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Excerpt from Lyra Graeca, Vol. 3 of 3: Being the Remains of All the Greek Lyric Poets, From Eumelus to Timotheus Excepting Pindar; Including Corinna, Bacchylides, Timotheus, the Anonymous Fragments, the Folk-Songs and the Scolia, With an Account of Greek Lyric Poetry Many new readings will be found in Bacchylides, Timotheus, and Philoxenus. They have nowhere, I think, been preferred to those of earlier editors without good reason, generally palaeographical. Those of Bacchylides come of long study Of the British Museum Papyri, in the chief of which a large number of the accepted readings were found inconsistent either with the length of the gap or with the possible reading of doubtful letters. The new readings of the Persae, which are mostly due to the filling of gaps not previously attempted, are based on the facsimile and confirmed by the autopsy of Dr. Schubart. With the Banquet there was still much for ordinary emendation to do; I have thought it sufficient here to avail myself of the published accounts of the mss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.