Philo About the Contemplative Life (De Vita Contemplativa)

in general; then I trace out the Reformation controversy as to the book, and conclude with a detailed criticism of the views of Lucius and Grätz.

My index of the words of the Old Latin Version will, I hope, interest students of that old and popular Latin, which, being preserved in the early Latin versions of the Scriptures and of some of the Greek Fathers, was the true mother of our modern Romance tongues. Lastly, I have added a bibliography, not of former editions of the D. U. C. original: "De Vita Contemplativa"—for this is the first separate treatment which it has received—but of books, mostly controversial, which refer to it.

Of the many friends who have helped me, my thanks are especially due to Professor Massebieau for giving me his collation of several of the Paris MSS., to Dr. L. Cohn for reading the proofs of the Greek text, to Mr. St. George Stock for reading those of my Commentary, to Mr. Vernon Bartlett, of Mansfield College, for reading those of my Excursus, to the Rev. Dr. Baronian for looking over the proofs of the Armenian; finally, to all of these, and also to Lady Evans and Professor Robinson Ellis, for many valuable suggestions.

Most of all, my thanks are due to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for undertaking to bear the expense of a work which, savouring of research, is therefore likely to be unremunerative. This is the first work bearing on Philo which the University Press has in this century issued. I venture to hope it may not be the last; but that it may help to stimulate Philonean studies among us. For it is barely credible, and somewhat of a reproach to Oxford as a place of learning, that not a single line of Philo, nor any work bearing specially on him, is recommended to be read by students in our Honour School of