
Excerpt from Select Orations of Lysias American editions, -though of German editions there is no lack. Certainly it is not attributable to any inferiority, either in merit of style or in interest of subject, in those specimens of his numerous orations which have come down to us. Such was his ancient fame, that nearly twice as many orations as he actually composed were ascribed to him. The large number of two hundred and thirty orations was accepted by the an cient critics as genuinely his, of which there are now extant only thirty-four, not all either complete or indisputably genu ine, and a stib larger number of fragments. 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.
Page Count:
176
Publication Date:
2018-05-02
Publisher:
1kg Limited
ISBN-10:
1331259754
ISBN-13:
9781331259756
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!