base of each vase are sets of diagonal lines; ht. 2in. 20. Simpulum (shape 102 without foot), coarse red clay; ht. 4 in. A SERIES OF ANTIQUITIES FOUND TOGETHER IN A Cup on tall foot, plain (bucchero). Two bronze fibulae, part of a large armilla and of a bronze chain. (To be continued.) ANTIOCH.-In the Times of January 3 Mr. Greville Chester called attention to the destruction of ancient remains at Antioch. We have reason to believe that the worst injuries were inflicted in the time of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt; and that, partly in consequence of Mr. Chester's letter, the Turkish authorities will in future exercise a benevolent supervision in these matters.-[C. S.] EXCAVATIONS AT ASSARLIK.-I have received a very important series of notes from Mr. W. R. Paton of excavations and researches which he has been for some time carrying on in the neighbourhood of Myndus on the coast of Caria. These notes will shortly be published in full, together with the necessary illustrations, in the Hellenic Journal, but meanwhile I should like to take the earliest opportunity of indicating briefly the general scope of these discoveries, which throw a very important new light on the increasingly interesting question of the piaeHellenic races of Asia Minor. Mr. Newton (Hist. Disc. pp. 580 sq.) mentions a series of tombs close by the Akropolis of Assarlik, which he identified with the ancient Souagela; Mr. Paton, however, adduces reasons to show that Assarlik is probably a minor site in the district of Termera (Chifoot Kale), rather than that of Souagela, the importance of which we know from the Athenian tribute lists.1 Near this site Mr. Paton opened a quantity of tombs, upon a ridge facing the Akropolis to the south-east, the contents of some of which are now in the British Museum. These tombs were of two kinds, viz. : (i.) A circular wall of polygonal masonry, about thirty feet in diameter, on which are piled loose stones forming the tumulus: in the centre a sepulchral chamber closed at top by two large stones, and entered by dromos to north-west, roofed with large rectangular stones and with walls of polygonal masonry the door is formed of a rectangular block as lintel resting on two others as sideposts. (ii.) A rectangular enclosure formed by a single course of polygonal masoury, with no trace of a tomb, but occasionally enclosing a small superficial cavity lined with four slabs of terra-co: ta, and covered with a large circular stone; containing only ashes. Lower down the hill these characteristics interchange; some rectangles having large sepulchres which have contained a sarcophagus or a pithos, the few circles containing only small ostothekai. Mr. Paton thinks these tombs on or near high summits are those which Strabo says were pointed out in Caria as the work of the Le'eges (see Newton, loc. cit.). The same mode of burial in combination with geometric designs is found in Italian tombs of 1 Mr. Newton, who has read Mr. Paton's arguments, points oat, per contra, the striking importance of the position of Assarlik from a strategical point of view. NOS. II. & III, VOL, II. the early iron age (Bullet. ser. Romana, i. p. 158) and possibly elsewhere. I should think that the Leleges were primitive inhabitants both in Greece and Asia Minor, and that they did not emigrate from the latter through the islands. There is no evidence that they were a seafaring people like the Carians. The two undoubtedly Lelegian towns of Pedasus are both inland, and if we can dismiss the Cretan account given by Herodotus, there is no trace of them in the islands except Chios and Samos. The island tombs seem to belong to quite a different people. The tumuli at old Smyrna, which I have not yet visited, seem to resemble in construction those of Assarlik. Perhaps they are tombs of the same people, as Strabo mentions Leleges in the neighbourhood of Smyrna.' It seems probable that the Assarlik system of sepulchral architecture survived long among these people, for on a ridge near the village of Gheresi Mr. Paton saw two tombs of this style, of which the entrances lead out of a semicircular wall built into the face of the hill looking west: here he found many fragments of black and red glazed pottery. On the adjoining summit is a very remarkable tomb, surrounded at a distance of about eight metres by a wall, and roofed by five enormous stones. The whole is encircled by a second wall, distant twenty-four metres down hill; and opposite the entrance of the tomb is a gate. In it were some fragments of marble which had possibly formed part of a door or of a sarcophagus, and a small fragment of an Attic vase of the fifth century. 'I should be inclined to think from its magnificence and conspicuous position it was a tomb of one of those Karian princes mentioned in the Athenian tribute lists. At any rate it is much later than the tumuli of Assarlik.' Mr. Paton deduces the following results from the objects which he has found, and which are now in the British Museum : I. No trace of any but geometric design. (i.) All vases which have painted decorations have horizontal bands alone or in combination with large concentric circles or segments of circles (except one with zigzag pattern). (ii.) Impressed patterns on larger vessels zigzag or wavy. (iii.) Same system on gold. II. Forms of vases have little in common with Mycenaean, and have not the variety of that class. III. The fibulae are all of one pattern. IV. Weapons all iron. V. Bodies in all cases burnt. Of the class of objects which Mr. Paton found, a sufficient idea will be given by quoting here the contents of two tombs. In the first were:A. (i.) A large amphora, nearly circular, with nearly vertical handles, filled with bones and ashes. (ii.) A bowl with two handles, plain drab. (iv.) An amphora with patterns of concentric (v.) Fragments of iron weapons, including a lance head and a curved knife. In the second were: B. (i.) A cinerary vase as in A. (ii.) Fragments of a thiu curved plate of bronze, (iii.) Two gold spirals (for the hair?). Among the other objects from these tombs may specially be noted :-(i.) An elektron circular bulla (2 in. diam.), the upper part curled over for attachiment, and with holes for attachment all round the G edge, which is recurved; with a circular boss repoussé in the centre, and patterns of triangles filled with stippled dots. (ii.) A bandeau of gold plate, 3 in. by 1 in., with double row of zigzags; cf. Arch. Zeit. 1884, Taf. 9, 4. (iii.) Several bronze fibulae of form similar to ibid. Taf. 9, 3, without the side plate. (iv.) A series of fragments of terra-cotta sarcophagi with incised and stamped designs. The importance of these discoveries cannot be overestimated in their bearing on the early history of the 'Geometric' races; everything goes to prove that the products of the Assarlik graves are exclusively local ; clay, bronze (or copper), iron, and gold, that is all, and the only decoration, as Mr. Paton remarks, is geometric; while the vases are all wheel-made, they are as a rule coarse in texture, and of the simplest forms,' and being insufficiently baked have unfortunately lost much of the surface. No idols, nor any traces of representation of human or even of animal figures, if we except the askos. Nothing which can be considered as imported; the whole series, in fact, seems to speak of an inland folk of a very archaic period, subject to little outside influence, but with a fairly advanced culture, if we may judge from the beautifully-worked fibulae. They add one more link to the connexion between the early Italian sites and the inland sites of Lydia and Caria. The rich series of patterns on the fragments of Mr. Paton's sarcophagi compare with nothing so well as the archaic Corneto find in Mon. Ined. X. x.2; and Furtwaengler has pointed out, loc. cit. p. 99, that the geometric gold bandeaux show a strong similarity with the impressed reliefs on Rhodian pithi, and so with the impressed reliefs on the Bucchero vases of Italy. There is yet one more point of connexion. The only pottery which I know of as resembling the Assarlik vases is a series of fragments in the British Museum from Sardes. In 1869 Mr. Dennis made a tentative excavation at Bintepe (thousand hills'): he succeeded in finding one of these tumuli in an apparently intact state, but before he could succeed in penetrating through the solid core of masonry in the interior of the tumulus he was compelled for want of funds to bring his operations to a close the fragments of vases which we now possess were the only fruits of his expedition. In the Berlin Abhandl. for 1858, p. 539, v. Olfers describes a thorough exploration of one of these Grabhügel by Herr Spiegelthal. The tomb he found is certainly of later date than those of Assarlik, but a distinct development of the same system. The one Dennis attacked was apparently an earlier one of the same series, and the fragments from it bear a marked similarity to the Assarlik series. If the early sites of Lydia and Caria could be more fully explored, we should probably be in a better position to judge of the early history of the Italian races. CECIL SMITH. DELPHI.- Ever since 1862, when Foucart and Wescher continued on a larger scale the excavations begun at Delphi by C. O. Müller, it has been understood that the complete excavation of the site would some day be undertaken by France. In 1880 M. Haussoullier continued the work, and found, besides hundreds of inscriptions belonging to the inscribed wall of the peribolos, the now celebrated portico of the fifth century (de quo vide Bull. Corr. Hellén.) The difficulties which stood in the way of more systematic 1 With two exceptions, viz. (i.) A bügelkänne, decorated with segments of concentric circles; the spout is joined at the top to the handle, and at the insertion of th outer part of the handle a hole is pierced. (ii) A bird-shaped askos, very similar to the horse-shaped one in Mon. Ined. X. x., with decorations of spirals. 2 Cf. also the description of the Vetulonia "tomb of the warrior" quoted in the American Journal, 1886, p. 492. excavations were: 1. the necessity of expropriating the modern village of Castri, which is built on the ruins of the Delphian temple; 2. a certain reluctance of the Greeks, which already expressed itself in 1875, when the Germans asked their permission for digging at Olympia. An Now, the chief obstacles have been removed. agreement between prime minister Tricoupis and the French minister Count Montholon, has been established on the terms of the permission granted to the Germans in 1875, viz. that all the discoveries are to remain in Grecce, and the French school at Athens, entrusted with the diggings, is to possess during five years the exclusive right of publishing, taking casts, A law will be presented by M. Tricoupis to the Greek parliament in order to insure the removal of the small houses which compose the village of Castri. The excavations will begin as soon as possible. It is understood that they will be conducted by M. Foucart, director of the school, with M. Haussoullier as chief assistant, and the other members of the school as overseers.-SALOMON REINACH. &c. NISYROS,In the 'Apaλ@ela (Smyrna) of January 21, and also in the 'Ephuepis (Athens) of January 20, is published a marble inscription recently found in this island. It is an honorary decree, of which seventeen lines are preserved, recording the name of a certain Gnomagoras, son of Dorotheos a Nisyrian, the various services he had rendered to the island, and the honours which had been conferred on him by the βουλή and the various κοινεία. It is specially mentioned that he had seen service in a light cruiser named ‘Εὐανδρία Σεβαστά, and that in his capacity of gymnasiarch he had furnished oil at his own cost to all those who took part in the games.―[C. S.] PATMOS.-In Blackwood, March 1887, Mr. J. T. Bent describes a visit to this island. He gives an interesting account of some of the more noteworthy books in the monastery, and of some curious customs which still survive among the Patmiotes, especially noticing the veneration with which the cave of St. John is still regarded,-[C. S.] FURNI. In Longman's Magazine, March 1887, Mr. J. T. Bent describes four islets near Samos, named as he thinks after certain rock-cut tombs. Unfortunately his archaeological researches here last year were cut short by the arrival of a pirate caïque, whose evil intentions were with difficulty frustrated. -[C. S.] SMYRNA. I recently visited the Necropolis of Old Smyrna, and noticed that all the tombs on the lower slopes of the hill had been in recent years opened by treasure-grubbers. These tombs are sunk perpendicularly in the ground, and are without entrances, but so far imitate the more ancient tumuli higher up in the neighbourhood of the so-called tomb of Tantalus that they are surrounded by stone circles. Numerous fragments of pithoi and terra-cotta sarcophagi were lying about. I picked. up one small portion of the rim of a sarcophagus, which is ornamented in the same way as those from Clazomenae. It has a guilloche pattern with a double fringe of palmettes. Where the guilloche terminates is a double row of squares, running across the rim. There is a precisely similar fragment from Clazomenae in the museum at Smyrna, which shows that this chequer pattern, like the maeander on another sarcophagus (Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1883, p. 10) separates the figure paintings from the remaining portion of the rim. The traces of colour are bright red and white, the red being laid on the top of the white. To the EDITOR of the CLASSICAL REVIEW. SIR, I cannot expect that you will allow me space to examine in detail Mr. Sidgwick's extraordinary travesty of the Quarterly scheme for a School of English Literature which appeared in your last number, but I trust you will permit me to correct two or three of his most glaring mis-statements, and to repudiate the nonsense which he has so unfairly attributed to me. 1. He ridicules my excluding from the curriculum of literary study all Cicero's treatises, all the Platonic Dialogues and the Republic, while including such trash as the Hymnus Jejunan'ium of Prudentius. A reference to the Quarterly (p. 261) will show that the De Oratore and the Brutus are among the books expressly prescribed as text-books; that so far from the Republic being excluded it is expressly stated that no student should be admitted to an honour degree in arts who had not an adequate acquaintance with it (Quarterly, p. 259), and that so far from all the Platonic Dialogues being excluded, the Phaedrus and the Phaedo, described as works absolutely indispensable to the student of poetry, have a foremost place in the proposed curriculum. As for the introduction of the Hymnus Jejunantium it is a pure fiction of Mr. Sidgwick's imagination. Mr. Sidgwick is much too well-read a scholar not to know that when Prudentius is alluded to, he is alluded to not as the author of the Hymnus Jejunantium, but as the author of the Psychomachia, of the historical interest of which as a link between classical and modern literature Mr. Sidgwick must be perfectly aware. 2. Mr. Sidgwick twice ridicules my including Silius Italicus among the books proposed for the curriculum of study. I never even alluded to Silius Italicus. Nor is there anything in my article which could by any possibility be twisted into an allusion to him. The assertion is a pure invention of Mr. Sidgwick's. 3. I am accused of the absurdity of including in the proposed curriculum "the 1,400 pages of the Corpus Poctarum," and some at least of the Alexandrine didactics." This also is pure fiction. Of the poets comprised in the Corpus Poetarum I never suggested that any but the leading and master classics should be read except in extracts, and these extracts taken in their entirety, amounted only to a few hundred lines. To the "Alexandrine didactics" I made no reference at all. 4. Mr. Sidgwick asserts that the scheme which he criticises would exclude from a school of Bellcs Lettres the writings of Wycliffe, Malory, More, Ascham, Sidney, Hooker, Bacon, Burton, Milton's prose works, Hobbes, Locke, much of Taylor, Barrow, South, Bunyan, Addison, Swift, &c. &c. He might have observed with equal reason that as the letters of the alphabet were not specified in the scheme they also would be excluded. If Mr. Sidgwick will turn again to the Quarterly article he will see that the history of English Literature forms as important a part of the proposed course as the critical s.udy of prescribed works. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, J. C. COLLINS. SUMMARIES OF PERIODICALS. Athenacum: 29 Jan.: Rev. J. Welldon's Rhetoric of Aristotle. 12 Feb. Jebb's Homer. 26 Feb.: excellent review (continued in next number) of the English translation of Mommsen's Roman History, vol. v., and review of S. S. Laurie's Lectures on the Rise and Early Constitution of Universities. 12 Mar: review of B. V. Head's Historia Nummorum. 19 Mar. Paley's Gospel of St. John; a Verbatim Translation of the Vatican MS. Academy: 22 Jan: Notices. Glazebrook's Medea; Sidgwick's Greek Prosc Composition; and other schoolbooks; two books on Modern Latin Verse, (R. Ellis); Schrader's Linguistischhistorische Forschungen zur Handelsgeschichte und Warenkunde Pt. 1; A. F. Pott's Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, and Karl Abel's Aegyptische Sprachstudien. 29 Jan.: Beloch's Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt, (F. T. Richards); Leaf's Iliad, 1-12, (F. Haverfield). 5 Feb.: G. T. Stokes' Ireland and the Celtic Church to the English Conquest in 1172, (R. Dunlop); W. Cunningham's St. Austin; V. H. Stanton's Jewish and Christian Messiah; two editions of Juvenal (A. S. Wilkins). Feb. 12 E. Vischer's Offenbarung Johannis, (R. B. Drummond); Mommsen's History of Rome. The Provinces, trans. by W. P. Dickson; Arnold's Second Punic War, edited by W. T. Arnold; BouchéLeclercq's Manuel des Institutions Romaines; E. Morlot's Précis des Institutions politiques de Rome; P. Willems' Les Elections Municipales à Pompéi; W. Soltau's Prolegomena zu einer hömischen Chronologic; Duruy's History of Rome; Correspondence on the Date and History of the Latin Bible of Monte Amiata, by the Bishop of Salisbury; (19 Feb.) W. Sanday, Martin Rule; (26 Feb.) F. J. A. Hort, Bishop of Salisbury, H. J. White, Martin Rule. Feb. 19 Brugmann's Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen, by A. H. Sayce. Feb. 26: Duncker's History of Greece, vol. ii. (F. T. Richards); Quicherat's Mélanges d'Archéo logie et d'Histoire, (J. H. Middleton). [Codex Amiatinus: The main points in this interesting corre spondence are as follows: The generally-received account of the Codex Amiatinus at Florence, one of the chief authorities for the text of Jerome's Vulgate, was that it was written by a certain Servandus, whose name appears at the beginning of Leviticus, and who was identified with a deacon of that name who visited Benedict at Monte Casino in 541. On the back of fol. 1 is an inscription in Latin verse recording the gift of the Codex to the convent of Monte Amiata by Peter, abbot of a Lombard monastery. Some words in this inscription had been erased and altered. Last year De Rossi suggested that the Codex was that which Bede tells us Crolfrid took with him from England as an offering to the Church of Rome in the year 716, and conjectured that one of the altered lines, now beginning Langobardorum, had originally begun Ceolfridus Britonum. Accordingly he made the age of the Cod x 150 years later than had been supposed. The Bishop of Salisbury, to whom we are indebted for this information, also mentions that Dr. Peter Corssen had pointed out certain resemblances between the Cod. Am. and the Bible given by Cassiodorius to the monastery of Vivarium which was written about 541. Dr. Hort discovers, in an anonymous life of Ceolfrid from which Bede took his account, a description of the Bible taken to Rome in 716, giving the Latin inscription in its original form. The true reading of the line emended by De Rossi turns out to be Coolfridus Anglorum. It further states that Ceolfrid had brought from Rome in an earlier visit a Latin Bible of the prae-hieronymian translation, and that he had three copies made in England of the new translation, one of which he took back as an offering to the Church of Rome. Dr. Hort further proves by quotations from some of Bede's smaller works that the old Bible brought from Rome was a copy of that of Cassiodorius, and thinks that the Servandus mentioned may have been the writer of the original from which the Cod. Am. was copied. Canon Raine suggests that Bede himself may have been the copyist, as there is a MS. of Cassiodorius super Psalterium in the Durham Library, which is said to be de manu Bedae.] Expositor, March, 1887. Prof. A. B. Davidson has an interesting paper on the stand-point of the prophet Amos. Prof. Strack writing on Bible Revision in Germany mentions the strong feeling against any but the mildest revision of Luther's Bible, and gives a list of the chief critiques of the Probebibel up to the present time. The revision of the Old Testament seems to have been much bolder than that of the New Testament, the number of 'real alterations' being eighty for the latter and 3,000 for the former, besides 1,000 for the Apocrypha. The great fault of the revision is that the text used for the New Testament is the Erasmian of 1519; but con plaint is also made of the style of the translation on the ground of inelegance and unintelligibility. The reviewer, however, commends the work on the whole, and hopes that the revisers will not be deterred from making further improvements by the outcry which has been raised against them. There are also papers by Sir J. W. Dawson on the Rivers of Eden, and by Prof. Rendel Harris on Dr. Sanday's view of the origin of the Christian Ministry. The Empress Theodora, by C. E. Mallet, pp. 1-20; Nau An Mr. The Church Quarterly Review, Jan. 1887. article on Egyptian Christianity' shows from Mr. Le Page Renouf's Hibbert Lecture that the Egyptian religion known to Greek and Latin writers was a late and corrupt stage of a much higher form which was monotheistic, and that the language expressive of this carly belief survived side by side with the practice of polytheism. 'The early History of Oxford' gives some insight into the intellectual condition of that university in distant times. Fletcher's Collectanea,' among other documents, contains the 'Day-Book of John Dorne, Bookseller in 1520, by which we learn that very few books were required for the schools; the new Latin translation of Aristotle was supplanting the old thirteenth century versions, and the school grammars of Erasmus, Stanbridge, and Whitington, had eclipsed Priscian and Alexander de Villa Dei. The development of the university itself and its intellectual progress can now be followed pretty accurately by a study of the Register, edited by Mr. Boase, and the Historics of Mr. Parker, Mr. Maxwell Lyte, and Dr. Brodrick, the Warden of Merton College.-Among the shorter notices is one calling attention to the issue of the final volume of the English translation of Ewald's great work, The History of Israel, which is of great value as containing a copious index to the whole series. The translation is by Mr. J. F. Smith. Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft, herausg. von IWAN MÜLLER. 14th series. 1886. no. 1-3. Vol. xlvi. pp. 1-80. 1. On the literature of the Attic orators during the years 1882-1885, by G. Hüttner. The reviewer notices 77 books, pamphlets or articles; 13 of a general nature, 12 on Antiphon, 14 on Lysias, 21 on Isocrates, 13 on Isaeus; specially commending Br. Keil's Analecta Isocratea and some grammatical pamphlets, C. Bohlmann and E. R. Schulze on attraction; S. Keck on the dual in the orators with reference to the Attic inscriptions; H. Gölkel on the syntax of the verb and construction of sentences in Antiphon. He is inclined, with Grosse, to suspect the Trapeziti us attributed to Isocrates. Amongst the editions reviewed are Hickie's Andocides De Mysteriis, Shuckburgh's Lysias, Herwerden's Antiphon, Kocks' Selections from Lysias (5 speeches) in the Bibliotheca Gothana; also a second edition of Frohberger's Selections from Lysias by Gebauer, and the fifth edition of Isocrates' Panegyricus and Areopagiticus re-edited by Reinhardt. 2. On the Greek lyric and bucolic poets, excluding Pindar, by E. Hiller. A careful record of the emendations and suggestions proposed in pamphlets or articles of the years 1884 and 1885. Of the few dissertations not dealing directly with the text R. Holsten De Stesichori et Ibuci dialecto et copia verborum receives a long notice. Vol. xlvii. pp. 1-48. Plautus from 1882-3 to 1885 by O. Seyffert. Under (1) a historical section, nineteen books or articles are noticed, many of great : value as O. Ribbeck Kolax, A. Spengel on the headings and divisions of scenes in Latin comedy, E. Leidolph De Festi et Pauli locis Plautinis, E. Ä. Sonnenschein Bentley's Plautine Emendations, C. R. Opitz on Latin acrostics. (2) Prosody and metre is the subject of the next section, which deals with important papers by W. Meyer, Bücheler, and Leo; also with dissertations and articles of A. Luchs, P. Schrader, J. H. Onions, and E. Below. (3) Under the next, or grammatical and linguistic section, Abraham's Studia Plautina and L. Buchhold De paromoeoseos (alliterationis) usu are the most important works treated: but the review will be continued in the next number. Vol. xlviii. pp. 1-160. 1. Latin Lexicography from July 1, 1884 to June 30, 1886 by K. E. Georges. The reviewer notices the new Archiv für Lexicographie, a publication started by the Bavarian Academy in preparation for a future Thesaurus Latinae linguae'; Heerdegen, Stolz, and Schmalz in Iwan Müller's Handbuch, vol. ii.; and lexicons to Caesar by Merguet, MengePreuss and Meusel, all in course of publication, of which the last is by far the best. He denounces G. A. Saalfeld's Tensaurus Italo-Graecus as plagiarised from the reviewer's own Latin dictionary, filling five pages with borrowed Latin words which Saalfeld ought to have included, if he had devoted independent study to his task. The review is wonderfully thorough and minute; in all 45 publications are noticed, and in many of them the reviewer corrects misprints and wrong references. 2. Works dealing with Greek and Roman metre of the years 1883-1885 are reviewed at length by R. Klotz. In all 139 publications are classed under eight heads the history of metrical theory (including Westphal's Rhythmik and translation of Aristoxenus), metre and prosody in general, the Greek epos, Greek lyric poetry, the Greek drama, the Saturnian verse, the Roman drama, and Roman lyric and epic poetry. Besides the comprehensive works of Gleditsch, L. Müller, Zambaldi, most attention is bestowed on W. Meyer's paper on the history of the hexameter, Tichelmann De versibus Ionicis a minore, M. Schmidt on the structure of Pindar's strophes, a number of papers by F. Hanssen (on the avoidance of the accent in the last syllable of a pentameter, &c.), N. Wecklein on the technique and delivery of the Aeschylean choral odes, the reviewer's own Studia Aeschylea, Gitlbauer's Philologische Streifzüge, H. Zielinski on the metrical arrangement of the parts in old Attic comedy, a series of papers on the Saturnian verse from Ŏ. Keller down to L. Müller Der saturnische Vers und seine Denkmäler, E. Trampe on the metre of Lucan, F. O. Stange on that of Martianus Capella. The papers of W. Meyer, Leo, Bücheler noticed by the reviewer of Plautus in vol. xlvii. are exhaustively analysed here, and a note at the end reviews an article by Blass and a book by Wilamowitz on Isyllus of Epidaurus, the author of five poems inscribed in the temple of Asclepius, which were discovered and published by Kabbadias in 1885. One of these poems is a paean in ionic metre, and the discovery naturally leads to renewed investigations as to the versus ionici found in the lyric poets and the Attic drama. Zeitschrift f. österr. Gymnasien xxxviii (1887) Heft 1. Wien, Gerold. Kritisch-exegetischer Beitrag zu Porcius Licinius und Quintus Catulus. Von F. Maixner.-Ein Trojanerlied aus dem Mittelalter. Von J. Huemer in Wien.-Reviews: 1. Die homerischen Hymnen. Hrsg u. erl. von Dr A. Gemoll. 8vo. Leipzig, Teubner, 1886, pp. xiv 378. 6 M. 80 Pf. Rev. by E. Abel. Abel, himself the editor of the Homeric hymns, epigrams and Batrachomyomachia in Schenkl's bibliotheca, points out many inaccuracies in the critical and exegetical notes, but ends with the testimony that Gemoll's commentary, eine sehr anerkennenswerte, durchaus selbständige Leistung ist, welche berufen ist, dem Studium der homerischen Hymnen neuen, kräftigen Impuls zu verleihen.' 2. Herodotos. von Dr J. Sitzler. vii Buch. 1 Abth. Text pp. vi 82. 2 Abth. Commentar. 8vo. Gotha, Perthes. 1885. 2 M. Rev. by J. Golling. Belongs to the Bibliotheca Gothana :' better suited to schools than the commentaries of Stein and Abicht.-3. M. Tulli Ciceronis Cato maior. Laelius. Scholarum in usum edidit Th. Schiche. Pragae, Tempsky. 1884. Rev. by A. Kornitzer. The author, known by his 'Jahresberichte' on Cicero's philosophical works (in the Ztschr. f. d. Gw.), founds his text mainly on that of C. F. W. Müller, but exercises everywhere an independent judgement.-4. Three reviews by A. Zingerle. A. Prolegomena in T. Livii librum xxxiii. Scr. Andr. Frige!l. pp. 72. Gotha, Perthes. 1885. The author has published prolegomena and epilegomena to other books of Livy. They contain statements, brought up to date, respecting the readings of MSS. and editions, with independent comments and emendations. B. Titi Livi ab urbe condita liber IV. Für den Schulgebrauch erklärt von Franz Luterbacher. pp. 116. Leipzig, Teubner. 1886. Valuable both for text and commentary. C. M. Valerii Martialis epigrammaton libri. Recognovit Walth. Gilbert. pp. xxxiii; 408. Lipsiae in acdibus Teubneri. 1886. On spect. 15 8 Zingerle had made the correction praemia cum laudum ferret, adhuc poterat, before he knew that Ellis had published the same conjecture in 1885. Martial has praemia ferre, e.g. 1 25 6. 31 3. vI 58 10. With iii 63 6 Zingerle compares Tibull. 1 7 38 movit et ad certos nescia membra modos. 5. Priscillian. Ein neu aufgefundener Schriftsteller des 4 Jahrhunderts. Vortrag von Dr Georg Schepss. 26 pp. Würzburg. 1886. Rev. by J. Huemer. The author, beheaded as a heretic in 385, will now be known to us by eleven treatises, more or less complete, which fill 145 leaves of a MS. assigned by the best judges to the 5th or 6th cent. The biblical citations are prehieronymian and correspond closely to those in Aug. spec. Schepss has undertaken to edit the book for the Vienna library of Latin fathers. The divinity of the heretics, Leusibora, named by Jerome, has been discovered by Schepss in Job 38 39 θηρεύσεις δὲ λέουσι βοράν, turned into tu capies Leosiboram . . Under Miscellen J. M. Stowasser commends (1) Platon's Protagoras, v. Dr. J. Deuschle. 4 Aufl. bearb. v. Dr. Ch. W. J. Cron. pp. 140. Leipzig, Teubner, 1884; (2) Taciti Germania, Erl. v. Dr. H. Schweizer-Sidler. 4 Aufl. pp. xvi 95. Halle, Waisenhaus. 1884. (3) Platon's ausgewählte Dialoge. Erkl. v. C. Schmelzer. Berlin, Weidmann. 1883-4, vol vi pp. 111. (Meno, Euthyphro); vii pts. 1 and 2 pp. 203, 260 (republic). Hermes, vol. xxii. part 1, contains: 1. Die Obeliskeninschrift von Philae, by U. Wilcken, in which Letronne's explanation (Récu. des Inseri. Gr. and Lat. de l'Égypte, i. p. 333, &c.) is corrected through the light afforded by the cursive Greek papyri. The answer to the priests' petition (A) is shown to be written by the king, not by his ἐπιστολογράφος, whose position therefore as a responsible minister is not proved, and Wilcken's conjecture that the priests of Isis were also priests of the Ptolemies here, as at Alexandria, Ptolemais and Thebes, is confirmed by the hieroglyphics on the obelisk. Der Capitolinische Juppitertempel und der Italische Fuss, by O. Richter; already discussed in vol. xviii. 2. |