volume forms the third instalment ofthose translations from the Greek poets on which,almost by an accident,I have spent no inconsiderableportion of the little leisure of my life.If now,con-templating that work dispassionately,I am movedby some misgiving and am tempted to consider it asbeing,however useful,  \nσπovojs γe μévTou Tis eμis oůk aξuov,  \nperhaps the same sober reflection occurs to most menin looking upon the finished labour of their hands:fecine operae pretium?Be that as it may,if it shouldoccur to any,otherwise approving,to regret that Ihave selected for my purpose a series of poets who,after all,dwell rather on the lower levels of Parnassus,I am not altogether without hope that I may here-after find time to do similar homage to some choicerspirits,to Aeschylus,for example,and to Pindar:for which last,indeed,what I have hitherto writtenwas in a sense and in the first instance merely pre-paratory.But for the immediate future anothersort of work suggests itself which cannot wisely bepostponed and which one might,when too late,regretto have left unattempted.Vitae summa brevis spemn0s vetat incohare longam.Even as I write,while theSeptember sea breaks at my feet on the grey stones  \n# PREFACE\n\nof Loch Ranza,not the least prominent thought inmy mind is the moving memory of the vanishedeyes—of Sir William Ridgeway,Sir John Sandys,  \nJ.S.Reid,Arthur Platt,J.S.Phillimore,to name butthese,and of others nearer and unnamed—whichwould have looked upon these pages with a kindlyinterest,and,I would fain think,not wholly withoutapproval:EOTt 8e kaí Ti θavóvTeTσw μépos  \nkàv vóμov epδoμévov,KaTaKpπTeδ ou kóvusσvyyóvuv ke8vàv xápv.  \nSome little inconsistency in minor detail betweenone part of the book and another will be explainedby the fact that Colluthus and Tryphiodorus—apartfrom the Index—were in type so long ago as 1921,while Oppian is only now completed.  \nThis last,being largely pioneer work,has occupiedmore time and labour than one would have careddeliberately to contemplate.The identification ofthe animals mentioned,and of the fishes in particular,is a difficult and perilous task,and while I have donewhat 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