The Geography of Strabo, Vol. 1

PREFACE

PROFESSOR JOHN ROBERT SITLINGTON STERRETT, the eminent scholar who was originally chosen by the editors of the Loeb Classical Library A series of books containing Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations. to prepare this edition of Strabo, died suddenly on June 15, 1914. His many friends and colleagues in the world of scholarship were greatly disappointed that he was thus prevented from completing a task that would have been a fitting conclusion to a long and notable career. In accordance with a desire he expressed to me shortly before his death, and at the invitation of the editors, I have ventured—not without hesitation—to carry on the work from the point where his labors ceased.

The Introduction and the Bibliography remain substantially as they were left by Professor Sterrett; and the translation of the first two books, contained in Volume I, not only is indebted to him for much of its phrasing, but reveals in other elements of style many traces of his personality. Nevertheless, the