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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

Abstract: SEG LXI covers the publications of the year 2011, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2010 but pertaining to material from 2011.

Echoes of Propertius

Abstract: The following collection of possible imitations or reminiscences of Propertius in later Latin verse (Ovid excepted) down to Sidonius Apollinaris is intended to supplement that published by Hosius in his third (Teubner) edition of this author and reproduced (along with some additions by Professor G. B. A. Fletcher x)) in the Prolegomena to Professor Enk's recent edition of the Cynthia 2). Taken together, these lists should give a fairly well-balanced and comprehensive idea of Propertius' influence on his successors so far as verbal similarities reveal it.

Hellenistic Mysteries and Christian Sacraments

Abstract: This subject has been so much discussed that the reader will expect from me neither striking novelties nor a complete knowledge of what has been written about it. Nevertheless it may be worth while to try to review the situation and to submit some conclusionsx). We have perhaps reached the point where we can think of these things sine ira et studio, with no desire to explain away the rise of Christianity and with no feeling that the suggestion of Hellenistic elements

Solon's System of Property-Classes Once More

Abstract: As a reasonable explanation of Plut. Sol. XXIII, 3, never had been given, Wilcken proposed to read e?? ??? ?e t? t????ata t?? ??s??? ?????eta? p???at?? ?a? d?a???? a?t? ?ed????? instead of the reading of the mss. e?? ??? ?e ta t????ata t?? ??s??? ?t?1). An ingenious and subtle emendation indeed, which, as Thiel remarked, from a pal?ographie point of view is practically no emendation at all2). And Thiel too thinks the text of the mss. absolutely unintelligible. But in accepting the emendation, he rejects the conclusions drawn by Wilcken himself from it. And in that he is quite right. For, according to Wilcken, the emendated passage implies that Solon's system of property-classes would not have been based exclusively on landed property, but on mobile capital (i.e. on money) as well. This theory proves to be totally false, as has been convincingly demonstrated by Thiel. The Solonian system of property-classes was based on landed property, not on money as well. The Attic world of Solon's age was an agrarian community, with some industry and maritime commerce at the stage of very modest beginnings. So far I agree with Thiel. But after rejecting Wilcken's theory he gives his own explanation of the emendated passage, and that explanation I cannot accept. Whereas I cannot see any other suitable interpretation of the emendated text, I should have to reject Wilcken's correction, without being able to suggest a better one myself. Which would be poor work, that would not bring us much farther, if I could not give a reasonable, though hypothetical interpretation of the unaltered text of the mss. And I think I can.

Lateres and Latericium

Abstract: From the beginning of the Empire we see Roman building-technique apply itself increasingly to brick-construction After a period of experimenting, brick-masonry is the most usual form of wallcovering already about the middle of the first century after Christ, and in the later centuries of the Empire it has quite a dominant position both in house-building and monumental architecture Of the older wall-constructions there are some that went out of