TREATISES ATTRIBUTED TO CYPRIAN ON QUESTIONABLE AUTHORITY. HE treatiseswhich followare usuallyclassedunder thedoubtfulworks of Cyprian. Baluzius,however, givesthe two first,On the Public Shows, and On theGloryof Martyrdom, among thegenuine Opus- cula,and says: u I have not thought itfitto prejudiceany one amid the diversityof opinionson the subject,but have refrainedfrom separatingthe followingfrom the genuine works of the blessedmartyr, especiallysince many have observed that there is no such differenceof stylein these writings as to justifythe denial of their authorshipto Cyprian." Of course the questionisone almost entirelyof criticism, and the translatorleavesthe discussionof itto ablerhands. He ventures,however, to record his impression,that the style of the followingwritingsthroughout is more preten tious and laboured,and far more wordy and involved,than that of Cyprian'sundoubted works. With a more copious vocabulary,thereismanifestedlessskillin the use of words ; and if the textbe not in some placesmost elaboratelyand unintelligiblycorrupt,the accumulationof epithets,as well as their collocation,seems the very wantonness of rhetoric. The text,however, is undoubtedly far lessto be depended upon than in the caseof the genuine works. 219