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IV PREFACE. I thought it indispensable to give adequate develop- ment to this important period of Grecian history, even at the cost of that inconvenient break which terminates my tenth volume. At one time I had hoped to comprise in that volume not only the full history of Dionysius I, but also that of Dionysius II. and Dion and that of Timoleon besides. Three new chapters, including all this additional matter, are already composed and ready. But the bulk of the present volume compels me to reserve them for the commencement of my next, which will carry Grecian history down to the battle of Chaeroneia and the death of Philip of Macedon and which will, I trust, appear without any long interval of time. G. G. , FEB. 15, 1852,
