¹ I find no entry in the bibliography later than 1980. This presumably is why the Proceedings of the Symposium Rebus Spartaci Gestis held at Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria (to commemorate the 2050th anniversary of the event) are not registered; these were not published till 1981. I note two omissions not so easily accounted for: J. P. Brisson's rather extreme book of 1959 and Giulia Stampacchia's useful collection of passages from ancient authors relating to Spartacus (La Tradizione delta Guerra di Spartaco da Sallustio a Orosio) of 1976.

² Preobrazenskij was imprisoned in 1937 and died after 4 years of incarceration in 1941 at the early age of 47. Some writings of his were posthumously published, on the initiative, it seems, of Utchenko, in 1965. Critical scholars can indeed be found in the USSR, but are terribly liable to liquidation, while the slovenly and incompetent rise to the top: is there, I wonder, a Russian word for ⋯πιπολ⋯ζουσιν?

³ Should any editor wish to offer hospitality to this suggestion, I would gladly, provided that the book's publisher's permission can be obtained, undertake to prepare a translation of the German text.

⁴ I wish this book had been available in 1977 before I attended the Spartacus–Symposium at Blagoevgrad. Almost all the disturbing impressions I brought away from that hospitable and otherwise socially enjoyable gathering are confirmed and illuminated in this book of Rubinsohn, which enriches in retrospect what was at the time a bizarre but informative experience.