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 7, comprising issues 13 and 14, was published in 1877.

Notes on Virgil, II; On the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, vv. 904–7; De Verg. Geo. III, 400–403; Greek lexicography, II; Suggestions for addenda and corrigenda to Liddell and Scott's lexicon; 'Inhabile' in Seneca De otio 3, 4; Frangere toros; On the Latin negatives 'ne' and 'non'; A lacuna in Arrian; Aristotle's dialogue 'On philosophy'; Notes on inscriptions at Alexandria; The chronology of the Jugurthine War; Juvenal, Sat. XV, 104; On some misconceptions of Aristotle's doctrine on causation and 'to automaton'; The topography of the Oedipus Coloneus; Note on Plato's Theaetetus, pp. 142, 143; On two Greek inscriptions found at York; A conjectural emendation of Colossians ii, 18; 'Hus lousamene eis kulismon borborou'; On the inscription in Daniel v. 25; Two Ephesian inscriptions; On Greek deponent verbs with aor. in 'then'; Emendations in Euripides and Euphron; Investigation of some Greek verbs which form or seem to form a parathetic compound with the negative prefix; Richard Shilleto; Grandis, laetus, aura; Note on Cic. Orat. c. 48, 160; On Greek lexicography, III; Notes on 'Liddell and Scott'; In Petronii Satyricon, I; On an inscribed Greek vase with subjects from Homer and Hesiod; Thucydides III, iv; Aristot. Polit. I, 3, Anthol. IX, 482; On the Ibis of Ovid; On the Aratea of Germanicus; Lucretius II, 1162; On a Greek epigram; Notes on Virgil, III; Note on Eusebius H.E. I, 13; Note on Horace I. Sat. III, 120, 121; The missing fragment of the fourth book of Esdras; Some doubts as to the performance of trilogies or tetralogies at Athens; Luciliana; Hidros, Diabolus; Note on Aristotle.

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.