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² His Prolegomena were reprinted in Valpy's Classical Journal, vols. vii and viii; and subsequently as a separate tract, ed. Fr. Ern. Ruhkopf (Leipzig, 1816). Knight is not recorded in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; there is a good brief article in DNB by Warwick Wroth, not mentioned by either Messmann, F. J., Richard Payne Knight. The Twilight of Virtuosity (Studies in English Literature 89) (The Hague & Paris, 1974)CrossRefGoogle Scholar or Clarke, M.–Penny, N., The Arrogant Connoisseur: Richard Payne Knight 1751–1824. Essays…together with a catalogue of works exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 1982 (Manchester, 1982).Google Scholar

³ I have not been able to check the fragments of Part II, since Bekker's edition is not available to me.

⁴ This error recurs: see chh. 18, 19, 39. At ch. 24 nimirum is (in its context) correctly rendered ‘no doubt’. The point is clearly expounded by Fowler, s.v. douhtless, no doubt, undouhtedly.

⁵ Cf. ‘idiosyncracies’ (p. 6). This appears to be a Princeton U.P. house spelling, but scholars with a respect for words should not allow themselves to be dictated to by Greekless publishers.