An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . INTRODUCTION. [EAVING the Colophon in its biblio-graphical aspects to the able hand bywhich these are about to be treated, itmay not be amiss to preface Mr. Pol-lards researches by a brief inquiry intothe origin and significance of the term itself, and thereason why the colophon for so long performed theoffice of the title-page. Colophon originally meant the head or summit of any-thing. It is clearly cognate with *opo<pY), but is a wordof far less importance, for while thirteen derivativesfrom xopocpTj are given in Liddell and Scotts
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . INTRODUCTION. [EAVING the Colophon in its biblio-graphical aspects to the able hand bywhich these are about to be treated, itmay not be amiss to preface Mr. Pol-lards researches by a brief inquiry intothe origin and significance of the term itself, and thereason why the colophon for so long performed theoffice of the title-page. Colophon originally meant the head or summit of any-thing. It is clearly cognate with *opo<pY), but is a wordof far less importance, for while thirteen derivativesfrom xopocpTj are given in Liddell and Scotts Dictionary,xoXo<p(ov has not one. The former word is continuallyused by Homer; the latter is first met with in Plato, andthen and afterwards only in a figurative sense. Yet it isclear that the word must from the first have borne thesignification of summit or crest, for such is the po- IX x INTRODUCTION sition of the city of Colophon, which must have derivedits name from its elevation, just as a modern house maybe called Hilltop. Names of this kind, if not given a
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