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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt:...partially borrowed from Juba supra, p. 287); Book viii, on the Athenian tribunals and officers of State, founded partly on Aristotle's Constitution of Athens'" and Book ix ( 51 f), on coins. His primary authorities are the lexicons of Didymus, Tryphon and Pamphilus; in Book 11 he partly relies on a medical writer named Rufus; and, from Book ix onwards (as he himself tells us), he has made use of the Onomasticon of Gorgias the younger. His biographer, Philostratus, informs us that, while in matters of criticism he was fairly competent, his declamations were marked by more spirit than skill"; and, as already observed (p. 308), the scholiast on the Lexiphanes and Khetorum Praeceptor of Lucian informs us that both of those works, with their ridicule of those who affected an ultra-Attic phraseology, were intended as a satire on Pollux. But, on the whole, there seems to be good reason for agreeing with 1 Cp. Dziatzko in Pauly-Wissowa, s.v.'kmniava.' a 6 iitTh Tovtov ni/ios (Bekker's Anted. 269). Cp. Cobet, Dc auctoritatc et usu Grammaticorum vcterum (1853); Blass in I. Muller's Handbuch, iB 4, p. 1552.--On Harpocration, cp. Christ, 572s; Croiset, v 646 f. s ed. Dindorf (1824); Bekker (1846); Bethe (1900-). Cp. Christ, 573s; Croiset, v 645 f. 4 Rohde, De Pollucis in apparatu scaenico enarrando fontibus (1870). 5 See Introduction p. xxv, and Testimonia, in present writer's ed. 8 Vit. Soph, ii n, To fi&v KpniKi. hardt Ijctkczto Kt. XVIII. POLLUX. HEPHAESTION. 321 Hemsterhuis1, the editor of both, that Pollux is not attacked by Lucian, though Lucian, who is himself an Atticist, remorselessly attacks the affected Atticism of his day. In this age the leading authority on metre was Hephaestion of Alexandria, probably...