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We quote the clipping from the catalogue now pasted inside the front cover of the volume, correcting one typographical error and making no attempt to reproduce the variations of type found in the original. The description—similarly presented—appears also in N&Q, 4th. Ser., VII (1871), 117.

A Milton Handbook (1947), p. 387.

XVIII, 276-304, 565-66.

Harris Francis Fletcher, The Intellectual Development of John Milton, II (1961), 281, 284-86.

Fletcher, "Milton's Homer," JEGP, XXXVIII (1939), 229-32; Nathan Dane II, "Milton's Callimachus," MLN, LVI (1941), 278-79.

Fletcher, Intellectual Development, II, 281-84.

Cited Plates II-III and footnotes as Pin., Dan., Ara., Lyc., Eur., Dio., and Her. To save space in Plate III, we omit the abbreviation for page. Thus, for instance, "Dio. 177" indicates Dio Chrysostom, p. 177.

See Plate III, Dio. 177, Ara. 52, Eur. II, 658, 620.

See Plate II, Pin. pp. 18, 601, 83, 12, 23.

See Plate III, Eur. II, 710; Her. 93.

See Plate II, Pin, pp. 437, 8, 201, 202, 5571, 602.

XVIII, 279, 14. We reproduce the misread note in Plate II, Pin. p. 12.

Cf. Plate II, Pin. pp. 603, 11, 9 and Plate III, Ara. 51; Eur. II, 430; Her. 337.

Cf. Plate II, Pin. pp. 23, 41, 9 and Plate III, Lyc. 21, 174.

Cf. Plate II, Pin. pp. 22, 10 and Plate III, Lyc. 63; Eur. II, 625, 616.

Cf. Plate II, Pin. pp. 5572, 756 and Plate III, Eur. II, 771, 427, 464. Those wishing to pursue differences into the Latin may compare the Pindar annotator's and Milton's writing of the initial consonant cluster of "Tzetzes", which the Pindar scribe (Plate II, pp. 83, 9) spells "Tzet-" and Milton (Plate III, Lyc. 174, 40) "Tset-". Another peculiarity not found in Milton's notes but frequent in the Pindar annotations is the use of "u" instead of "v". Instances of this practice, but not illustrated in our plates, are "auarus" (p. 2), "uocat" (p. 3), "uellem" (p. 8), et passim.

For a detailed analysis of the marginalia in this volume, see "Milton's Annotations of Aratus," PMLA, LXX (1955), 1090-1106.

The references to Scaliger in this volume (pp. 156, 163) derive from Canter's commentary, which is included in Milton's edition. A detailed study of Milton's Lycophron marginalia has yet to be published.

For an identification of the some 146 non-Miltonic entries and a general discussion of Milton's notes in this work, see "Milton's Annotations of Euripides," JEGP, LX (1961), 680-687.

See, for instance, "Nem: Od: 7 Str: 2" (p. 9), "Pyth: Od: 2 Str: 2." (p. 18), and similar notes on pp. 20, 23, 27, 40, 44, et passim.

See, for instance, "pag: 354" (p. 3), "pag: 709" (p. 79), and similar notes on pp. 118, 131, 191, 227, 228, et passim.

See notes on pp. 5, 137, 185, 386.

See, for instance, "AEgina populosa" (p. 151), "Archilochi hymnus" (p. 162), "Adjectiva in tribus generibus suis adverbiascunt" (p. 163), and similar notes on pp. 164, 215, 251, 253 et passim.

The great amount of labor involved in perfecting the printed index may be suggested by pointing out that under the letter A alone, the Pindar annotator supplies over 140 omissions.

We reproduce the entry in Plate II.