Help! Help! You neighbours, relatives, fellow citizens, help me—I’m begging you! I’m being beaten up! Owww, I’m in such pain— my head . . . my jaw.
You good for nothing, are you hitting your own father?
Yes, dad, I am.
See that! He admits he’s beating me.
I do indeed.
You scoundrel, criminal— a man who abuses his own father!
Go on—keep calling me those very names— the same ones many times. Don’t you realize I just love hearing streams of such abuse?
You perverted asshole!
Ah, some roses!
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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