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translated “drachmas” by “ guineas,” though “ shil-
lings” would have been nearer the truth. But the
context seemed to require it. It was necessary that
the envoys should be thought overpaid, and the word
“shillings” would not have given the impression.

I have many obligations to acknowledge. Perhaps ©
my largest debt is to the translation of Mr. Hookham .
Frere. These I have even ventured to alter and
compress, and to mingle with them some of my own
renderings. I owe much to the admirable versions
by Mr. B. B. Rogers of the Wasps and the Peace,
and to the editions of Mr. Merry, one of the most
ingenious and felicitous of Aristophanes’s critics. I
would mention also a translation of the Acharnians
by Mr. Billson, and of the Women in Parliament
by the Rev. R. Smith. Mr. Lucas Collins’s. excellent
summaries in the “Ancient Classics for English
Readers” I have also found useful.

ALFRED J. CHURCH.