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NOTE The Revisors have tried, while comparing the translation carefully with the original and correcting (in accordance with the expressed wish of the late Master of Balliol) the Essay on Inscriptions by the help of recent additions to our knowledge, to make no change or insertion of which they think he would have disapproved, and to retain the general character of the work. They desire to express their obligations, in the trans- lation, to Mr. E. C, Marchant's edition of Books II, VI, and VII, and the late Prof. H. C. Goodhart's edition of Book VIII, and, in the Essay on Inscriptions, to Meister- hans' Grafumatik der Attischen Inschriften, the Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, Suppl. iii., and Rohl's Inscrip- Hones Graecae Antiquissimae. The text followed is that of Bekker, the new Oxford text by Mr. H. Stuart Jones not being available until the translation was in type. It has been decided not to reprint the Notes, as a satisfactory revision of them would have greatly delayed the appearance of the present edition. It was, however, impossible to cancel the occasional references to the ' Notes ' at the foot of the pages of the translation. W. H. Forbes. Evelyn Abbott. October, 1899.