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xii other, the originals are, as it were, old friends appearing with new faces. For a fuller account of the numerous modern editions of separate plays reference may be usefully made to Professor Mayor's "Guide to the Choice of Classical Books," new edition (George Bell and Sons). Of the older editions of Euripides, Paley gives a brief account in his introduction to Vol. III, cited above, from which and from the article on Euripides in Dr. Smith's large Biographical Dictionary, I extract a short resumé:—

Of separate plays there have been almost countless editions; but here it must suffice to mention a few of the more famous editors e.g., Porson, Elmsley, Valckenaer, Monk, Pflugk, Hermann, etc., etc.

The only complete translation in English of any note, actually known to me, is an old one in verse by Michael