Scholia.

Leyden, 1641, 2 vols., 8vo, by J. Hoelzlin, with a Latin version.

Oxford, 1777, 2 vols., 4to, by J. Shaw, with a Latin version.

Strassburg, 1780, 8vo and 4to, by R.F.P. Brunck.

Rome, 1791-1794, 2 vols., 4to, by Flangini, with an Italian translation.

Leipzig, 1797, 8vo, by Ch. D. Beck, with a Latin version. A second
volume, to contain the Scholia and a commentary, was never published.

Leipzig, 1810-1813, 2 vols., 8vo. A second edition of Brunck by G.H.
Schaefer, with the Florentine and Parisian Scholia, the latter printed
for the first time.

Leipzig, 1828, 8vo, by A. Wellauer, with the Scholia, both Florentine
and Parisian.

Paris, 1811, 4to, by F.S. Lehrs, with a Latin version. In the Didot
series.

Leipzig, 1852, 8vo, by R. Merkel, "ad cod. MS. Laurentianum." The
Teubner Text.

Leipzig, 1854, 2 vols., 8vo, by R. Merkel. The second volume contains
Merkel's prolegomena and the Scholia to L, edited by H. Keil.

Oxford, 1900, 8vo, by R.C. Seaton. In the "Scriptorum Classicorum
Bibliotheca Oxoniensis" series.

The text of the present edition is, with a few exceptions, that of the
Oxford edition prepared by me for the Delegates of the Clarendon Press,
whom I hereby thank for their permission to use it.

The English translations of Apollonius are as follows:--

By E.B. Greene, by F. Fawkes, both 1780; by W. Preston, 1803. None of
these are of value. There is a prose translation by E.P. Coleridge in
the Bohn Series. The most recent and also the best is a verse
translation by Mr. A.S. Way, 1901, in "The Temple Classics."

I may also mention the excellent translation in French by Prof. H. de La
Ville de Mirmont of the University of Bordeaux, 1892.

Upon Alexandrian literature in general Couat's _Poesie Alexandrine, sous
les trois premiers Ptoletmees_, 1882, may be recommended. Susemihl's
_Geschichte der Griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandinerzeit_, 2
vols., 1891, is a perfect storehouse of facts and authorities, but more
adapted for reference than for general reading. Morris' _Life and Death
of Jason_ is a poem that in many passages singularly resembles
Apollonius in its pessimistic tone and spirit.

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS

THE ARGONAUTICA

BOOK I

SUMMARY OF BOOK I

Invocation of Phoebus and cause of the expedition
(1-22).--Catalogue of the Argonauts (23-233).--March of the heroes
to the port: farewell of Jason and Alcimede
(234-305).--Preparations for depar