Excerpt from Sophoclean Fragments My Euripidean Fragments and Observaciones acerca de los Fragmentos de Esquilo were so drawn up by me as to constitute, in a true sense, supplements to Nauck's Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta: I was thus enabled to avoid, even in substance, the utterly superfluous repetition of a large part of Nauck's most masterly apparatus criticus. Similarly I should frame this book, dealing with the Fragments of Sophocles, as a supplement to Nauck, were it not for the fact that, as regards Sophocles, his work has been, in a manner, superseded by Pearson's recent edition of that poet's Fragments: but as it is, in view of the appearance of that edition, which in some respects I cannot praise too highly, I have composed instead what is, so to speak, a supplement thereto, not to Nauck's treatment. But it must not be thought that I am in general agreement with Pearson to the same extent that I am with Nauck. Pearson belongs, though hardly, I think, without a certain real difference, to the school of Jebb: I do not. Jebb's brilliance is the admiration of scholars and his services to learning are incontestable; but, for all that, I cannot - it may be my misfortune - quite say of him, as Henry the Eighth, in his happier days, said of Colet: "This is the doctor for me!" Neither, indeed, do I follow Nauck blindly; but my detestation of the pseudo-science of Germany is a reasoned detestation, extending in no way to the splendid achievement of such giants as Dindorf, as Meineke, or (though he be of lesser stature) as Nauck himself. 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.