This volume is an edition of the poetical and grammatical fragments of Philitas of Cos, the early-Hellenistic scholar and poet who served as an exemplary model for the great Alexandrian poets. His output includes frivolous Hermes and Demeter which both had fundamental impact on later metapoetic imagery, and the Ataktoi Glossai, a glossary interpreting mainly Homeric idiom in pre-Aristarchean fashion. The body of the book consists of an Introduction discussing life, literary affiliations and metre; an edition of testimonies and fragments along with a commentary elucidating matters of language and influence on the scholar-poets, Propertius and Longus. The study of Philitas is brought up to date with new testimonies and new neglected sources for the fragments. Recent papyrological findings, verse inscriptions, lexicographic sources and inscriptions from Cos are taken into consideration. Passages dubiously ascribed to Philitas are discussed. The book closes with three Appendices and comprehensive Indexes.

Twenty days after the violence practiced by the German Gebirgsjäger on the military of the Acqui Division in Kefalonia another crime for the same reason was committed on the island of Kos by the Grenadieres of the 22nd Division of General Müller: 103 Italian officers were shot because Badogliani and, therefore, traitors. Months after the tragic event, in 66 mass graves, 66 bodies were found, of which 42 were recognized. Those bodies are in the Ossario d'Oltremare in Bari. The remains of the other 37 officers have never been found. Thanks to the financial help of friends and relatives of the officers as well as to the voluntary participation of researchers, another pit was found from which emerged bone and personal artifacts preserved in the History Museum in Kos. The few bone artifacts belonging to two 26-year-olds are buried in the Ossuary Ossuary in the Catholic Cemetery of Kos (Operation Lisia). This book highlights what emerged from testimonies and archival documents with the aim of redeeming the memory and honor of those men in arms.

The distinction that Praxagoras of Cos (4th-3rd c. BC) made between arteries and veins and his views on pulsation and pneuma are two significant turning points in the history of ideas and medicine. In this book Orly Lewis presents the fragmentary evidence for this topic and offers a fresh analysis of Praxagoras’ views on the soul and the functions of the heart and pneuma. In so doing, she highlights the empirical basis of Praxagoras’ views and his engagement with earlier medical debates and with Aristotle’s physiology. The study consists of an edition and translation of the relevant fragments (some absent from the standard 1958 edition) followed by a commentary and a synthetic analysis of Praxagoras’ views and their place in the history of medicine and ideas. The book has been awarded the Young Historian Prize of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire de Sciences (2019).

IP Network Quality: CoS, QoS, MPLS and SLAs This module focuses on the network service provided by carriers to move VoIP packets, and how network traffic is identified, managed and prioritized, resulting in Class of Service offerings to meet Service Level Agreements. You will learn about Service Level Agreements, how carriers use MPLS to manage flows of packets, Differentiated Services: different transmission characteristics for different kinds of traffic, and Classes of Service (CoS). VoIP Module 6 Detailed Outline 6. IP Network Quality: CoS, QoS, MPLS and SLAs 6.1 Virtual Circuit Technologies ...... 6.1.1 Packet-by-Packet Routing ...... 6.1.2 Virtual Circuits ...... 6.1.3 Centralized Control of Routing Tables ...... 6.1.4 Prioritization ...... 6.1.5 MPLS Replaces Legacy Technologies 6.2 MPLS ...... 6.2.1 MPLS to Implement Virtual Circuits ...... 6.2.2 Labels and Forwarding Equivalent Classes ...... 6.2.3 Label Stacking ...... 6.2.4 Label-Switched Path Calculation ...... 6.2.5 Label-Switching Routers and Label Processing ...... 6.2.6 User-Network Interface: IP 6.3 Differentiated Services (Diff-Serv) ...... 6.3.1 Different Transmission Characteristics ...... 6.3.2 Classification ...... 6.3.3 Implementation 6.4 Meters, Markers, Shapers and Droppers ...... 6.4.1 Traffic Management ...... 6.4.2 Traffic Management Functions 6.5 Interworking Diff-Serv and MPLS ...... 6.5.1 Similarities between MPLS and Diff-Serv ...... 6.5.2 Diff-Serv Codepoint in MPLS Header ...... 6.5.3 Diff-Serv Codepoint Associated with Label 6.6 Using 802.1P for QoS ...... 6.6.1 Frame-Level Priority Tag ...... 6.6.2 802.1P as an Input to DS Classification 6.7 Implementing CoS: Queuing Techniques ...... 6.7.1 Implementing Prioritization ...... 6.7.2 Priority Queuing ...... 6.7.3 Weighted Round-Robin Queuing