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xxiv INTEODUCTION. [ii.The vulgate text was the text of H. Stephanus :this is found in all the editions—Hudson, Duker,Gottleber—Bauer—Beck, etc.—down to the time ofBekker, with the exception of an edition of the textby Elmsley (pub. under the initials P. E., 8°, Edinburgh,1804), who inserted the Attic forms indefiance of the MSS. In 1821 appeared Bekker's1st edition, the 2nd following in 1832, and othersfrom that date, with a rapidity censured by Cobet,down to 1868. In 1823 began to appear Poppo'svast work in eleven volumes. It was completedin 1840. As Bekker is the first scientific editorof the text, so Poppo is the first scientific annotator.Among the subsequent editions, whichare enumerated in the list at the end of thefourth chapter, the most important for the text arethose of Stahl (1873), and VAN Herwerden (1877-1882), and the second edition of Poppo, edited byStahl, in which the learned editor considerably modifiesthe views he held in 1873 (Bk. ii., 1889).Van Herwerden is a Dutch critic of the mostadvanced type, of the school which looks to theUniversity of Leyden as its centre, and the lamentedCobet as its chief exponent.This school is intimatelyconnected with the English critics of Trinity College,Cambridge, of whom the greatest is Bentley. InThucydides, this school has done great service byexpelling many interpolations from the text, and bypalaeographicalemendations, and by the removal offorms vitiated by the ignorance of Byzantine grammariansand copyists.It would be little short of marvellous if the text