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sim. would do). V. 208 the scribe ought to have written 7rp(o;) 

 [xaalkov axÅ7]piaj\ 



V. 209 sqq. seem to be very corrupt; I should recommend 

 a restoration like: ~poc (3oupojva' A.af3(<x)v) axap(TOv) v.tzo AavTiou 

 ( = ),svtio>j) <(a^ov) a[j.[j.aT:a — (the number follows) xafr' a^jxa 

 ^sxacnrov ?) >iys (so Wessely and Wilcken) Ts (a' = dwroc£), KaaTwp 

 (Sic, viz. KaaTcop Kaarcop; cp. the use of xaaropsiov), ©a (Sic). 

 As to the use of the knots cp. e. g. Pap. Bibl. Nat. 330 . . . 

 auvSvjcrac to 7rÉTaAov to£c (^coSioic. [jlitco dforo icjtou, xoi^aac «[AjiaTa 

 t£e \£~fOiv (I)C oiSac; x., t. X. 



V. 212 xal [aA]i;ps aTCO tou "f Tspo octtsou p-ixP 1 T ^ JV 7r0 § < ^ v ( s ° 

 Wilcken has read correctly). I suppose tou ispou octtsou; against 

 fever Alex. Trall. vol. I, p. 402 sqq. (cp. p. 435) Puschra. also 

 recommends an oin tinen ts, e. g. vhrpov [xsTa zkcciou "ksi&aotc, ava- 



Tpi^E TOC O.XQCC TOU VOCTOUVTOC xal EV ^.OUTpCO Xal SXTOC )vOUTpOU, Xal TV]V 



od^t^ xiXsuaov avaTpipsafrai ; later in a similar prescription . . . 

 xal [/.a)a<7Ta ttjv pa^iv. V. 213 an olive-leaf is also prescribed 

 against the quotidian fever Alex. Trall. I p. 407 sic. cpuXXov ekoda.c, 

 [jletoc xoivou [/.sAavoi; E7riypa^ov xa got a. Xa[i.(3avs Se xal to tpu)^ov 

 TTJc zkodxq Trpo tjIiou avaToXyjs xal TrspiaxTE xspl tov Tpa^ypvov. 



V. 217 ypa[cpito| x[al]? <popou[xÉvv] xa9-apwg; the x is correctly 

 copied by Ken., but there is no space for two letters missing 

 in its stead. If the subject of the following badly corrupted 

 sentence were izldE, or lemg, we might supply a word like 

 cocpsAsi cpopoupivv] xafraptoc. (cp. e. g. Pap. Bibl. Nat. 760 CTTpwaac 

 xa&apicog, 771 cførofrou zafrapsicoc). In the magical design neither 

 Ken. nor Wess. indicate the upper part of a circle above the 

 left edge of the tablet, corresponding to the middle one (where 

 Ken. is right in noting po). We read in these two semi-circles 

 Acp — po, and then we probably have to supplement Sitt] in a 

 similar way to the right. The whole design represents, as we 

 just were told, 'AcppoSiTVj? cjt^t][[v]]. The ctt^Ivj means the 

 column, the receipts originally just filled up one column each 

 (cp. pap. Osl. 1). V. 215/6 xal cpiloug must be corrupt. 



V. 220 Iato etc. xa&ucpsp, the last word means xa9-ucpaip(&v) 

 or xa0-u©aip(£i) — "taking away" each time one letter from the 

 beginning of each of the four magical words indicated. But 

 only Iao;> — aco — co is given in full, the patient suffering from 

 ague has to write out the other words himself 



