The Journal of Philology

Founded in 1868 by the Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910), William George Clark (1821–78), and William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), this biannual journal was a successor to The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Unlike its short-lived precursor, it survived for more than half a century, until 1920, spanning the period in which specialised academic journals developed from more general literary reviews. Predominantly classical in subject matter, with contributions from such scholars as J. P. Postgate, Robinson Ellis and A. E. Housman, the journal also contains articles on historical and literary themes across the 35 volumes, illuminating the growth and scope of philology as a discipline during this period. Volume 6, comprising issues 11 and 12, was published in 1876.

Theophrastus 'peri nomon'; The last elegy of the third or second book of Propertius; Seneca's tragedies; Emendation of a passage in Propertius; Notes on certain derivations; Origin of the word 'gypsy'; On the word 'glamour' and the legend of 'Glam'; Heraclitus and Ammianus Marcellinus; Miscellaneaous notes; Duumviri and triumviri, saeculum, superstes, superstitio, superstitiosus; On dislocation in the text of the fifth book of the [Nicomachean] Ethics; On pseudo-archaic words and inflexions in the Homeric vocabulary, and their relation to the antiquity of the Homeric poems; Note on Isaiah VIII–X; Note on a passage of Plato Soph. 262 D; The hastamalaka; Conjectural emendation of the Samaritan Targum on Gen. XIV, 5; Notes on (1) to save appearances, (2) In puris naturalibus; Notes on the Ajax of Sophocles; Note on Plato, Theaetetus 207 E; On the so-called Arabicus mons; On Eth. Nic. II, 7; The legend of the Chapman of Swaffham church; Modern Greek ballads from Corsica; On Aristotle, Metaph. I, 1, 6; On a MS of the Nicomachean Ethics; Notes by the late Professor T.H. Key; On the position of the guests at a Roman dinner-table; On the northern Buddhist legend of Avalokiteswara's descent into the hell Avichi; Notes upon (1) the root 'ak', (2) the root 'magh', (3) the root 'are'; Notes on the edition of Select Private Orations of Demosthenes by Paley and Sandys; Notes on a passage in Cicero, Orator, c. 48; Some remarks on the Gothic particle '-h', '-uh'; On the quantity of 'hoc'; On the Aratea of Germanicus; On three Greek epigrams in Vitruvius; On 'arcesso' and 'accerso'; On Plato, Soph. 262 D; On Greek lexicography; Notes on Virgil.

Founded in 1868 by Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910), William George Clark (1821-78), and William Aldis Wright (1831-1914), this biannual journal survived until 1920, spanning the period in which modern academic journals developed. These 35 volumes illuminate the growth and scope of classical philology.