INDEX.

A
Abernethy, Dr., the case of, [78]
Abicht, cited, [86]
Abu Simbel, temple of, [58]
Açoka, the edicts of, [44]
Agadê, discoveries in, [8]
Aldus Manutius, of Venice, reintroduces Greek literature into Europe, [295]
Alexander, correspondence of, with Aristotle, [81]; recites Euripides, [100]; buys books in Athens, [111]
Alexandria, as a book-mart, [116]; literary activity of, under the Ptolemies, [127]; concentration of existing Greek manuscripts in, [131]; the writers of, [132]; advantageous position of, [139]; publishing methods of, [140]
Alexandrian Canon, the, [134]
Alexandrian Museum and Library, organization of, [128]; wholesale purchases for, [131]; publishing undertakings of, [141]
Alexandrian School, literature of the, [129]
Alexandrian school of theology, writers of the, [146]
Alexis, writer of comedies, [96]
Alphabet, invention of, in China, [23]
American literature, relations of, with Great Britain, [172]
Anaxagoras, charged with heresies, [97]; quoted by Socrates, [98]
Andronicus of Rhodes, [117]
Andronicus of Tarentum, the first Latin playwright, [176]
Antigonus Gonatas sends scribes to Zeno, [113]
Antioch, as a literary centre, [139]; the library of, dispersed, [140]
Antipater, the Histories of, [180]
Antiphanes of Rhodes, [103]
Antiquarii, definition of, [183]
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, the Meditations of, [260]
Apellikon, a collector of books, [117]
Appollonius, work of, on conic sections, [132]
Apuleius, the writings of, [261]
Arabian Nights, the, [49]
Aratus, the astronomer, [132]
Archilochus, [59]
Aretades, the sophist, [69]
Argiletum, the street the booksellers’ quarter, [239]
Aristomenes, The Deceivers of, [103]
Aristophanes, charged with plagiarism, [71]; The Frogs of, [71], [94]
Aristophanes, the grammarian, [74]
Aristotle, criticised by Cephisodorus, [80]; writings of, [80-82]; relations with Alexander, [81]; the library of, bequeathed to Neleus, buried by heirs of Neleus, sold to Apellikon, taken to Rome by Sylla, used by Tyrannion, [90], [117]
Artemon, a grammarian, [96]
Assyrian literature, preservation of, [152]
Athanasius, [146]
Athenæus, on libraries and book-collectors, [89]; cited, [89], [95], [96], [100], [142]
Athens, the public library of, taken to Persia by Xerxes, restored by Seleucus, [89]; the book-shops of, [114]
Attali, the rivalry of, with the Ptolemies in collecting manuscripts, [116]
Atticus, sojourn of, in Athens, [117]; brings manuscripts to Rome, [118]; organizes a publishing establishment, [184]; issues Greek classics, [184]; relations with Cicero, [186], [190]
“Attikians,” term given to editions issued by Atticus, [184]
Attilius, put to death for permitting the Sibylline books to be copied, [244]
Augustan Age, Writers of the, [202], [204]
Augustus orders the pseudo-Sibylline books to be burned, [264]
B
Bark of trees used for writing by the Homeric Greeks, [155]
Barthelémi, his Travels of Anacharsis cited, [76]
Basil II., directs the writing of the Basilics, [287]; writes histories of Rome and Greece, [288]
Berosus, translations by, [139]
Birt, cited, [89], [104], [110], [130], [141], [142], [153], [155], [249], [256], [263]
Boeckh, cited, [92], [97]
Boëthius, described by Hodgkin, [280]; writings of, [280]
Bologna, influence of the University of, in publishing undertakings, [295]
Book collecting fashionable in Rome after the first century, [125]
Bookmaking terms in Rome borrowed from Alexandria, [162]
Book of Odes, the (in China), [23]
Book of the Dead, the, [12-14]
Books, in Alexandria, divisions of, [143]; ancient, materials used for, [149]; distribution and sale of, throughout the Empire, [255]; when considered injurious proceeded against under the criminal law, [267]; average duration of the copies, [271]
Booksellers, crucified by Domitian, [244]; in Rome, principal customers of, [245]
Bookselling in Athens, the business of, [102]; referred to in the comedies, [102]
Book-shops in Rome, decrease of, after Constantine, [275]
Book terminology, [149]
Book-trade of Rome influenced by the removal of the capital, [276]
Boustrophedon, the, [57]
Brahmanic priests, the writings of the, [45]
Breulier, A., on literary property in Greece, cited, [55], [90]
Bruns, cited, [83]
Buchsenschutz, cited, [97]
Buddha, or Gautama, the work of, [45]
Burckhardt, cited, [265], [266]
Bursian, cited, [247]
Byzantine Court, literary interests of, [283]; writers attached to the, [290]
Byzantine literature, characteristics of, [289]; described by Gibbon, [290]
Byzantine State, characterized by Lecky, [291]; character of, analyzed by Oman, [292]
Byzantium, the scribes of, [290]
C
Cæcilius, comedies of, [179]
Caligula, undertakes to suppress the writings of Homer, [264]; orders taken from the libraries the busts and the writings of Virgil and Livy, [264]
Callimachus, poet and editor, describes the Alexandrian Library, [130], [137]
Calvisius, pays high prices for scribes, [181]
Carthage, the literary school of, [261]
Cassiodorus, writings of, [279]
Cato, the Origines of, [180]
Caunus, inhabitants of, admirers of Euripides, [99]
Cecrops, the Milesian, edits poems of Hesiod, [66]
Censorship of books under the Emperors, [264]
Cephisodorus, cited, [80]
Cephisophon, slave of Euripides, [91]
Chabas, discoverer of the Prisse papyrus, [15]
Chaldea, early literature of, [5-9]; authors of, [8]
Chaldean “books,” methods of preparing, [150]
Chares, slave of Lycon, [115]
Cheops, or Khufa, [12]
China, beginnings of literature in, [22]; first use of written characters in, [23]; first printing in, [29]
Chinese authors, rewards of, [37]
Chinese classics, the early, [30]
Chinese literature, the golden age of, [36]
Chinese writing materials, [28]
Church of Rome, influence of, on literary production and on the preservation of books, [274]
Cicero, to Atticus concerning De Finibus, [79]; reference of, to Hermodorus, [79]; birth of, [180]; relations with Atticus, [186-190]; right to publish the works of, purchased by Dorus, [244]; Ad Quintum cited, [247]; De Finibus cited, [249]
Clearchus, library of, [91]
Clement, Paul, on literary property in Greece, cited, [54], [62], [77], [90]; on plagiarism in Greece, [77]
Codex Argenteus, [284]
Codex Parisinus of Demosthenes, authority for, [124]
College, the Royal, of Constantinople, [286]
Comedy, derivation of the term, [65]
Comnena, Anna, writes the Alexias, [288]
Comum, the library of, [246]
Confucius, [24], [25], [27]
Constantine orders the writings of Arius to be burned, [266]
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the writings of, [286]
Constantinople, established as the capital of the Empire, [282]; literary production in, [282]; the Royal College of, [286]; the fall of, [292]; destruction of manuscripts in, [292]
Cordus, the impecunious, [247]
Corea, early printing in, [29]
Corinth, capture of, [116]
Crassus, Marcus, educates slaves as copyists, [183]
Cratinus, The Mechanics of, [103]
Cruttwell, cited, [252]
Ctesias, cited, [158]
Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, [146]
D
Demetrius, the Cynic, [100]
Demetrius Phalerius, reference of, to the Alexandrian Library, [130]
Democritus, on the Science of Nature, [83]
Demosthenes, [69], [109]
Developments, the Book of, [24]
Dieulafoy, work of, in Chaldea, [7]
Diocletian, orders the destruction of works on alchemy, [265]; orders the books of the Manichæans to be burned, [265]; orders the Scriptures of the Christians to be destroyed, [266]
Diogenes Akritas, [289]
Diogenes Laërtius, cited, [88], [112-115], [119], [155], [263]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, [112]
Diphtherai (dressed skins), use of, [138]
Domitian, restores libraries burned by Nero, [247]; orders books from Alexandria, [247]
Dorus purchases the “remainders” of the editions of Cicero, [244]
Drumann, cited, [118]
E
Eckhard on the term “grammarians,” [136]
Editions of Roman publications, [255]
Edwards, Amelia B., version of the Tale of Two Brothers, [20]
Egypt, early literature of, [10-20]
Egyptian Märchen, [21]
English dramatists, relations of, with French literature, [171]
Ennius, the “father of Latin literature,” his Sicilian cookery-book, [178]
Epaphroditus, the library of, [249]
Ephesus, curious books burned in, [118]
Etruscans, the inscriptions of, [57]
Euclid, [132]
Eudocia, the Empress, writings of, [283]
Eudocia, wife of Romanus, writes treatise on the genealogies of the gods, [288]
Eumenes II., furthers the production of parchment, [158]
Euphorion, plagiarism of, [76]
Eupolis, refers to booksellers, [104]
Euripides, library of, [91]; popularity of the songs of, [99]; recitations from, by Alexander, [100]; the Bacchantes of, [101]
Eusebius, on the duration of books, [271]
Eustathius I., writings of, [288]
F
Fei-ke-mono-gatari, the (Annals), [42]
Flood, the, Chaldean account of, [9]
Folk-songs of India, [45]
Freeman, on Athenian audiences, [86]
French, the literary language of the eighteenth century, [171]
Fronto, the writings of, [261]
Fu-hi, the Emperor, [22]
G
Gaius on immaterial property, [269]
Galen, cited, [124], [157]
Gâthas, the hymns of Persia, [47]
Gautama, or Buddha, the work of, [45]
Gellius, Aulus, cited, [81], [89], [246]
Géraud, on the influence of the priestly caste on literature, [56]; on the journey of Trajan, [164]
Gibbon, on the Royal College of Constantinople, [285]; on the library of Photius, [287]; on the histories of Anna Comnena, [288]
Gnosticism in Alexandria, [147]
Golden Meadows, the, of El-Mesoudee, [49]
Gospels, the Gothic version of, [284]
“Grammarians,” the, of the Alexandrian Academy, [133]
“Grammarians” as buyers of books, [248]
Greece, the early literature of, [53]; introduction of the alphabet into, 56; reading and writing in early, [61]
Greek books, costliness of, [93]
Greek classics, distribution of, throughout the Empire, [262]
Greek manuscripts, careless copying of, referred to by Strabo, [120]
Greek language and literature, the knowledge of, throughout Europe furthered by the fall of Constantinople, [294]
Greek, the literary language of early Rome, [116], [166]; the language of higher education in later Rome, [259]
Greek written characters, first example of, [58]
Greeks, the trained memories of, [106], [107], [108]
Gutenberg and his printing-press, [295]
H
Hammer, von, cited, [49]
Harpalus, friend of Alexander, [111]; purchases books in Athens, [111]
Hebrew literature, the golden age of, [50], [52]
Hebrews, early literature of, [49]
Heeren, editor of the works of Stobæus, [287]
Hercules, prefers cookery to poetry, [96]
Hermann, cited, [98]
Hermes Trismegistus, [11]
Hermetic books of Egypt, [11]
Hermodoros sells reports of Plato’s lectures, [78]
Hermogenes of Tarsus killed by Domitian, [245]
Herodotus, the Histories of, [84-86]; in Thurium, [85]; cited, [155]
Hesiod, poems of, [66]; his Works and Days, [66]
Hezar Afsaneh, the (the thousand fanciful stories), [49]
Hezekiah, the age of, [50]
Hoang-ti, the Emperor, invents decimal system, etc., [23]
Hodgkin, T., his Theodoric the Goth cited, [281]
Homeric poems, collected under Pisistratus, [66]
Hommel, Fritz, work of, in Chaldea, [7]
Horace, on the cost of learned slaves, [181]; on plagiarists, [202]
Hostius, the Histories of, [180]
Hwang-ti, the Emperor, issues an index expurgatorius, [33]; orders destruction of classic literature, [34]
I
Iliad, miniature copy of the, described by Pliny, [118]
India, earliest literature of, [44]
Indian monasteries, manuscripts in the, [46]
Indian writers, compensation of, [46]
Indian writing materials, [46]
Iran and Turan, [48]
Isaiah, cited, [145]
Isocrates, price paid him for discourses, [77]; cited, [88]; his letters to Philip, [109]; the Parathenaicus of, [110]
Italicus, the libraries of, [249]
Izanaghi and Izanami, creators of the Japanese world, [40]
J
Japan, early literature of; early writing materials, [39], [40]
Japan, the theatre of, [42]
Japanese authors, the rewards of, [43]
Jerome, controversial letters of, [267]
Jevons, Hist. Greek Lit. cited, [58-63]
Jewish law, the, against false words, [52]
Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia, cited, [156]
Josephus, reference of, to the Alexandrian Library, [130]
Judæa, early literature of, [49]
Jurists of Rome on immaterial property, [267]
Justinian, opinion in the Institutes of, on immaterial property, [269]
Juvenal, cited, [247]; on the poet’s profession, [252]
K
Kallinus, the scribe, [115]
Karpeles on early Egyptian literature, [12-16]; on literature in China, [23]
Khufa or Cheops, [12]
Kingsley’s Hypatia, [146]
Kiriath Sepher, or the Quarter of the Grammarians, [136]
Klostermann, on Roman jurisprudence, [268]
Kang-Hi, the Emperor, interested in printing, [29]
Krates, the Cynic, [114]
L
Labeo, the jurist, writings of, [255]
Lamothe, cited, [75]
Latin, the literary language of mediæval Europe, [171]
Latin language, discontinuance of, in the Greek Empire, [285]
Latin literature affected by the removal of the capital to Byzantium, [276]
Layard, Sir Henry, discoveries in Chaldea, [5]; cited, [149]
Lead, sheets of, used for public documents, [154]
Legge, on early Chinese literature, [23]
Leo the Isaurian, [285]
Leo the Wise, writings of, [286]
Libellous publications, punishments for the circulation of, [245]; when held to be treasonable, [267]
Libraries, in Rome, [245]; in the public baths and in country houses, [249]; renewals of books in, [270]
Library, of the Temple of Apollo, [245]; of the College in Athens, [247]
Li-ki, the, or Book of Conduct, [32]
Linen sheets, use of, for private records, [154]
Linus, instructor of Hercules, [96]
“Literary Emperors,” the, of Constantinople, [286]
Literature, the beginnings of, [1]
Livy, Histories of, published by Dorus, [196]
Lollianus, Mavertius, [262]
Lucian, cited, [84], [100]; criticises the bad work done by the Athenian publishers, [123]; works of, in demand thirty years after the author’s death, [250]
Lucretius, on The Nature of Things, [196]
Lucullus brings to Rome books from Athens, [116]
Lün-yü, the, or Conversations, [32]
Lycon, Peripatetic philosopher, [115]
Lycophron, [132]
M
Ma, Egyptian goddess of truth, [11]
Macedonia, book collectors in, [96]
Mæcenas, his influence on literary production, [251]
Mahaffy, on use of memory in Greece, [63]; on the writings of Hesiod, 66; on Athenian audiences, [86]; analyzes the character of Alexandrian literature, [135]; describes the Alexandrian University, [129]
Manuscripts, destruction of, in Constantinople, [292]; taken by Greek scholars to Italy and Germany, [293]
Man-yo-sin, the (collection of ballads), [41]
Marcellinus, cited, [87]
Martial, the library of, [250]; on plagiarism, [204]; on the compensation of authors, [233], [252]; on presentation copies, [208], [209], [210]; on the prices of his books, [214]; his four publishers, [216]; as an advertiser and as a blackmailer, [206], [253]
Massilia, as a centre of higher education, [259]
Maternus, Firmicus, the Mathesis of, [262]
Meineke, cited, [103], [104], [156]
Melanippides, the poetry of, [105]
Ménant, cited, [151]
Mencius, the work of, [28]
Mengtsze, the, [32]
Metamorphoses, the Book of the, [24]
Mnaseas, father of Zeno, [111]
Moore’s Lectures, cited, [134]
Müller, on Aristophanes, cited, [94], [95]
N
Nepos, Cornelius, his Life of Atticus, [175]
Niceratus, [106]
Nichomachus, the arithmetician, [132]
Nicocles pays Isocrates for discourses, [77]
Nicophon refers to booksellers, [103]
Nineveh, royal library of, [5]
Notarii, definition of, [183]
Nü Kiai, the, or Female Precepts, [35]
O
Oman, C. W. C., on Byzantine literary history, [285]; the Byzantine Empire, [286]
Origen refers to the “swift writers of Alexandria,” [125]
P
Palimpsest, or codex rescriptus, [161]
Pammachius attempts to suppress letters of St. Jerome, [266]
Pan Chao, a female historian, [35]
Papyrus, cost of, in Greece, [94]; monopoly of, in Alexandria, [138]; disappearance of, in Egypt, [144]; used for cordage, [154]; destructibility of, [270]
Papyrus rolls, size of, [141]
Parchment, invention of, [137]
Paris, influence of the University of, in publishing undertakings, [295]
Paul orders books burned in Ephesus, [118]
Penta-on, the poem of, [17]
Pergamentum, derivation of term, [138]
Pergamum, as a literary centre, [138]; the royal library of, presented by Antony to Cleopatra, [89]; the library of, transferred to Alexandria, [140]
Pericles reduces price of seats in theatre, [76]
Persia, earliest literature of, [47]
Persian priests, [48]; poets, [48]; minstrels, [48]; story-tellers, [48]; reciters, [49]; writing materials, [49]
Peters, Jno. P., work of, in Chaldea, [7]; on the age of Hezekiah, [50], [51]
Petronius, cited, [249]
Phædon of Elis, [105]
Philoxenus of Cythera, [105]
Photius, cited, [91]; the library catalogue of, [287]
Pi-Shing invents printing from movable type, [29]
Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, [65]; bequeaths his books to Athens, [89]
Piso, the annals of, [180]
Plagiarism, in Greece, [73]; in Alexandria, [74]; in Rome, [204]
Plato, influence of, on the literary life of Athens, [77]; lectures of, [78]; the Timæus of, [72], [124]; reference of, to the book-trade of Athens, [97]; writer of comedies, [103]
Plautus, earns money by his comedies, [179]; loses money as a miller, [179]
Pliny, gives a library to Comum, [246]; on the service to literature rendered by Varro, [256]; on the importance of papyrus, [259]; on the duration of books, [271]; letters of, cited, [153], [249], [255], [265]
Plutarch, the plagiarism of, [73]; cited, [84], [89], [110], [111], [116], [157]
Porphyry of Tyre, writings of, [266]
Priests of Egypt, connection with the Book of the Dead, [14]
Printing, invention of, in China, [29]
Priscus, poems of, on Germanicus and on Drusus, [251]; put to death by the Senate, [252]
Prisse papyrus, the, [15]
Procopius, writings of, [285]
Proculus on immaterial property, [268]
Prodicus, a poem of, [96]
Pronapis initiates writing from left to right, [57]
Protagoras, receives pay for instruction, [84]; writings of, burned as heretical, [119]
Psammaticus, king, [58]
Ptah-Hotep, the Precepts of, [14], [15]
Ptolemies, rivalry of, with the Attali in collecting books, [116]
Ptolemy Soter founds the Alexandrian Museum, [128]
Ptolemy Philadelphus, develops the Alexandrian Museum into an Academy and University, [128]; prohibits export of papyrus, [138]
Publishers of Greece do not associate their names with the works issued by them, [121]
Q
Quintilian, salary of, as state rhetorician, [254]
R
Ragozin, Story of Chaldea, [10], [151]
Rameses II., Reign of, [17], [18]
Rangabé, cited, [94]
Rawlinson, George, summary of Egyptian literature, [18], [19]
Rawnsley, H. D., Notes for the Nile, [15]; metrical versions of Egyptian hymns, [17]
Reciting in Greece of literary productions, [64]
Regulus, M. Aquilus, writes the memoir of his son, [255]
Renouard, on Jewish plagiarism, [52]; cited, [244], [267]
Rhapsodists, the, of Greece, [64]
Rhodes, a centre of book production, [116]
Ritsche, cited, [156]
Ritter, cited, [117]
Rolls, of papyrus, size of, [141]
Roman authors, as “appropriators,” [166]; their difficulties in securing a public, [168]
Roman jurists on immaterial property, [267]
Roman literature, beginnings of, [163]
Roman publishers, business connection of, with Alexandria, [170]
Roman Republic gives no aid to literary undertakings, [174]
Romances of chivalry in Byzantium, [289]
Rome, becomes a literary centre, [146]; capture of, by Alaric, [278]; capture of, by Odoacer, [279]; capture of, by Theodoric, [279]; influence of Greece upon the early literature of, [165]
Rozoir’s Dictionnaire, cited, [69]
Rustem, the legend of, [48]
Rusticus, Junius, Laudation by, [265]
S
Sabinus, Petronius, copies the Sibylline books, [244]
Sabinus on immaterial property, [268]
Sammoaicus, the library of, [249]
Sanscrit literature, the earliest, [44]
Sapor II. and the Avesta, [48]
Sauppe on the Codex Parisinus of Demosthenes, [124]
Scævola, the Annales Maximi of, [180]
Schaefer, cited, [109]
Schi-king, the, [32]
Schmitz, W., on writers and booksellers in Greece, cited, [55], [90], [98], [111]
Scholars of Byzantium scattered through Europe after the capture of the city, [293]
Schöll, cited, [134]
Schu, the, (“books,”) in China, [30]
Schu-king, the, [31]
Scribes, in Egypt, [20]; in Athens, [105]; in Alexandria, [137]
Seneca, cited, [181], [244]
Senecio, Herennius, the Laudation by, [265]
Septuagint, the, begun in Alexandria 285 B.C., [136]
Servus literatus, requirements for a, [182]
Sibylline books, ownership in, claimed by the State, [234]
Sigean inscription, [57]
Simcox, cited, [163], [177], [178], [179], [245], [250-253], [255], [260], [261]
Skytale, the, [60]
Smith, George, work in London and in Chaldea, [5], [7], [150]
Smyrna, the library of, [247]
Solon, the laws of, [57]
Songs (Chinese), the Book of, [24]
Sophists, the, [65]
Sosii, the, [202]
Soto-oro-ime, Empress and poet, [41]
Stahr’s Aristotle, cited, [90]
Statius, the Thebaïd of, [254]
Stella, his poem on the “Wars of the Giants,” [251]
St. John, Second Epistle of, written on papyrus, [160]
Stobæus, the writings of, [286]
Strabo, refers to incorrect text of Greek manuscripts, [120]; refers to bookmaking in Alexandria, [137]; complains as to the inaccuracy of books, [182]
Suetonius, his Life of Domitian, cited, [244], [247], [264]; his Ludicra, [260]
Suidas, cited, [76], [154]; reference of, to Hermodoros, [79]; the Lexicon of, [288]; the plays of, [288]
Susanoo arranges sounds into syllables, [40]
Sylla, a collector of Greek books, [117]; purchases the manuscripts of Aristotle and Theophrastus, [117]
Syria, under the Seleucids, a home of Hellenism, [139]
T
Tablets of baked clay, [149]
Tablets of wax, known to Homer, in use with the Romans, [154]
Tacitus, the Agricola of, cited, [265]
Tacitus, the Emperor, orders the histories of his ancestor to be placed in the public libraries, [257]
Tacitus, the historian, cited, [251]; education of, [257]; writings of, [258]
Tagenistæ, the, of Aristophanes, [61]
Telegraph, the London, employs George Smith in Chaldea, [6]
Temple, the copyists of the, [52]
Terence, translates plates from the Greek, [179]; receives pay for stage-rights, [225]
Tertullian, the writings of, [261]
Testament, the New, almost the only literary production of importance in Syrian Greek, [139]
Theatre, in Greece, cost of admission to, [76]
Theocritus, work of, in Alexandria, [132]
Theognis, the Megarian, the device of, [61]
Theological writings distributed without profit to their authors, [147]
Theopompus, the Philippics of, [72]; refers to booksellers, [103]
Thoth-Hermes, god of wisdom and literature, [11]
Thucydides, listens to Herodotus, [86]; the daughter of, [87]
Tiberius orders certain historical writings taken from the libraries, [264]
Tibullus gives copies of his books to the Palatine Library, [246]
Tibur, the library of, [246]
Timon, [132]
Tiron, the freedman and friend of Cicero, [184]
Trajan, Asiatic expeditions of, [164]
Tribonianus on immaterial property, [268]
Trimalchio, the libraries of, [249]
Tschun-tshien, the, [32]
Tsengtze, the work of, [28]
Type first used in China, [29]
Tyrannion edits writings of Aristotle, [90], [120]
Tzetzes, John, describes the Alexandrian Library, [130]; the Chiliads of, [288]
U
Ulfilas translates the Bible into Gothic, [284]
Undertakers, the, of Egypt, the first booksellers, [13]
V
Varro, the writings of, [256]
Vedas, the, [44], [45]
Vendidad, the, [47]
Virey, P., translation of Ptah-Hotep’s Precepts, [16]
Virgil, the Æneid of, [198]
Visparad, the, [47]
Vitruvius, cited, [74]
W
Wade, Sir Thomas, cited, [36]
Wang Pih-ho, compiles a horn-book, [36]
Wilkinson, cited, [145], [152]
Williams, S. Wells, quoted, [27-36]
Women as scribes, [183]
X
Xenophon, home of, at Scillus, [88]; his method in the Anabasis, [88]; completes the Cyropædia, [88]; death of, [88]; literary undertakings of, [88]; reference of, to books saved from a wreck, [101]
Y
Yasna, the, [47]
Yescht-Sade, the, [47]
Yih, the councillor, [31]
Y-king, the, or Book of the Metamorphoses, [24]
Z
Zeller, cited, [82]
Zend-Avesta, the, [47]
Zeno, the shipwreck of, [113]
Zenodotus establishes the first grammar-school in Athens, [133]
Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, [47]