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Excerpt from Recueil De Versions Latines Données À la Sorbonne Et Dans Les Facultés Des Départements, Pour Les Examens Du Baccalauréat De l'Enseignement Secondaire De 1911 À 1915, Vol. 1: Textes Latins Optime facis, quod bellum Dacicum scribere paràs. Nam quza tam recens, tam copiosa, tam lata, quae denique tam poetica, et quamquam in verissitniè rebus, tam fabulosa materia? Dices immissa terris nova uxn1na, novos pontes Huminibus injectos, insessa castris montium abrupta, pulsum regia, pulsum etiam vita regem nihil desperantem; super haec actos bis triumphos. Una, sed maxima diffi cultas, quod haec acquare dicendo arduum, immen sum etiam tuo ingenio, quamquam altissime assurgat et amplissimis operibus increscat. Non nullus et-in illo labor, ut barbara et fera nomina, in primis regis ipsius, Graecis versibus non resultent. Sed nihil est, quod non arte curaque, si non potest vinci, miti getur. Praetereai si detur Homem et mollia vocabula et Greece ad levitatem versus contrahere, extendere, inflectere, cur tibi similis audentia praesertim non delicata, sed necessaria, non detur? Proinde jure vatum invocatis dis, et inter eos ipso, cujus res. 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.