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instance those affecting merely the order of words, I 

 have not always felt it necessary to alter Bekker's 

 text, though it might be held that ceteris paribus Z's 

 reading should be preferred. 



Bitterauf does not appear, at any rate from what 

 he has pubhshed, to have en\-isaged the existence of * 



deep-seated corruptions or serious losses from the 

 text. The furthest he ventures along this path is to 

 suggest that alfia and a-dp^ should be ^^Titten t^\•ice 

 instead of once at 722 b 34, and that kuI dioioy has 

 dropped out at 74-6 a 34 ; but the latter suggestion, 

 which is certainly right, is taken over from Busse- 

 maker. However, that loss of phrases and corrup- 

 tion of the text have occurred is sometimes clear 

 from intrinsic evidence, and loss can sometimes 

 be proved bv the sur\-ival of the original words in 

 M. Scot's translation. 



Apart froin re-examination of the mss., proposals to Conjectural 

 improve the text by conjectural emendation have emendation. 

 been made by the following : 



(1) Wimmer, who was responsible for the textual 

 work in Aubert and Wimmer 's edition of 1860, 

 made a number of conjectures, some of which he 

 incorporated in the text and others he printed 

 in the footnotes. Many of them are undoubtedly 

 correct, and some I have found are supported by 

 Scot (though I have no reason to think that 

 Wimmer himself was aware of this). 



(2) F. Susemihl," beside the work which he did on the 

 MSS., dealt ^vith the question of duplicate recen- 

 sions in the text, and also that of interpolations 



» Rhein. Mus. XL (1885), 563 flF. 



