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gratitude the debt I owe for counsel and help to certain of 

 my friends, whose names I yet hesitate to state, " pour ne point 

 leur donner une part de responsabilite dans les fautes que 

 je suis seul coupable d'avoir laisse subsister." 



They are: Mr. A. B. Cook, Reader in Classical Archaeology at 

 Cambridge ; Dr. Bernard Grenfell, Professor of Papyrology at 

 Oxford ; Dr. A. R. S. Kennedy, Professor of Hebrew and Semitic 

 Languages at Edinburgh ; the late, alas ! Dr. Leonard W. King, 

 of the Assyrian Department of the British Museum ; Dr. S. 

 Langdon, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford; Dr. J. W. 

 Mackail ; Dr. A. Shewan ; and last, but very far from least, 

 Mr. H. T. Sheringham. 



