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the so-called "private" land, primarily
groves and gardens. All categories might
be beneficially enjoyed, directly operated,
or leased in ways which are not easy to
follow, and thus the authors have been
obliged to construct, in effect, their own
system of land tenure and use in order to
present a systematic picture; and even so
it has been necessary to include "les cas
indetermines" to avoid pushing the evi-
dence too far. Almost equally complex is
the pattern of animal husbandry, which
in traditional Egyptian fashion reached
into every area of possible profit: hunting
and fishing as well as bee culture, the
raising of birds, of pigs, of sheep and
goats, and of the larger animals. All of
these problems, and the method of their
solution, are outlined with bibliography in
the brief introduction, which represents a
real step forward in the study of these
basic areas of Ptolemaic economy.
We congratulate Professors Peremans
and Van 't Dack, and wish them continued
success in their great undertaking.
C. BRADFORD WELLES
Yale University
Opera minora. By RAFAEL TAUBEN-
SCHLAG. Vol. I: Allgemeiner Teil;
Vol. II: Spezieller Teil. Warsaw:
Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe,
1959. Pp. xiv + 639; vii + 844.
The collection of the scattered papers of
our great scholars and their publication
together in such volumes as these is a
great service to scholarship and a worthy
tribute to the master, accomplished here
by the brilliant group of Professor
Taubenschlag's pupils who remain anony-
mous. The first volume carries an intro-
duction and tribute by the Italian jurist
Professor Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz, whose
own distinguished work in the field of
ancient law has placed him in a position
well to appreciate the contribution of his
Polish colleague; but otherwise the vol-
umes contain only the papers themselves,
with the reference to their original place
of publication. The second volume con-
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cludes with a list of juridical passages
discussed, the best kind of index for the
reader. This is a great labor of love by
those whose names are known to their
contemporaries, but in the interest of
future generations we may wish that they
had not chosen to be so self-effacing.
The papers themselves cover a scholarly
lifetime of half a century, and range widely
in subject as well as in length. The col-
lection opens with a book-length study of
the Roman law in the time of Diocletian,
and this is followed in the first volume by
papers on Roman provincial law and the
so-called jus gentium and on the laws of
Greek cities. The second volume contains
papers on the legal sources and on a wide
variety of problems dealing with status,
property, obligations, the legal process, and
criminal law. It is an impressive document,
and a reminder of the towering character and
vast learning of the author. The volumes
will find constant use among papyrologists
and students of Greek, Roman, and Hel-
lenistic law.
C. BRADFORD WELLES
Yale University
Personenwechsel in Menanders "Dyskolos."
By FRANZ STOESSL. ("Osterreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philo-
sophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungs-
berichte," 234. Band, 5. Abhandlung.)
Vienna: Hermann Bohlaus Nachf., 1960.
Pp. 91.
This study examines the problem of
speech distribution in the Dyscolus. In the
author's own words (p. 16, n. 14): "Die
meisten Kritiker unseres Textes urgieren
zwar gelegentlich Beachtung der Zeichen
fur Sprecherwechsel, neglegieren sie aber
ebensooft. Da eine systematische Unter-
suchung des Notierungssystems noch fehlt,
mangelt auch Konsequenz in dieser Frage."
Stoessl (S.) attempts to supply this want;
his procedure is to state certain principles
and then apply them line by line to the
text.
S. plausibly argues that the notation in
the papyrus goes back to Menander-the