our thoughts and aims in unity— honest, pious, just, sincere, to go against the gods up there, if we’re both singing the same song the gods won’t have my sceptre long.
Whatever can be done with force alone
we’re ready to take on—what requires brains or thinking through, all that stuff’s up to you.
That’s right, by Zeus. No time for
dozing now,
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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