No—not even the far-reaching rays of sun have ever shone as splendidly as he, the man who brings with him his lovely wife, too beautiful for words, and brandishing the winged thunderbolt from Zeus. Sweet smells are rising up, high into heaven’s vault, a glorious spectacle, and wisps of smoke from burning incense are blown far and wide. Here he is in person. Let the sacred Muse open her lips in a triumphal holy song.
Back off, break up, make room—
Frederick William Hall (1865–1948) was a classical scholar and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Together with William Martin Geldart, he produced the Oxford Classical Text of several authors. Hall was a careful editor known for his thorough collation of manuscripts and his conservative approach to textual criticism.
The Hall–Geldart editions in the Oxford Classical Texts series provide reliable critical texts with selective apparatus criticus. The OCT series, established in 1894 as the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, aims to present the best available Greek and Latin texts in a format suitable for both scholarly use and teaching. Each volume provides a clean text with the most significant manuscript variants recorded at the foot of each page.
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