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CONTENTS OF VOLUME LVII

TRANSACTIONS

I. A Defense of the Nine-Book Tradition of Pliny's

Letters

SELATIE EDGAR STOUT

5

II. The Great Fish in Ancient and Medieval Story

CORNELIA CATLIN COULTER

III. Word Contamination in the Italic Dialects

ROLAND GRUBB KENT

32

51

IV. The Last Assessment of the Athenian Empire

ALLEN BROWN WEST

V. The Harmonics of Ptolemy and the Lacuna in II,

60

VI. The Vatican Fragment of Phaedrus (Plates XLIV-

71

96

VII. Non-Suetonian Passages in the Life of Vergil

formerly ascribed to Donatus

107

RUSSEL MORTIMER GEER

VIII.

The So-called Emphatic Position of the Runover

Word in the Homeric Hexameter

116

SAMUEL ELIOT BASSETT

IX. The Ovidian Authorship of the Lygdamus Elegies

149

ROBERT SOMERVILLE RADFORD

X. The Literary Influence of Cicero on Juvenal

HOMER FRANKLIN REBERT

XIII. Ovidian Vocabulary and the Culex Question

FREDERICK WILLIAM SHIPLEY

XIV. A New Literary Fragment on Demosthenes (Plate

XLVI).

WARREN EVERETT BLAKE

PROCEEDINGS

261

275

I. Program of the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting,

Cambridge, Massachusetts

i

II.

Minutes

viii

III.

Abstracts

1. Cicero's De Oratore and Horace's Ars Poetica

GEORGE CONVERSE FISKE AND MARY A. GRANT

xvii

2. Early Ecclesiastical Literature and its Im-

portance to Classical Scholars

ROY JOSEPH DEFERRARI

xviii

3. Official Stamps on Papyrus Documents under

Domitian and Hadrian

xviii

LEIV AMUNDSEN

4. Interpretation of a Papyrus Letter

xix

ROBERT CHISOLM HORN

5. A New Fragment of the Shepherd of Hermas

CAMPBELL BONNER

9. A Chapter in the History of Pity; Pity in

the Iliad

xxii

GRACE HARRIET MACURDY

10. A Political Cartoon of the Sixth Century B.C.

HENRY ROY WILLIAM SMITH

xxii

11. Roman Rhetoric as Training for the Bar

xxiii

DEAN PUTNAM LOCKWOOD

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12. The Humanity of the Romans

HELEN H. TANZER

13. A New Manuscript of Virgilius Maro Gram-

maticus

JOHN JOSEPH SAVAGE

14. The Manuscripts of the Florilegium of the

Letters of Symmachus

JAMES EUGENE DUNLAP

15. The Correspondence of Saint John Chryso-

stom

PAUL ROBINSON COLEMAN-NORTON

xxiii

xxiv

XXV

xxvi

19. Ancient Greece as Depicted in a Medieval

Outline of History

CHARLES CHRISTOPHER MIEROW

20. Corcyra and the Peloponnesian War

xxix

ASHTON WAUGH MCWHORTER

21. The Ships of Columbus in Brant's Vergil.

ANNA COX BRINTON

xxxi

22. The Secretaries of the Athenian Boule in the

Fifth Century

xxxi

PATIENCE HAGGARD

23. A Proposed Emendation of the Res Gestae

Divi Augusti (Paragraph 9, First Sentence)

E. ADELAIDE HAHN

26. Indic Speech and Religion in Western Asia.

EDGAR HOWARD STURTEVANT

27. The "ab urbe condita" Type of Expression

in Greek and in English

E. ADELAIDE HAHN

28. The Accusative and Ablative of Degree of

Difference

xxxiv

XXXV

xxxvi

BERNARD MELZAR ALLEN

29. The Nature of the Latin Passive in the Light

of Recent Discoveries

EDITH FRANCES CLAFLIN

30. The Riddle of Classical Prosody

HERBERT W. MAGOUN

xxxvi

xxxvii

31. The Vocatives in Livy

xxxviii

RALPH VAN DEMAN MAGOFFIN

32. Some Verse Effects in the Initial Position

CLYDE MURLEY

xxxviii

33. Subsequent Action expressed by the Aorist

Participle

xxxix

CALEB RICHMOND HARDING

34. The Origin and Solution of some of the

Difficult Roots in the English Language

JOHN C. PELLETT

I. Program of the Philological Association of the Pacific

Coast

II. Minutes

Bibliographical Record for the year 1926

Officers of the American Philological Association

Officers of the Philological Association of the

Pacific Coast

Members of the American Philological Association

Constitution

Committees and Business Matters

Publications of the Association

Index to Articles and Abstracts

Plates I-XLVI

xxxix

xl

xlii

xlv

lxix

lxx

lxxi

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CV

cvii

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