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V. 359 6vsip(aiT7]Toc). V. 364 A(sys) (s7TTaxic) tov 67toxsi(|jisvov) 

 Ao(yov) as Kenyon has read (and Wessely corrected). V. 365 

 outw<(c) and 6 (o-)io>v, v. supra. V. 368 ovo[xa aoi . . . , the 

 name has dropped out (Wess.). V. 369 /p7][j.aTiaaT£ |/.oi 7repl 

 Jjv p[ouAo|[i.(oa) 7rp(ay[jLaTcov), the last word has been omitted by 

 the scribe because of the likeness to the following ~p(o$). V. 368 

 ^ihfrto [x] oi (as Ken. has read), no doubt xoi(voé). The spell for 

 oracular dreams is addressed to two "Lords of the Gods", viz. 

 Seth and Chreps; the latter name is surprising. V. 370 Atjcttcdv; 

 the same blunder CXII, but we need not supply s7u8po[i.7jv, as 

 Wessely proposed. The magic formula is directed "against 

 every wild beast and water beast and robbers". You bind up 

 the edge of your mantle, where the demon ordinarily seeks shelter, 

 and you speak the formula. V. 374 <(sic> is very likely to have 

 dropped out before oVrpaxov, cp. e. g. pap. Bibl. Nat. 2218 sic 

 to oaTpaxov a7ro fraAaa-avjc ypacps. The scribe ought to have put 

 the vertical line above the whole complex locwa. V. 376 <Wi?> 

 aypuTT vqcrsi. 



V. 376 aAAo (viz. aypuTrvvjTixov)' sAAu^viov Aa(3(tov) etc. V. 377 

 auTov : either it is a scribal blunder — the formula is of course 

 addressed to the lamp, not to the lamp-wick (to the Au^voc, not 

 to the iWiijyiov or -frpuocAAic) — or we have to supply it thus 

 xp6c auTov <(tov Au^vov) As(ye). V. 379 the papyrus has [xsAi(3ou 

 [isXi^au, as Wess. has copied. But then Ken. is right in copying 

 [xsWpau (3au — the word following no doubt is [åy] Qvnvehai. 

 Then the papyrus runs thus (cp. Preisendanz in his ingenious 

 restoration of the Knes, Wien. Stud. XL, 5): 



380 tocBs yp-a(A(A<xTa sic t6 



lAAu^viofv ^]p(acps) o XIllIT/n xai oucriaafac Sitojxs 



TOV ETTCCVCO Ao(yOv). 7701SI Bo Xai <jl§7]pOU 7r[sTaX]oV, 



6 Ao(yoc)' ^uyvjTi, criSvjpe, xai jicov ysvou etc. 



The o, after ypacps: ovojjia or (better) £[jxu]p[vo[jiAavi]. 8ioo]xs 

 already Wess. correctly supplied, ouaia[c7ac] Kroll Philol. LIV 563, 

 but <Luyv]Ti is = <\>6jv\%-i, as Ken. remarks in his Index of Words ; 

 aioVjpou 7r[ÉTaX]ov already was proposed by Preisendanz 1. 1. 



V. 385 -o(i7][j.a), as the word was interpreted by Kenyon, is 

 more than -rpa^ic, the magical operation, as woisT often in a 

 pregnant sense means "works with success against" or ,,to such 



