This edition of my Studies has been greatly enlarged by a much more ambitious attempt to apply the results of linguistic examination to most parts of the two poems (Part B). It has been my aim to set forth for the consideration of scholars everything known to me that seemed to have any relevance to the kind of question discussed in the book. For this purpose I have drawn not only on the material provided by the systematic investigations of Part A, but also on Ebeling, Leaf and Ameis-Hentze, and on the books by Risch, Leumann and Wackernagel mentioned in the Introduction. A detailed examination of the work of the latter group was planned, but abandoned as adding too much to the bulk of an already swollen book, and replaced by mere references to their books or else to Frisk or Chantraine.

The special position of the language of similes, and also of digressions, descriptions and comments, a theme of my older book, seems to be confirmed. For the recurrence of various types of comments, to me an interesting aspect of Part B, the reader is asked to consider the relevant part of the Index an integral portion of the book. That speeches tend to be later in language and to have more other abnormalities than the narrative has been noted by readers of the first edition and has now been stressed in the analysis of several books. The subject would no doubt repay a systematic treatment.