DUBLIN UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES. DUBLIN TRANSLATIONS INTO GREEK AND LATIN VERSE EDITED BY ROBERT YELVERTON TYRRELL FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK DUBLIN: HODGES FIGGIS & CO. GRAFTON-STREET BY R. Y. TYRRELL. BACCHAE of EURIPIDES. London: Longmans & Co., 1871., MILES GLORIOSUS OF PLAUTUS. London: Macmillan & Co. (1st ed., 1881 ; 2nd ed., 1885; TROADES of EURIPIDES. Dublin : Browne and Nolan, 1889 (1st. ed., 1881 ; 2nd ed., 1884). ACHARNIANS OF ARISTOPHANES:-Trans- lated into English Verse. London: Longmans THE CORRESPONDENCE OF M, TULLIUS CICERO. Vol. I. London: Longmans & Co. Printed at THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, Dublin. PR 1179 G7 Tq 1890 Mann TO THE PROVOST, AND TO THE SOCIETY OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY NEAR DUBLIN This Book IS DEDICATED. 327919 PREFACE. This is the first collection which has ever been made of DUBLIN GREEK and LATIN VERSES. In 1867 some translations by myself and two friends were published under the title Hesperidum Susurri; and in 1869 I set on foot a terminal College magazine, called Kottabos, in which translations into Greek and Latin appeared, together with original English, Greek, and Latin verses, translations from ancient and modern languages, and a few light essays in prose. Most of the translations now brought together have already appeared in Hesperidum Susurri and Kottabos. They are all by Dublin men. With one or two exceptions, all the contributors are, or have been, Scholars of the House. Some of the translators are now connected, or have been |