published a verse translation of the Plutus.1 Prof. K. Conradt has published Part iii. of Die metrische und rhythmische Composition der Komödien der Aristophanes.2 Dr W. Crönert, Die Spruche des Epicharm,3 has published a new collation of the Hibeh fragment of Epicharmus. The most important work of the year in reference to Comedy is Dr J. W. White's exhaustive treatise on The Verse of Greek Comedy. Mention may be here made conveniently of K. Ohlert's Rätsel und Katselspiele der alten Griechen.5

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Mr G. W. Mooney has published an edition of the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, the first English edition since that of Shaw in 1777, which was so mercilessly treated by Brunck. The introduction deals briefly but judiciously with the evidence as to the life of Apollonius, the sources of his poem, its leading characteristics, and the MSS. and scholia; there are appendices on the double recension of the Argonautica, and on the metre of the poem. The commentary is good, and the book is an important and useful work. Mr R. C. Seaton has published a very readable prose translation of the Argonautica (with the text) in the Loeb Classical Library; so that English students of Apollonius are now well provided for.

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In the same series Mr J. M. Edmonds has published a prose translation (with text) of The Greek Bucolic Poets,s and this he has supplemented by some notes in the Classical Review. Mr. A. S. Way has produced a translation in English verse (mainly in long metres) of the same poets,10 and a discussion of the First Idyll of Theocritus has been published by Mr H. W. Prescott.11

1 London: Murray; 5s. net. See Class. Rev. 1913, p. 178.

2 Greifenberg: Progr.; 2 m.

3 Berl. Sitzungsberichte, 1912, p. 404.

4 London: Macmillan; 12s. net. See also p. 107; and Class. Rev. 1913, p. 96.

5 Berlin: Mayer & Müller; 6 m.

6 London: Longmans; 12s. 6d. net.

7 London: Heinemann; 5s. net. See Class. Rev. 1913, p. 98.

8 Ibid.

9 Class. Rev. 1913, 1 p.

10 Cambridge Univ. Press; 5s. net.

11 Class. Quart. 1913, p. 176.

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Thucydides, Book II., has been edited by Mr T. R. Mills,1 with an introduction by Mr H. Stuart Jones, and Book IV. by Mr A. W. Spratt.2 Mr H. Richards has discussed the Text of Thucydides in three articles. Col. Arthur Boucher has edited L'Anabase de Xenophon, avec un Commentaire historique et militaire, with forty-eight maps, etc. The pseudo-Xenophontic 'AOŋvaiwv TOλiteia has been elaborately edited by Prof. Ernst Kalinka; besides the text (10 pp.), and translation (10 pp.), there is a commentary of 233 pp., linguistic and historical: and a brief introduction. The editor's own emendations are not very convincing. A translation of the same little treatise has been published by Prof. F. Brooks, under the title of An Athenian Critic of Athenian Democracy. This should be very useful to English students of Athenian politics. Lysias has been edited for the Oxford Classical Texts by Dr. C. Hude.7 The Public Orations of Demosthenes have been translated, with an introduction and some notes, by A. W. PickardCambridge. Prof. H. Francotte has begun a series of Etudes sur Démosthenes, the first of which deals with the orator's policy in regard to the Oewpikά.

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Mr R. Hackforth has written a book on The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles,10 which is of value not only as a very capable discussion of its primary theme, but also as illustrating the value and the limitations of stylometry, upon which the writer takes a very sane view. He regards Epp. iii., iv., vii., viii., xiii. as genuine. The First Epistle has also been discussed recently by W. O. Immisch.11 The Ion of Plato has been well edited by Mr J. M. Macgregor.12 1 Oxford: Clarendon Press; 3s. 6d. 2 Cambridge Univ. Press; 6s. 3 Class. Quart. 1912, pp. 137 and 217; 1913, p. 145.

4 Paris: Hachette ; 25 fr.

5 Leipzig: Teubner; 10 m. See also p. 112.

6 London: Nutt; 1s. 6d. net. 7 Oxford: Clarendon Press; 3s. 6d.

8 Oxford: Clarendon Press; 2 vols., 3s. 6d. each.

9 Musée Belge, 1913, p. 69.

10 Manchester University Press; 6s. net. See also p. 151.

11 Philologus, 1913, 1 p. (Also published separately, 1.20 m.)

12 Cambridge University Press; 2s.

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Two translations of Philostratus' On Apollonius have appeared during the year, the one by Mr F. C. Conybeare in the Loeb Classical Library,1 the other by Prof. J. S. Phillimore, the latter a very brilliant piece of work, with a striking introduction, and some useful textual notes. The Loeb Classical Library also includes a translation of the first half of Appian's Roman History, by H. White.3 Prof. T. G. Tucker has translated Select Essays of Plutarch.1

Dr. R. Foerster has completed (by the issue of vol. vii.)5 his edition of the declamations attributed to Libanius. M. R. Laqueur has published a new text of Polybius.

1 London: Heinemann; 5s. net.

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A. W. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE.

2 Oxford: Clarendon Press; 2 vols., 3s. 6d. each. See Class. Rev. 1913, p. 57.

3 London: Heinemann; 2 vols., each 5s. net.

4 Oxford: Clarendon Press; 3s. 6d.

5 Leipzig: Teubner; 15 m.

6 Leipzig: Teubner; 10 m.

See also pp. 111, 121.

XIX

LATIN LITERATURE

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THE first place is due to the papers 1 of A. W. Verrall, whose death has left scholarship dull. His Studies include his subtle analyses of the Latin sapphic and hendecasyllable, his brilliant identification of Horace's Lamia, and other Horatiana. The Essays, to which a memoir is prefixed, are largely devoted to Propertius, Martial, and Statius; they show his revivifying art at its best; they are rich in verserenderings of great skill and tact; and the papers on Propertius go deep into the question of the plot (so to speak) of the first three books.

Two large histories of Roman literature are undergoing revision. M. Schanz's third edition, which takes account of work as recent as 1912, has now covered the years from A.D. 14 to 117, in 579 pages instead of the 241 of the first. The second volume of the new Teuffel (edited by W. Kroll and the late F. Skutsch) has been followed by the third,3 which extends from A.D. 96 to the eighth century; and the first is announced to appear soon. Of a different type, less bibliographical, and enlightened by his own views and sympathies, is F. Leo's new Geschichte der Römischen Litteratur.* The first volume has appeared, and deals with

1 Collected Literary Essays, Classical and Modern, and Collected Studies in Greek and Latin Scholarship, by A. W. Verrall, edited by M. A. Bayfield and J. D. Duff (Cambridge: University Press, 1913); 10s. 6d. net each. See also p. 157.

2 München: Beck, 1913; 2. Teil, 2. Hälfte; 10 m. (bound, 12 m.).

3 Leipzig: Teubner, 1913, pp. 579; 10 m.

+ Berlin: Weidmann, 1913, vol. i., pp. 496; 12 m.