Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

endeavored to have the Greek and Latin classical writers completely. I have only felt no compunction about passing over the lesser-known grammarians and orators, and I believe I should have proceeded in the same way regarding the Greek dramatic poets in the first part, of whom only insignificant pieces have been handed down to us. Several writers have been left out because of the uncertainty in which I remained regarding their age, such as Onosander, Timaeus, Chariton, Moeris,