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Excerpt from Thucydides, Vol. 1: Traslated Into English, to Which Is Prefixed an Essay on Inscription Sna a Note on the Geography of Thucydides Nature of the study, ix; where inscriptions are found, x process of restoring, deciphering, fixing the date, xi; Messenians of Naupaetus, Alcibiades, xii; Mitylene, xiii; ancient forms of letters and words, xiii, xiv; illustrations of Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plutarch, Pausanias, &c., xv; mention of Sophocles, xviii; inscriptions compared with mss., xviii, xix restoration of them assisted by uniformity of writing and con tents. Xix; danger of conjectural explanations, which are sometimes overthrown by later discoveries, xxi, cp. Xlv, lii; inscriptions illustrate antiquities more than history, xxiv; ostracism, accounts of the 'board of Admiralty, ' and Erechtheum, xxiv, xxv; inscriptions chiey belong to later times, use of them by the ancients, xxv interest of them as relics of the past, xxvi; the Oldest are comparatively recent, xxvii; literary interest, xxix; forgery, xxx. 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.