This is the seventy-fourth volume of the'Transactions of the American Philological
Association, but when it appeared the Association could have celebrated its seventy-fifth
birthday and was prevented from doing so only by war conditions. Our American
organization is one of the oldest societies of Classical scholars still in existence. Its annually
appearing publication, the Transactions, contains, in addition to various reports by the
officers, a series of papers which are contributed almost exclusively by members of the …

The papers in the seventy-fifth volume of the Transactions and Proceedings of the American
Philological Association were presented at the meetings in December, 1944, during one of
the darker periods of the war, at the time of the final German attempt to break out from Allied
encirclement on the western front. No indication of the strain under which the nation was
then laboring appears in this volume. Many classical scholars were away in the armed
forces or other war service; those who attended the meetings were undoubtedly each doing …