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translations in this volume are by the following hands:—

, by Mr. John Somers (Lord Somers, the statesman).

, by Thomas Blomer, D. D.

, by the same.

, by Mr. Joseph Arrowsmith, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

, by Thomas Creech, of Wadham College, Oxford.

, by Walter Charlton, M. D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

, by John Cooper, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

, by Sir John Litcott, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

, by Thomas Short, M. D.

, by Charles Whitaker, of the Inner Temple, Esquire.

The following are notes in addition to those in the text.

, page 1.—Plato records it in the First Alcibiades, p. 122.

Page 2.—Of all fair things the autumn is most fair is Lord Somers's verse, going a little beyond the oiiginal. It seems probable, however, that the critics, who reduced the original words to the form of an iambic line, put themselves to unnecessary trouble. Plutarch quotes it elsewhere as said viva voce by Euripides at a supper party, when he was laughed at for putting his arms round Agathon, a bearded man, and kissing him. See Matthiæ's Euripides (Fragm. Incert., 124). The passage from Aristophanes, just below, is from the Wasps, 44th and following verses.

Page 5.—Dropped like the craven cock his conquered wing is quoted again in the life of Pelopidas, but is otherwise unknown. The words in the Phædrus of Plato (p. 255), alluded to presently, are simply Anteros the image of love, and admit of more than one interpretation. Plutarch, however, seems to take them to mean the reciprocation and return of love. Rh