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The Students' Series of Latin Classics

LATIN HYMNS

SELECTED AND ANNOTATED

BY

WILLIAM A. MERRILL

PROFESSOR OF LATIN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

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BENJ. H. SANBORN & CO.

BOSTON, U.S.A.

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PREFACE

LATIN hymns appeal to students on many grounds. Some appreciate the poetry, some the religious character, and a few the theological learning; while to others the changes in the language and the development in metrical treatment and versification prove attractive. Others, still, are interested in medieval thought and in literary history. Many of these hymns have exercised such wide influence that an acquaintance with them would seem to be desirable for broad literary culture, if for no other reason.

The best results have been gained by encouraging students to sing the hymns in the original and to hunt up English metrical versions and musical settings. Literal translation and close philological treatment should not be encouraged.

In the preparation of the Introduction and Notes the editor would acknowledge his great indebtedness to Julian's "Dictionary of Hymnology."

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
September, 1904.

W. A. M.

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