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Excerpt from T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex, Vol. 1: With Notes and a Translation The present edition is divided into three volumes, the first con taining the text and critical notes, the second the commentary and general index, the third the translation. The text is practically the same as in the last edition: in one place only (i 442) a new reading is printed, and that was Only omitted before through accident as was explained at the end of the index. There are a few additions, not more than half-a-dozen, to the critical notes; these have been inserted in square brackets. The translation too has undergone no change. In the commentary there are few alterations but considerable additions amounting in all to more than twenty pages. These supple mentary notes and illustrations have been taken from an interleaved Copy Of the last edition which was found among Mr Munro's books after his death in the spring of last year. Also on p. 333 of the commentary will be found some extracts from letters addressed by him to Professor Palmer of Trinity College, Dublin, discussing the reading of V 1010; Professor Palmer was kind enough to send me these letters. As the extracts deal with the criticism rather than the explanation of the passage, they should have been inserted in the first volume; but by an accident they were delayed until after that volume was printed. Nothing has been inserted from any other source whatever. Here too all that is new has been inclosed in square brackets. In the new examples the references have been verified. To the index large additions have been made by myself. 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.