PREFACE XXI

1877 and 1883 had already proposed, Hertz had applied himself energetically and diligently to the first five books and a few chapters of the others, when death snatched him from literature, and that treasure fell into the hands of my colleague Foerster. When I requested access to it, he most graciously granted me free use of both the commentaries and the Gellian copy, which had been annotated by Hertz here and there, primarily with the conjectures of learned men. Although there were things in that commentary one might wish to remove, given that the man was diligent in books and letters, I gratefully testify that in these earlier books my resources were more than once both increased and corrected.

I will now present not only the chapters I have treated anew, but also, in cases where the work has already been done, I will note very briefly what I endorse. For since doubtful inquiries must rest upon certain foundations, it is to be hoped that these foundations are at hand. I will, however, omit cases where I would exceed the permitted space, as well as those where everything is clear because Gellius explicitly and sincerely named his own sources, and the few cases where there is not even room for conjecture.

Gellius took what he presented from the following original: "Gellius, quae protulit, desumpsit¹):":

1. H. E. Dirksen, The Excerpts from the Writings of Roman Legal Scholars in the Noctes Atticae of A. Gellius original: "Die Auszüge aus den Schriften der röm. Rechtsgelehrten in den N. A. des A. Gellius", in (Treatises of the Berlin Academy of Sciences 1851, p. 29 =) Posthumous Writings, Leipzig 1871, I, p. 21 (= Di.). L. Mercklin, The Citation Method and Use of Sources by A. Gellius in the Noctes Atticae original: "Die Citiermethode und Quellenbenutzung des A. Gellius in den Noctes Atticae", Fleckeisen’s Annals, Supplement III (1860), p. 635 ff. (= Me.); Certain Chapters of Gellius Traced Back to Their Sources original: "Gellii capita quaedam ad fontes revocata", Dorpat Index 1861; although I searched through libraries and booksellers for this short dissertation, I did not happen to see it. I know its summary, however, from Hertz, Ruske, and others (= Me. ind.); Philologus XVI (1860) 170 (= Me. Phil.); Fleckeisen’s Annals 83 (1861), p. 713 (= Me. ann.). J. Kretzschmer, On the Sources of A. Gellius. Part I. On the Grammatical Authors of A. Gellius original: "De A. Gellii fontibus. Part. I. De auctoribus A. Gellii grammaticis" (Gryphiswald dissertation), Poznań 1860 (= Kr.); Fleckeisen’s Annals 85 (1862) 361 (= Kr. ann.). L. Ruske, Selected Questions on the Sources of A. Gellius’s Noctes Atticae original: "De A. Gellii Noctium Atticarum fontibus quaestiones selectae" (Breslau dissertation), Glatz 1883 (= Ru.). O. Froehde, Roman Poet Citations in Gellius original: "Röm. Dichterzitate bei Gellius", Festschrift for J. Vahlen, Berlin 1900, 523 ff. (= Fr.). J. W. Beck, Gellian and Plinian Studies original: "Studia Gelliana et Pliniana", Fleckeisen’s Annals, Supplement XIX (1892) 1 (= Beck); On Sulpicius Apollinaris original: "De Sulpicio Apollinari", Groningen 1884; New Questions on M. Valerius Probus of Beirut original: "De M. Valerio Probo Berytio quaestiones novae", Groningen 1886 (= Beck Prob.); On the Source Analysis of Charisius original: "Zur Quellenanalyse des Charisius", Philologus XLVIII (1889) 255; The Sources in the Grammatical Note: The text cuts off mid-sentence in the original source.