1. τὸν μὲν πρῶτον λόγον] ‘The Gospel according to St Luke’, which also commences with a formal inscription to Theophilus, Luke 1:1–4. λόγος (‘treatise’ A. and R. V.) is a very general term applied to any ‘narrative’ or ‘account’. Plato contrasts it with μῦθος ‘a (fictitious) tale’, Phaedo 61 B ποιεῖν μύθους, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ λόγους. The phrase λόγον ἐποιησάμην is more simple and less formal than the ἱστορίης ἀπόδειξις of Herod. 1:1, or the ξυνέγραψε of Thuc. 1:1. πρῶτον by a