ponderous incongruity at certain points seems to have been a part of the author's intention.
My debt to preceding commentators is naturally unhmited. It is defined for particular acknowledgment where this seems fitting, but much of the material of comment has become common property, an evident result of the useful offices of the lexicon as a concordance of examples. My sincerest thanks are offered to those who have helped me by suggestions. Especially to Professor Harry Thurston Peck, at whose proposal the making of this edition of the Apocolocyntosis was begun and whose personal interest and criticisms have been as important to its completion as his lectures had been inspiring to the motives of my work, I am under the greatest indebtedness. I wish to add special acknowledgments also to Professor James Chidester Egbert, Jr., to whom I owe, as but one of my obligations, appreciation of the evidences afforded by Latin epigraphy on the historical side of the present study.
A. P. BALL.
College of the City of New York,
November, 1902.
