BY AUSTIN DOBSON Majores majora sonent MARTIAL NINTH EDITION NEW YORK. E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY LONDON EGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO. LTD 113 PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION To the fifth edition of 1902 was added a selection from a little volume entitled Carmina Votiva, printed for private circulation in July 1901; while, in the sixth edition of 1905, the notes-especially those to the "Ballad of Beau Brocade"-were extended. To the eighth edition, under the heading Ludibria Ventis, was subjoined a fresh section of occasional pieces, written for the most part by request. Fourteen of these had already been published in the volume of prose and verse called De Libris, 1908, 1911; and were reproduced with the concurrence of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. A further group of twenty-seven later poems, additions and translations, is now included in the present issue. AUSTIN DOBSON |