Excerpt from Syntax of Early Latin, Vol. 2: Vol; II the Cases
In the present volume I have changed several texts to which reference is made. Ennius is cited uniformly according to the text of Vahlen, with parallel references to Ribbeck for the dramatic fragments. Lucilius is cited according to Marx; while for the Orators I have referred to the edition of Meyer (1842), in place of the edition of Meyer-Diibner, which was the only edition to which I had access in publishing Volume I. The other writers are cited as in the previous volume. Yet I have nowhere bound myself to the text of any editor. It has seemed necessary to call attention to this, since some readers have assumed that in citing by the page or verse of a special editor I have committed myself to his text. It ought to be superfluous to say that such is not the case and that I have deviated in hundreds of instances from the readings of the special editions to which I have referred. I only hope that my own readings may seem in the main sound and justified.
My task in the preparation of this second volume has been much more difficult than I had anticipated. Barring a few of the more recent monographs, I soon found that the treatises on which I had hoped largely to depend, were extremely defective, not only lacking a large proportion of the important material, but being based, in great measure, on conjectural readings of the past generation. Not infrequently false interpretations added to the confusion. Under these circumstances, it became necessary to make my own special collections to supplement the obvious lacun? encountered at almost every turn. The expenditure of time and labor thus caused have unquestionably been greater than if I had made independent collections of the entire material from the beginning.
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