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go to my fellow students of ancient laughter: To Stephen Halliwell, who read and discussed two key chapters with me (and boosted my confidence when it was flagging), and to Catherine Conybeare, who did likewise and kindly shared a preliminary version of her new book, The Laughter of Sarah (which coincidentally arrived on my desk in printed form just as I was writing my afterword). And above all to Peter Stothard, who came to the rescue on several occasions when I was feeling defeated by what I was trying to write; he had a wonderful knack of seeing my point, and how it could most effectively be put, better than I did myself.
    My family, Robin, Zoe, and Raphael, have helped in all the ways that families do, and more—including (in Raphael’s case) the filial duty of helping to check references and translations. They deserve a bit of a break from Laughter in Ancient Rome.

Texts and Abbreviations
    In the notes, I have followed the conventions of L’Année philologique for abbreviating the titles of periodicals. For titles of ancient works, I have given a fairly full version or used the abbreviations of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (third edition). In a few cases where it is standard practice and there can be no confusion (e.g., Catullus or Livy), my references omit the title entirely. All translations, unless otherwise indicated, are my own. I have used standard editions of ancient texts—Oxford Classical Texts, Teubners, or recent Loebs—but have pointed to different manuscript readings where significant. For modern works with a potentially misleading discrepancy between the date of the edition I have cited and the date of first publication, I have indicated both, in this form: Hobbes 1996 [1651].
    Other abbreviations are as follows:
     
     
AE
L’Année épigraphique: Revue des publications épigraphiques relatives à l’antiquité romaine. Paris, 1888–.
AL
Anthologia Latina, ed. A. Riese et al. Leipzig, 1894–1926.
Anec. Graeca
Anecdota Graeca, ed. I. Bekker. Berlin, 1814–21.
AP
Anthologia Palatina, in The Greek Anthology, Loeb Classical Library, ed. W. R. Paton. London, 1916–18.
CGL
Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, ed. G. Goetz et al. Leipzig, 1888–1923.
CIL
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Berlin, 1863–.
DK
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker griechisch und deutsch, 11th ed., ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz. Zurich and Berlin, 1964.
GCN
Groningen Colloquia on the Novel. Groningen, 1988–.
GLK
Grammatici Latini, ed. H. Keil. Leipzig, 1855–80.
IDelos
Inscriptions de Délos. Paris, 1923–.
ILS
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, ed. H. Dessau. Berlin, 1892–1916.
Jacoby, FGrHist
Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Berlin, Leiden, 1923–.
L&S
A Latin Dictionary, ed. C. T. Lewis and C. Short. Oxford, 1879.
LGPN
A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, ed. P. M. Fraser et al. Oxford, 1987–.
LIMC
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Zurich, 1981–.
New Pauly
Brill’s New Pauly, ed. H. Cancik, H. Schneider, and M. Landfester, English trans. ed. C. Salazar and F. G. Gentry. Leiden, 2002–10.
OLD
Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. P. Glare. Oxford, 1982 (rev. 2012).
PLM
Poetae Latini Minores, ed. A. Baehrens. Leipzig, 1879–83 (rev. F. Vollmer).
P.Oxy.
Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Egypt Exploration Society. London, 1898–.
PPM
Pompei, pitture e mosaici, ed. G. Pugliese Carratelli. Rome, 1990–99.
Rerum memorandarum Lib.
F. Petrarca, Rerum memorandarum Libri, ed. G. Billanovich. Florence, 1945.
ROL
Remains of Old Latin, Loeb Classical Library, ed. E. H. Warmington. London and Cambridge, MA, 1935–40.

References
Alpers, P. 1979. The Singer of the “Eclogues” A Study in Virgilian Pastoral. Berkeley and London.
Andersen, Ø., and J. Haarberg. 2001. Making Sense of Aristotle: Essays in Poetics. London.
André, J. 1972. Pline l’Ancien, “Histoire Naturelle,” Livre XXIV. Paris.
Andreassi, M. 2004. Le facezie del “Philogelos”: Barzellette antiche e umorismo moderno. Lecce.
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