Excerpt from The Plan and Scope of a Vergil Lexicon: With Specimen Articles There are two ends which I Shall constantly keep in view until the work is finished: to make the lexicon as nearly perfect as possible from my own resources, and to issue it in its completed form within five years. AS time passes between now and the date Of publication, I may on my own initiative modify in many respects the plan which is here adopted. I Shall certainly welcome, and give the most careful consideration to, all criticisms and suggestions from scholars. 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.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... I was unable to look at the cards or to think about them. At the end of that time I took up the cards again, and again I was compelled to change the positions of many examples. Finally, after writing out the article I felt obliged to make a few more changes. The arrangement given above represents my opinion as to the classification at present; but, if I ever have occasion to revise the article, I am confident that I shall feel obliged to change a good many examples from "real motion" to "implied motion," or from "metaphorical motion" to "adnominal qualifier of a substantive expressed." Two quotations from Delbruck on classification are pertinent here. On p. 151 of his Vergleich. Syntax, II., he says: "Die erste lasst sich dahin zusammenfassen, dass man oft nicht sagen kann, ob eine Praposition in der Zusammensetzung noch etwas von ihrer ursprunglichen raumlichen Bedeutung bewahrt, oder ob sie bereits vollig zu einem Zeichen der Perfektivierung der Handlung geworden ist." Again, in the discussion of Mourek's classification of the Gothic verbal compounds with ga-on p. 159 he says: "Naturlich kann man an dieser Eintheilung, wie an allen Eintheilungen, etwas aussetzen, namentlich auch die Frage aufwerfen, ob nicht unter den angefuhrten Belegen manche sind, die besser schon als perfektivisch bezeichnet werden. Ich gehe indessen darauf nicht ein, weil nach dem was oben S. I47ff. bei lat. com bemerkt worden ist eine Entscheidung nach objektiven Kritcrien nicht moglich ist." The chart, with the principal words in the prepositional phrases arranged on the left and the words on which the phrases depend classified at the top, is intended to show...