bequeathed to our time. The catalogue would almost fill
a volume. But while the opinions of many of these
writers are often of very little moment, the scholia at-
tached to their manuscripts are of great importance, for
they give us extracts from works now lost in oblivion,
the Cyclic poets for example. Eustathius of Thes-
salonica, a writer of the twelfth century, is one of the
last of this list of commentators whose works are valua-
ble on this account.

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