Timaeus

PREFACE.

This would have grown into an unwieldy bulk. I have hoped, by means of the translation, to show in many cases how I thought the Greek should be interpreted, without writing a grammatical note; though, of course, it has been impossible to banish such subjects entirely.

My obligation to Dr. Jackson's essays on the ideal theory will be manifest to anyone who reads both those essays and my commentary. I am as fully as ever convinced of the high importance of his contribution to the interpretation of Plato. In his essay on the Timaeus, indeed, there are some statements to which I can by no means assent; but as that paper in its present form does not contain Dr. Jackson's final expression of opinion, I have not thought it necessary to discuss differences of view, which may prove to be very slight, and which do not affect the main thesis for which he is contending.

Lastly, I must thank my friend Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher for his kindness in examining my notes on the arithmetical passage at the beginning of chapter VII, and for mathematical information in other respects.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
17 January, 1888.