The OEdipus tyrannus of Sophocles; with English notes ... By Howard Crosby ...

PREFACE.
THIIE desire, of which this issue is the exponent, is
that college-students may have the master-piece of the
first of Greek tragic poets in convenient form. I have
attempted no criticisms upon the text, but, following chiefly
the Tauchnitz edition, have thrown in the way of Notes
such aids to the study of the Greek as may assist, not
render needless, the efforts of the student. I have, therefore, left all geogranphical and histor-ical information for
the Classical Dictionary. Too much help begets indolence,
too little begets despair; —I have striven to present the
happy mean —to furnish a cane, not a carriage.
HOWARD CROSBY.
UNIVERSITY OF TIIE CITY OF NEw-YORi,
fikay 1, 1852.