^{page 76 note 1} It seems the author realized the value of Artemidorus Daldianus as a source after he had planned his text, and shirked the labour of intercalating the information at the appropriate places.

^{page 76 note 2} Or, so far as I know, in any other language.

^{page 76 note 3} ‘… as we should suppose on general grounds, the man in the middle … could “ pace the game”’ (94)—I must admit I cannot see why; not all readers will know ‘the Ashmolean’ (101) for what it is; ‘the Emperor Claudius, as we should expect, was no great sportsman’ (215).

^{page 76 note 4} More references to modern authorities would be welcomed by scholarly readers.

^{page 76 note 5} The chapter on Weight-Lifting after much interesting discussion comes to the conclusion that it was not a sport of the Greeks and the Romans. On a smaller scale there are many (admittedly piquant) irrelevancies, e.g. in 165 B.C. the open race for ridden colts at Athens was won by the future Ptolemy VI Philometor; ‘he was the great[?]-great-great-uncle of Cleopatra’ (160).

^{page 76 note 6} ut…inde certamen oriretur (Cassiod. Var. iii. 51. 7), ‘in order that … the real dogfight may not start before that point’ (188); τ⋯ν δ⋯ ⋯ναβ⋯την ἔτι ⋯ρχομ⋯νου το⋯δρ⋯μου συν⋯πεσν ⋯ναβ⋯ποβαδεῖν αὐτ⋯ν (Pausan. vi. 13. 9), ‘early in the race she unshipped her jockey’ (180); etc.

^{page 76 note 7} ‘flabby internationalism’ (48); modern theatre (314); A. E. Housman, ‘that erratic writer’, is the object of an unfair, mistaken, and unnecessary attack (106). In a first draft of this review I added a caustically crushing comment of the type Housman might have made on the elementary errors our author makes in this very attack. But the fount of pity was not quite dried up (cf. Housman, A. E., Juvenalis Saturae², p. xiii)Google Scholar.

^{page 77 note 1} Though not impeccable the proof-reading is good; yet the dimensions of the track of the Circus Maximus cannot be intended to read 650 × 250 yards (186)!