Note 75 — INTRODUCTION (continued 2)

de C.V. 214 7. There is, perhaps, room for a book or dissertation on Quotation in Classical Antiquity: with reference to such points as the citation or non-citation of authorities, the employment of literary illustrations, the poetical quotations in the Orators or in the Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία or in the Poets themselves; and so forth. On the question of verbal fidelity, something is said in the present editor’s brief article on ‘Dionysius of Halicarnassus as an authority for the Text of Thucydides’ (Classical Review xiv. 244-246); and such quotations as that from Odyss. xvi. 1-16 in c. 3 of the present treatise might be critically examined from the same point of view. A similar study of Translation in Classical Antiquity would also be a useful piece of work.