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Excerpt from The Scholia on the Aves of Aristophanes: With an Introduction on the Origin, Development, Transmission, and Extant Sources of the Old Greek Commentary on His Comedies The definitive edition of the scholia on Aristophanes is still to be published.1 The present book covers only one play, but aims to give a full report of the manuscript sources of its scholia. I had no thought of writing it when I began many years ago a special study of these scholia, in which much mate rial of various kinds has been gradually collected; but in 1903 I was advised that scholars would welcome the publication of some such part of my material as is here given. That was an agreeable suggestion, and the Birds seemed a proper play for the purpose: its Greek commentary is among the best on these plays, and the manuscripts that furnish the text of this, while adequately supplementing and correcting one another, are not overwhelming in number. The work proceeded leisurely, with interruptions, and three years later the body of the book (pages 1 - 303) was finished and electrotyped and the plates stored in the vaults of the Athenaeum Press. There they have lain until the present year. The reasons for this are personal and need not be inflicted on the reader, but I welcome this Opportunity to express my grateful appreciation of the considerate patience with which my publishers tolerated conduct apparently so erratic and unreasonable. My relations with the late Edwin Ginn, an able. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.