Excerpt from The Journal of Philology, Vol. 21 It was my intention to go through the whole of the Ethica' and show that the interpolations of D have not only vitiated Hercher's and Bernardakis' texts, but have seriously affected the texts of Wyttenbach and Diibner, both of whom have, however, fought very shy of them; but the task of demonstrating the untrustworthiness of this MS has already been performed by a Danish scholar, Mr Larsen, in his Studio. Critica in Plutarchi Moralia (copenhagen, At present, I would offer some remarks and suggestions relating to two of the treatises with which he there deals, the De Adulatore et Amico and the De Amicorum M ultitudine. Of these two, the latter is in much the most unsatisfactory condition. It lent itself more readily to cor ruption, as it is Obviously an immature work, in which the argu ment does not glide smoothly but takes rather awkward turns and jumps, perhaps necessitated by considerations of space or time. There are, however, no actual hiatus in the argument which would warrant us in supposing that an epitomator had been at work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.