Excerpt from Select Orations of M. Tullius Cicero: Critical and Explanatory, for the Use of Schools and Colleges
The want of a useful edition of the Orations of Cicero which are usually read in schools and colleges, has long been felt and acknowledged.
The Delphin edition, the only one available to the generality of students, was, perhaps, of all the Delphin classics, the least deserving of the patronage of the learned. The text was corrupt, the annotations were not drawn from the best sources, and the principal difficulties left unnoticed. When to this it is added, that typographical errors had been permitted to accumulate in the successive editions, so as, in many instances, to render the meaning of passages either unintelligible or exceedingly obscure, it will readily be admitted, that a favourable opportunity was afforded for the publication of a new edition, which should at least attempt to supply the deficiencies, and avoid the glaring errors of its predecessors.
This task has been attempted in the present publication. The text of Orellius has been adopted; whose elaborate edition of the works of Cicero, published at Zurich, 1826, - 1830, displays the strictest attention to sound critical principles; avoiding equally an obstinate adherence to ancient but unauthorized readings on the one hand, and reckless innovation on the other.
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