Excerpt from Martial, the Epigrammatist, and Other Essays At the request of a number of his students and asso ciates, I have collected a few of the less technical papers of my friend and colleague kirby F lower smith; and now, thanks to the liberal policy of the Johns Hopkins Press, I am able to offer them to a wider circle of read ers. As the two lectures on Ovid and Propertius may suggest, Professor smith was especially interested in the graeco-roman Elegy. I am sorry that I could not in clude here a somewhat similar study he had made of Tibullus. For this, I can only refer the reader to the introduction of his masterly edition of Tibullus (new York: American Book Co. 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.