PAID BY CAMBRIDGE TO OXFORD
IN THE APPOINTMENT OF THE OXFORD LATIN PROFESSOR
AS ONE OF THE ELECTORS TO HER LATIN CHAIR. PREFACE. In venturing to follow up my translation of the Odes of Horace by a
version of the Satires and Epistles, I feel that I am in no way
entitled to refer to the former as a justification of my boldness in
undertaking the latter. Both classes of works are doubtless
explicable as products of the same original genius: but they differ
so widely in many of their characteristics, that success in
rendering the one, though greater than any which I can hope to have
attained, would afford no presumption that the translator would be
found to have the least aptitude for the other. As a matter of fact,
while the Odes still continue to invite translation after
translation, the Satires and Epistles, popular as they were among
translators and imitators a hundred years ago, have scarcely been
attempted at all since that great revolution in literary taste which
was effected during the last ten years of the last century and the
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