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PREFACE. 



competent. The contributions have received the 

 approval of the Committee, and been specially ac- 

 knowledged in each volume. 



The first and thirty-third books of Pliny were 

 translated by Dr. Bostock in 1828, as specimens of 

 a new version, which, but for his death, would in all 

 probability have been completed. Of the notes ap- 

 pended to these sample chapters, such use has been 

 made as subserves the purposes of our republishing 

 Pliny in English ; but, in the main, they are found to 

 be more critical than explanatory. 



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Bone Ticket of Admission to the Amphitheatre, found at Pompeii 



