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the work, particularly in The Libation-Bearers and The Furies; to Mr. C. B. Phillips, Assistant Master of Winchester, who has gone over the whole translation with care; to Mr. D. S. Margoliouth, Fellow of New College, Oxford, who has helped me especially with several difficulties in The Furies. Other friends will, I doubt not, accept a general acknowledgment of their aid. I cannot, however, leave unspecified my gratitude to Mr. F. R. Benson and the rest of the Oxford company, who last year performed the Agamemnon on the stage, for the practical insight they afforded their audience into the spectacular as well as the literary and dramatic merit of that noblest of poems.
E. D. A. M.
Winchester, March, 1881.
