that is most reprehensible from a prosaic point of view. But this Brief Mention has grown to unreasonable dimensions and I cannot undertake to follow M. DEMOULIN through the rest of the history of the tradition nor outline the biography of Epimenides which forms the second part. The main thesis that the author desires to uphold is the historical existence of Epimenides, the purifier of Athens from the Kylonian pollution, about whose figure have gathered the floating legends due in large measure to the inventions of Orphic and Pythagorean authors. In Vol. X 470-480 of the Journal I gave a pretty full summary of CONSTANTIN RITTER'S Untersuchungen über Plato, the most elaborate study since Campbell's on Plato's language as a criterion of chronology. The contributions of Dittenberger, Frederking, Schanz and Gomperz have also been noticed in the Journal from time to time-cf. III 376, VI 387, VIII 506, IX 378,—and one of my former students, Dr. G. B. HUSSEY, published in X 437-444 a special treatise on the use of certain verbs of saying in Plato. But since that time the Journal has taken little notice of this line of research. Perhaps the discovery of some sad mistakes in RITTER'S statements may have disheartened me (XI 389). Perhaps I grew a little weary of the abuse of statistics in other directions (XIII 123). Perhaps the new work did not seem to be especially important. True, the appearance in 1897 of LUTOSLAWSKI'S big book, Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic, challenged my attention, heralded as it had been by sundry articles of the same author, but it did not reach me in time for effective use in the work of my Plato year and now Lutoslawski is an old story. The caveats that have been entered against the stylometric method are not without weight and have been fairly stated in GOMPERZ'S Griechische Denker (II 233). Time is not the only element in the shifting use and my own studies elsewhere have only confirmed me in the belief that the department is often more potent than the period. A later work may have been designedly composed in the tone of an earlier dialogue; a habit may be taken up and after a while dropped. There is the retour de jeunesse so characteristic of genius; there is the inevitable question of revision, the inevitable question of Plato's combings and curlings and plaitings. But the subject has its fascination for all that and I have not been able to shut my eyes to G. JANELL'S Quaestiones Platonicae in the twenty-sixth Supplementband of the Neue Jahrbücher. I pass over the first part which gives the unavoidable review of the work that has been done down to Lutoslawski, who, by the way, has not found universal acceptance even among those who work in stylometry. 'Lutoslawski's angewandte rechnerische Methode,' says von Arnim ‘ist ein Irrweg.' Still JANELL believes in spite of Zeller, (A. J. P. X 471) that there are peculiarities that may help us to decide the order of the dialogues, and chief of these is the hiatus which he attacks in minute detail and the examination of which constitutes the second and principal part of the paper. The subject of hiatus in Plato had been touched on by Blass before (A. B. II' 458) but Janell undertakes to go to the bottom of this xaopodía business and proceeds statistically. The Didot page is taken as the standard, in conformity with Lutoslawski's example, and the resulting tables bristle with decimals. I can only give samples of the results. The higher averages are found in The late date of Politicus, Sophista, Critias and Timaeus is an article of faith with many Platonists; and whatever part the redoubtable Philippos of Opus may have played, the position of the Laws is not an open question. The Parmenides exhibit will not satisfy everybody; but one is inclined to respect the hiatus test; for the treatment of the hiatus gives us the registry of a fashionable fad and the disappearance of it ranks with the disappearance of the κρωβύλος and the ενερσις χρυσῶν τεττίγων at Athens. The third chapter deals with kabáñeр and σπeр to which Dittenberger called attention long ago (A. J. P. III 376). κаðáпeр belongs to the sphere of legal language (cf. Ar. Av. 1041), and the large use of it in the Laws might be ascribed to that. But here also the avoidance of hiatus is the potent influence. What is sauce for oneр ought to be sauce for rрón and it might be worth while to examine how far Plato's later usage was influenced by Isokrates in this regard also, (A. J. P. XV 521) Unfortunately there are no statistics at hand for Plato. But it is clear that in the period prior to the line drawn above Plato is indifferent to the hiatus produced by τρόπῳ. So we find Meno, 73 C; τῷ αὐτῷ τρόπῳ ἀγαθοί εἰσιν and τῷ αὐτῷ ἂν τρόπῳ ἀγαθοὶ ἦσαν and Conv. 176 Α: τίνα τρόπον ὡς ῥᾷστα πιόμεθα; is followed by B: τίνι τρόπῳ ἂν ὡς ῥᾷστα πίνοιμεν; a curious specimen of Plato's ποικιλία. In the fourth chapter after a discussion of the question as to the genuineness of the Ion, JANELL sides with Eduard Meyer, who says 'Ich muss bekennen dass ich nicht verstehe wie man es über sich bringen kann, die geistreiche Schrift Plato abzusprechen;' and Fraccaroli in his introduction to Pindar has made the Ion the starting point of his theory of lyric poetry (A. J. P. XV 505). The hiatus test puts the Ion in the neighborhood of the Meno, the Meno average being 38.28, the Ion average 38.06. There are 13 wσnep's; and never a kabáπEр. Mr. M. A. BAYFIELD has made himself responsible for a new edition of Sophokles' Elektra (Macmillan) in the preface to which after the inevitable compliment to Sir RICHARD JEBB'S 'incomparable editions' of the poet's works he adds 'Kaibel's interesting edition of the play came into my hands only after this book had gone to press.' For this laches there is no possible excuse. KAIBEL'S edition of the Elektra, which Mr. BAYFIELD deigns to find interesting appeared in 1896, and was reviewed in this Journal in 1897 (XVII 353-6). It is safe to say that all conscientious editors of the Elektra must deal seriously with KAIBEL; and while the steadfast contemplation of one's own centre may be conducive to peace of mind, the oupaλóvuxo of classical philology will find little sympathy in this restless age, so that Mr. BAYFIELD must not be surprised if his edition suffers in repute as it has suffered otherwise for his having ignored KAIBEL's. 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