uthor has overlooked, and there are omissions
which are unaccountable. Yet, in spite of such defects, the importance
of the _Constitution_ can hardly be exaggerated. Its recovery has
rendered obsolete any history of the Athenian constitution that was
written before the year 1891. Before this date our knowledge was largely
derived from the statements of scholiasts and lexicographers which had
not seldom been misunderstood. The recovery of the _Constitution_ puts
us for the first time in possession of the evidence. To appreciate the
difference that has been made by its recovery, it is only necessary to
compare what we now know of the reforms of Cleisthenes with what we
formerly knew. It is much of it evidence that needs a careful process of
weighing and sifting before it can be safely used; but it is, as a rule,
the best, or the only evidence. The First Part may be less trustworthy
than the Second; it is not less indispensable to the student of
constitutional history.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--A conspectus of the literature of the _Constitution_
complete down to the end of 1892 is given in Sandys p. lxvii., and,
though less complete, down to the beginning of 1895 in Busolt,
_Griechische Geschichte_, 2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 15. In the present
article only the most important editions, works or articles are
mentioned.

Editions of the text: _Editio princeps_, ed. by F. G. Kenyon, 30th
January 1891, with commentary. Autotype facsimile of the papyrus
(1891). _Aristotelis_ [Greek: politeia Athenaion], ed. G. Kaibel et
U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Berlin, Weidmann, 1891). _Aristotelis
qui fertur_ [Greek: Athenaion politeia] recensuerunt H. van Herwerden
et J. van Leeuwen (Leiden, 1891). Teubner text, ed. by F. Blass
(Leipzig, 1892). Edition of the text without commentary by Kenyon.

Most of these have passed through several editions. The fullest
commentary is that contained in the edition of the text by J. E.
Sandys (London, 1893). The best translations are those of Kenyon, in
English, and of Kaibel and Kiessling, in German.

Works dealing with the subject: Bruno Keil, _Die Solonische
Verfassung nach Aristoteles_ (Berlin, 1892); G. Gilbert,
_Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens_ (Eng. trans.,
1895); U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, _Aristoteles und Athen_ (2
vols., Berlin, 1893), a work of great importance, in spite of many
unsound conclusions; E. Meyer, _Fo