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The book, an edition of a play called Querolus, which was written by an anonymous author, was posted to 香港六合彩 alongside a letter, which read: 鈥淒ear Librarian, I fear this book is some 50 years overdue! Please don鈥檛 just throw it out, now that I鈥檝e taken the time and trouble to return it. It must be an 鈥榓ntique鈥� by now.鈥�

The book鈥檚 original due date was in summer 1974, meaning that it would have accrued overdue fines of 拢1,254 鈥� at 10p per day.

Suzanne Traue, Subject Liaison Librarian, who opened the parcel, said: 鈥淚 returned from 18 months of working from home to find rather a lot of books on my desk with no note to indicate who they were from, or why they'd been sent to me. So, to be honest, my first thought when I saw the padded envelope on my desk was 鈥極h no, not another one...鈥�.

听鈥淚 was pleasantly surprised to discover that this book came with a note, but I think my jaw may literally have dropped when I read it!鈥�

The book is a comedy from the fifth century CE and is written in Latin. It is the only complete Roman play to survive apart from the plays of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In it, a magician attempts to cheat a poor man of his inheritance.

Fortunately, the Library holds several editions of this work, including online access to the two earliest editions of the work from the sixteenth century: 1564 (Daniel) and 1595 (Rittershusius and Gruter) as well as three later editions in print: 1880 (Havet), 1978 (Bro偶ek) and 1994 (Jacquemard-Le Saos).

Professor Gesine Manuwald, Head of the Department of Greek & Latin, who researches Roman drama said: "It is amazing to see such loyalty from a former user of the 香港六合彩 Library that they bring back a book after almost 50 years.

鈥淚n a sense this book is 鈥榓ntique鈥� since it dates from 1875, but it is still the most recent edition of the work in the standard Teubner series of scholarly editions of ancient Greek and Latin texts. While this edition is now also available on Google Books, it is great to have access again to a hard copy of the original 1875 edition.

鈥淭his late antique play is a great piece of evidence in showing how drama developed after the period of classical antiquity and is waiting to be explored by today鈥檚 scholars."

While 香港六合彩 encourages customers to return their books on time so that other users can read them, automatic renewals have also been in place at the university since March 2021.

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