'Les services qu'il a rendus aux futures recherches sur Properce sont tout simplement inestimables.'Daniel Knecht, L'Antiquité Classique, 1971.'...represents a real and lasting contribution to Propertian scholarship.'Anthony A. Barrett, Classical Philology, 1974.'Mr W.R. Smyth has now earned the warm gratitude of every interested scholar by compiling an index of all proposals known to him.'G.P. Goold, Phoenix, 1971.