ANCIENTS -1762 Introduction by Wallace Jackson PUBLICATION AN ESSAY ON THE LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS; In TWO LETTERS ANCIENT S. HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES Lord Deskfoord . This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding, including a number of citations in accented Greek: θήκαο δ’ οἰωνῶν μέγ’ ὑπείροχον ἀγγελιώτην If these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browser’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser’s default font. All Greek passages include mouse-hover transliterations. Longer passages have separate transliterations for each sentence or verse line. A few typographical errors have been corrected. They have been marked in the text with mouse-hover popups. Longer or more complicated errors are discussed at the end of the e-text in notes identified by The Augustan Reprint SocietyJOHN OGILVIE |