INTRODUCTION
intro
There seems to be no reason to discuss this little work in detail, since F. H. Sandbach Class. Quart. xxxiii (1939), pp. 198-202. G. Kowolski, De Plut. scriptorum iuvenilium colore rhetorico, Cracow, 1918, pp. 258 ff., also denied the authenticity. has shown conclusively that it cannot be genuine. Still more might be added to his proofs, sound and thorough as they are; but this is not the place to slay the slain. It is the more to be regretted that Ziegler, in the article on Plutarch in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie, has not had access to Sandbach’s work,This is very puzzling since Ziegler later (936) cites the same article as authoritative on rhythmical matters. though he does refer to Xylander’s athetesis, only to reject it, and might have mentioned Meziriacus’ as well.
