Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies (Stromata) Book VII

vii PREFACE.

Dr. E. A. Abbott and Dr. Gifford for useful suggestions, and to Dr. Otto Stählin—who is now occupied with a complete edition of the works of Clement—for allowing me to use his collation of the Clementine Anthologies and the Laurentian manuscript for this book, the accuracy of which I have been able to verify through my own examination of the manuscript.

Other obligations are acknowledged in specific sections of the work, but I feel bound to express my thanks here for the great help I have received from the reader at the Cambridge Press, especially in revising the Index of Greek words.

Perhaps it may be well to add that in the years that have passed since I undertook this work, my views have sometimes undergone modification. The readings in the text are not always those that I favored when I was engaged on the notes. Such differences are noted in the Addenda list of additions or corrections. Furthermore, regarding the Translation, I have sometimes provided the meaning of an emendation a correction or proposed change to a text suggested in the critical notes, even though I might not feel sure enough of its correctness to alter the main text.

J. B. M.

July 1902.