Come here. YOUNG MAN (_to the young girl_). Oh! I adjure you, don't let me be led off by her!
SECOND OLD WOMAN: 'Tis not I; 'tis the law that leads you off.
YOUNG MAN: No, 'tis not the law, but an Empusa with a body covered with blemishes and blotches.
SECOND OLD WOMAN: Follow me, my handsome little friend, come along quick without any more ado.
YOUNG MAN: Oh! let me first do the needful, so that I may gather my wits somewhat. Else I should be so terrified that you would see me letting out something yellow.
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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