Excerpt from Stories From Aulus Gellius: Being Selections and Adaptations From the Noctes Atticae; Edited, With Notes, Exercises, and Vocabularies for the Use of Lower Forms
The Editor acknowledges his obligations to the Latin Grammars of Dr. Kennedy and Mr. Roby, and to Dr. Smith's Dictionaries of Biography and Antiquities, and to similar works which lie at every schoolmaster's elbow.
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