title: Archaic and Classical Greece: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation
author: Michael Crawford
description: A sourcebook in translation covering the history of Greece from archaic times through to the rise of Philip of Macedon. Sources translated are mainly the Greek historians themselves.
zlib_text: THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
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  OPPIAN
  COLLUTHUS
  TRVPHIODORUS
  
  OPPIAN.
  COLLUTHUS,
  TRYPHIODORUS
  WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
  A. W. MAIR,
  D.LiiT.
  PROFESSOR OF GRF.EK, EDINBURGH UNIVEESITr
  LONDON
  : WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
  NEW YORK
  : G.
  P. PUTNAM'S SONS
  MCMXX\an
  
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  Printed in Great Britain.
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  PREFACE
  The present volume forms the
  third instakaent of
  those translations from the Greek poets on which,
  almost by an accident, I have spent no inconsiderable
  portion of the little leisure of mj- life.
  If now, con-
  temiplating that work dispassionately,
  I am moved
  Tby some misgi\"ing and am tempted to consider it as
  being, however useful,
  (nrovSijs ye
  [xkiroi
  rijs
  c/^i'^S ovk a^tov,
  f)erhaps the same sober reflection occurs to most men
  n looking upon the finished labour of their hands
  :
  fecine operae pretium ?
  Be that as it may, if it should
  occur to any, otherwise approving, to regret that I
  have selected for my purpose a ser