Excerpt from Epigrams, Ancient and Modern: Humorous, Witty, Satirical, Moral, and PanegyricalThe Greek epigrams are said to be valuable as historical inscriptions, as contemporary records of public transactions 5 many Of them, as disclosing to us the still more interesting events of private life In these evidently written from the heart, we have the loves and the enmities, the hopes and the dis appointments, the joys and the sorrows, of that sensitive and intellectual people 5 sometimes chain ing us in astonishment by sublimity of thought, and sometimes subduing the heart by the most pathetic touches Of tenderness. Their inscriptions are well calculated to enlarge the mind, to strengthen the judgment, and to refine the taste. 'they are the sole vehicles Of her earliest history, the sole memorials Of her honoured dead, ' and are appealed to by later writers with all the confidence that sure indisputable testimony is calculated to inspire. They serve -to chronicle each great event that in!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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