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 <V2 Journal of Philology. in this country. In this present article I have mustered my forces. In future articles I hope to bring them into action with the view of deciding one of the most perplexing questions in the history of ancient art ; the practice of polychromy in the archi- tecture and sculpture of Greece. These pages will probably fall into the hands of men, from whom it must ever be my pride to learn. I only hope that any errors they may detect, they will not be slow to denounce. Thus shall Truth prevail, and Know- ledge grow. C. Knight Watson. VIII. On some passages in Lucretius. In the first number of this Journal p. 36 I illustrated Lucre- tius' use of the word ceiher by a similar use of alOrjp in a verse of Empedocles. I should have also quoted another passage which Lucretius has more directly imitated. It is thus given in Aristotle de gen. et corr. p. 333 b 1 Bekk. m>pl yap ava ('Epn(8oK?)s) rh irvp' " avei 8e x6wv pip aforepov yepos (one MS. dcpas) aWtpa 6' aWyp." In fact Empedocles employs the word very much in the same way as Lucretius. He often uses it poetically instead of dtjp, although he distinguishes between them, when it is necessary for his purpose, as in v. 184 Karsten raid tc icai tt6ptos noXvKvpcav 178' vypos drjp, Tirdp )$' aldrjp (r^iyyatp ir(p kvkKop dirapra. The last verse is imitated by Lucretius v, 469, 470. I have however a more serious retractation to make. I dont know by what oversight I proposed in p. 41 of the above paper to read in iv, 1130 ac clilamydem, as I was well aware of the limita- tion of the use of ac; I still believe however that Lucretius wrote Interdum in pallam aut chlamydem se Ciaque vertunt. In consequence of his frequent reiterations of the same thoughts and expressions Lucretius can generally be best illus-