at once to the conclusion that it was best to spell them in the usual English manner altogether. Vergil for Virgil or Ouid for Ovid seem to me as bad as Livorn would be for Leghorn or Firence for Florence. But where a word has been taken unchanged, except in the symbol for vowel or spirant, the matter is not so simple. I must here plead guilty to the weakness of retaining our English form of very familiar words such as Nerva, Juno, Servius, Flavius, decemvir, &c.
The spelling is intended to be that of the Ciceronian period.
The dates are those of the city (A.V.C.) according to Zumpt's Annales. Where an event is not mentioned in that chronology, its date is here fixed by reference to the consulship under which it happened and the year given by Zumpt for that consulship.
The only references which do not speak for themselves are those of Corssen's Aussprache, Vokalismus, und Betonung, in which the pageing of the second edition, and those to Ortolan's Explication Historique des Instituts, in which the number by sections of the eight edition, is followed. To the interesting and valuable work last mentioend I may here testify my very deep obligation.
