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243 XenophoYi's Greek History. 243 edition he prefixes to it the title of 'EWrjviKa : Eram da- turns (he says) una cum Thucydide ra re Aevocpcovro^ kol WXridwvo^ TejULLarou TrapaXeiTrofxeva : sed quia non haheham minimum tria exemplaria^ distulimus in aliud tempus. With regard to Xenophon, no grammarian who cites the Hellenics gives the name of Paralipomena either to the en- tire workj or to the first books; and the earliest of them, Athenaeus, quotes that which now passes for the first book of the Hellenics, as such. This, and what Diodorus, xiii. 42j says about Xenophon'^s history, makes it very improbable that Marcellinus, who is unquestionably a writer of a late date, should have been acquainted with a different name and division of that work; or that, when in his Life of Thucydides he stated Tct Se tcov oXXoop e^ ercov TrpdyjULara avaTrXfjpoL b Te QeoTrojuLTro^ Kal o 'B,€vo(pcoi/^ oh GwairTei tyiv ^ VXKrjviKYjv laTopiav, he meant anything more than that its contents, not its outward divisions, consisted of two parts. But although the external evidence which Niebuhr has ad- duced in support of his opinion, seems to me to have no weight, yet any person who considers the internal proofs as convincing, is still at liberty to hold that the Hellenics were written at different times, and even with different objects, since it has not been shewn that Xenophon himself pub- lished this work, which was not completed till a very late period of his life. III. On English Preterites and Genitives. In the first volume of this Museum, pp. 65^ — 666^ in the course of some remarks on the form of certain En- ghsh preterites and participles, it was shewn that the ancient and modern orthography had varied, and a return to the former mode of spelling was recommended. In confirmation of those remarks the following passages may likewise be noticed. Rask in his Anglo-Saxon Grammar, §. 205, speaking