Excerpt from Language and Character of the Roman People: Translated From the German of Oscar Weise With Additional Notes and References for English Readers T is hoped that this translation of the suggestive work of Professor Weise may prove useful to Classical Students in Britain and America. We have endeavoured to render it so by adding refer emees to English works on the subjects dealt with in the text and notes, and by a few additions and suggestions, particularly with regard to the ety mology of certain words, for which we are mainly indebted to the full and scholarly work of Professor Walde of Innsbruck. The notes at the end will be found to contain many valuable references to the literature published in Germany in recent treatises dealing with the subject matter of the text. To the Bibliography at the end of the Appendix should be added the valuable work of Mr. Duff, A Literary History of Rome, Fisher Unwin, 1909. 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.