Excerpt from An Essay on Colophons: With Specimens and TranslationsThe idea especially implied in the Greek proverbial phrase to put on the colophon is that of putting the finishing stroke to anything, as when a building is com pleted by the addition of the coping-stone, or a discourse is summed up by a recapitulation of its general gist. Is the word simply used in the sense of a crowning peak? Or has it a special connection with the city of Colophon? Ancient writers assert the latter, and assign two reasons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.