contra tot historicocum ... nemine contradicente, consensum,
demum agitari coepta est; et a nobis ... tam abunde ventilate,
ut magis copia quam inopia laborare videamur.
GISBERT VOET. _Spicilegium ad Disceptationem Historicam de
Papissa Johanna._



LONDON: 1878


I DEDICATE
TO MY ESTEEMED AND ESTIMABLE BROTHER
ROBERT DALRYMPLE ROSS

This Research
into
The Authorship of the Annals of Tacitus

AS A VERY SLIGHT TOKEN
OF MY AFFECTION
AND ALSO
OF MY ADMIRATION
FOR HIS RARE ASSEMBLAGE OF QUALITIES
LOFTY MORAL RECTITUDE
THE KINDLIEST FEELINGS OF THE HEART
DEVOTION TO HIGH OCCUPATION
APTITUDE FOR BOOKS AS FOR AFFAIRS

AND