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Excerpt from The Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown The present edition has received as thorough a revision as the means at my command would allow. The text (which is that of W. Dindorf has been carefully compared with that of the best editions, and with the various readings given in Dobson's edition of the Attic orators. The notes have been almost entirely rewritten, and adapted to side-sections in the text, instead of pages and lines. The side-section; are the same as those employed by Dissen, to whose excellent edition of the Oration I am much indebted inn-many other respects. A short Appendix on the Documents, and a pretty copious In dex, have been added, which, it is hoped, will not be without their use. I have referred unifomly to the Greek School Grammar of K iihner, as most satisfactorily solving, according to my view, the various questions which arise in reading, Greek. The readers of this edition cannot fail to be grateful to the enterprising printers, who have the honor of having first in troduced into this country the elegant Porsonian type in which the text appears. They will have occasion to be equally grateful to Professor C. C. Felton, of Harvard University, under whose critical and tasteful eye all the sheets have pass ed, for the general accuracy and much of the value of the 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 original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.