What record of mere battles and sieges, wars and facts, could afford such fulness of knowledge, as to the real state of Greece, in all points which are most instructive, as we derive from the pamphlets (as they may be called) of Isocrates, from the dialogues of Plato, the moral and political treatises of Aristotle, and the various public and private orations of Isæus, Eschines, and Demosthenes?

ARNOLD'S History of Rome.

PLAN OF THE WORK.

THE object of the present undertaking is twofold; first, to present in a legible form to the English reader certain speeches of Demosthenes, hitherto untranslated, and not so well known as they deserve to be; secondly, to render some assistance to the student in the perusal of the author himself. For the former purpose I deemed it essential to translate freely, and in an English style, so as to avoid archaisms and harsh constructions. At the same time, it has been my constant aim to represent the full force and meaning of every passage in the original, and I trust that, though not rendering word for word, I still may be found a faithful interpreter. The scholar will not look for that sort of assistance, which consists in the solution of grammatical difficulties, though perhaps he may occasionally find me a useful guide in unravelling the author's meaning, or following the course of the argument.

In the writings of Demosthenes there occur a great variety of technical terms, connected with matters of law and business, which it is desirable to have correctly translated. To many indeed of these there is nothing in our own language exactly similar or corresponding; and the translator is often com