PREFACE TO NEW 
EDITION. 
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Tire present edition of Leverett’s Lexicon will be found to be much improved by the 
transfer to its columns of the classical distinctions of the words from the Lexicon of Dr. 
William Freund, of Germany. Tfte classical character of the words is marked by placing 
a figure directly under the first letter of the word in its column ; except that where there 
is not room for this, the figure is generally inserted at or near the end of the line. 
1. A word with no figure under it, is Classical , and folly Ciceronian; or else it is a 
proper name, to which classic laws do not apply. 
2. The figure 1, placed under a word, denotes that it is rare in Cicero. These words 
are Classical , but not of the first authority ; though many of them are peculiar to that 
writer. 
3. The figure 2, placed under a word, denotes that it is Classical, but not Ciceronian. 
The classical prose writers are Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Velleius, Celsus, the two Sen¬ 
ecas, Quintilian, Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the elder, and Pliny the younger. 
4. The figure 3, placed under a word, denotes that it does not belong to classical prose. 
Some of these words are Ante-Classical, and some of them are occasionally found in the 
Poets; but most of them are Post-Classical , belonging to Low Latin , Ecclesiastical Latin , 
Medieval Latin , and many of them to the Nero or Modern Latin, coined chiefly for the 
convenience of the sciences. 
While transferring the above notes and marks, a catalogue was very carefully made out, 
of all the words in each Lexicon, which are not found in the other. On comparing these 
catalogues, it was found that the number of additional words in each Lexicon is nearly 
equal; the difference being sometimes in favor of the one, and sometimes of the other. 
But the value and importance of the additional words found in Leverett, so far as a knowl¬ 
edge of the Latin language is concerned, very far exceeds that of those found in Freund ; 
the distinction in favor of the former consisting chiefly in Latin words found in good, and 
often in classical writers ; and the distinction in favor of the latter consisting chiefly in 
1 New or Modern Latin Scientific Terms , and Proper Names. 
The Etymological Index , from the same source as the above, will be found a valuable 
- acquisition. 
Boston, 1850. 
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, 
By J. H. Wilkins, 
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 
