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^ TO) (sic) avveardvai PZ, om. Y. ' ri cm. SZ. 



* procul dubio secludenda (cf. 772 a 22) : om. 2. 

 ^ Xeyovaiv addunt YS. 



* ovKevovoas Z. credo etiam Sid to . . . ovaas secludenda. 



" The words supplied are necessary to complete the argu- 

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 Scot's version (see app. crit.). They were no doubt ousted 

 from the Greek text by the additional remarks about fig- 



434 



