PREFACE

are I have received from Mrs. Adam.
H. T. Bell, S. G. Campbell. A. B. Cook, Kt. D. Hicks.
H. Καδης and A. J. B. Wace.

An account of the MS. tradition when the authors
concerned run into the sixties is a formidable affair,
and would be beyond the scope of this book. For
the most important. the scholar will find much of
what he requires in O. Hothmann’s Greechische Dialehte
and in the introduction to A. C. Pearson's Fragments
of sree The earlier history of the text has
been ably worked out by Wilamowitz in the works
mentioned in the Bibliography. But it should be
borne in mind that statements on the Acolic metres
and dialect published before 1914 may need modi-
fication. I cannot hope that the many references
in this book are quite exhaustive, modern, and
correct. But I have done my best to make them so,
A few not quite obvious errors, of which the worst
is Alevandrides tor Anaxandrides on pp, 100 and 101,
will be found corrected in the Indexes. In the
translation of Sappho /r. 55 the proverb should be
in square brackets. The omitted fragments of
merely palaeographical value will be found in the
Papyrus Collections—Onryrhynchus, Berliner K lassiker-
teate, Halle, Soceeta Ltaliana. It will perhaps be
useful to the reader to know that Volume Il. which
is already in the press, includes Stesichorus, Ibyeus,
Anacreon, and Simonides. and that Volume IIL.
which is in preparation, will include Corinna, bac ΠΣ =
lides, Timotheus, the Seolia, the Folk-Songs, the
Anacreontea, and the Adespota, with an account of
Greek Lyric Poetry.

J. M. Ε΄.
CAMBRIDGE,
December 22, 1921.
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