title: Iamblichus: On the Mysteries (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, V. 4.) (English and Greek Edition)
author: Emma C. Clarke
description: Emma C. Clarke teaches at The Latymer School in North London, England. John M. Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Jackson P. Hershbell is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Minnesota.
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  H. P. LOVECRAFT
  
  
  COLLECTION
  
  
  
  
  
  IBID
  
  
  
  
  
  "...as Ibid says in his famous Lives of the Poets."
  
  
  From a student theme.
  
  
  
  
  
  The erroneous idea that Ibid is the author of the Lives is so frequently met
  with, even among those pretending to a degree of culture, that it is worth
  correcting. It should be a matter of general knowledge that Cf. is responsible
  for this work. Ibid's masterpiece, on the other hand, was the famous Op. Cit.
  wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman expression were
  crystallised once for all - and with admirable acuteness, notwithstanding the
  surprisingly late date at which Ibid wrote. There is a false report- very
  commonly reproduced in modern books prior to Von Schweinkopf's monumental
  Geschichte der Ostrogothen in Italien- that Ibid was a Romanised Visigoth of
  Ataulf's horde who settled in Placentia about 410 A. D. The contrary cannot be
  too strongly emphasised; for Von Schweinkopf, and since his time Littlewit1
  and Bêtenoir, 2 have shewn with