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Contents : — 

 How were the Bodies of Criminals at Athens Disposed of after Death 



Herman Hager. 

 Upon Notices of Army Surgeons in Ancient Greek Warfare. H. 



Hager. 

 " Shall " and " Should " in Protasis, and their Greek Equivalents. 



W. W. Goodwin. 

 Lucretius Proemium and Epicurean Theology. John Masson. 

 Notes on the vEneid. H. Nettleship. 

 An Interpretation of DM3 \\V- C. Taylor. 

 A Word of Lucilius. R. Ellis. 

 On the Dirae. R Ellis. 



On some Passage^; in the Medea of Euripides. W. C. Green. 

 On some Peculiarities in the Use of the Future Participles of Greek 



Verbs. F. A Paley. 

 On Choephoroe 472—3 (481—2 Dind.). F. A. Paley. 

 On the iVlS. of Sophocles in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. 



' L. Campbell. 

 The Antigone of Sophocles. Two Criticisms. Evelyn Abbott. 

 Note on Odyssey v. 368. Henry Molden. 



Note on Xenophon's Hellenics. I. c. vii. § 2. Henry Maiden. 

 On the word /3ovyatos and the Prefix finu-. J. P. Postgate 

 Some New Latin Fragments R. Ellis. 

 Judges and Litigants. Perceval M. Laurence. 

 On Early Greek Written Literature. Henry Hayman. 

 Some Further Observations on Ancient Theories of Causation. D. D. 



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 William George Clark. H. A. J. Munro. 



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