chapters was of no small value; by the Rev. H. G. Grey, of whose learning they would fain have made a fuller use; and by Prof. F. C. Burkitt, to whom they owe several valuable suggestions. The authorities of the Clarendon Press have shown no small kindness and patience; and to Dr. Sanday the editors are particularly grateful, since to him they owe their connexion with a task which, whatever the character of its results, has been to them one of remarkable interest. The long period over which the work has been spread and the difficulties under which it has been carried out must be held responsible for some of the anomalies and inequalities which disfigure it; but the editors are all too conscious of many blemishes and shortcomings in a task which none but an expert in two or three different lines could hope to achieve to perfection.
Venice,
All Saints' Day, 1906.
