Excerpt from The Alcestis of Euripides: With Notes, for the Use of Colleges in the United States The editor gave his first edition of Alcestis to the public in 1833, and another revised with care in 1837. Another still being now called for, he has done what he could amid pressing engagements, and in a short time, to make it some what less imperfect than its predecessors. In the preface, the paragraph relating to the date of the play has been changed for an obvious reason. A newly discovered portion has been inserted in the Greek argument. The text has been altered in about sixteen places, in conformity with the views of critics and Manuscript authority. Finally, the metres have been differently constituted in four or five places, and a number of notes have been added for which the edi tor is indebted in great part to the edition with Hermann's notes (leipzig, to Pflugk's Gotha and Ma jor's (london. 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.