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Excerpt from A Manual of the Political Antiquities of Greece, Historically Considered: From the German of Charles Frederick Hermann For an account of the plan and pretensions of the work of which a translation is now offered to the public, the reader is referred to the author's own preface. If the translator has succeeded in giving a faithful version, he ventures to expect that the opinion of the public at large will confirm the idea of the merits of this work which first induced him to attempt a translation for his own improvement, and which, he has the satisfaction of knowing, is concurred in by eminent scholars in this country. The original form and arrangement of the work have been scrupulously adhered to, no liberties having been taken with it, excepting the omission of a few bibliographical notices from the notes of some of the earliest sections, and occasionally afterwards, when the reference was merely to a German translation of an English work, referred to in the same place without any pretension to correction or improvement of its original. In the second note on the fourth section, the translator was induced to substitute a reference to Clinton's Fasti Hellenici in lieu of a long list of old writers on the date of the Trojan war, whose opinions will be found given by him. But even such alterations as this have been avoided throughout the remainder of the work. Additions and corrections furnished by the author himself have been embodied in the translation, which will claim, in this respect, a preference over the present German edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the