1923] THE GREEK MAGICAL PAPYRI IN THE BRIT. MUS. 13 



-Kwyouyi Totpu acp' (Blass-Debrunner Gramm. § 210, 2) o5 sTUTacrcTo- 

 [xsvoc 7roi^aEi5 oti (Wess.) etc. V. 483 XTiafxaTcov pro xXtfjuxTtov. 

 V. 486 cpulax^vjptov) rovro' ypat|;(ov), just as Extøruj./.a touto" V. 484. 



V. 488 [xsT<(a 8e) £7:txaAécrag — viz. Ta 6v6[J.aTa TauTa t<x 

 yeypapLfAÉva — siasXfrs (and not eventually (ASTÉ7rstTa). 



V. 489 xo<t>fjuaov tov Au^vov "put out the light" (Nicoph. 

 Pand. 7, s. Liddell-Scotfs Diet. cp. axot^vjTov Tup, åxoipjTos "huyyoq) 

 xat xotf/.co stu tptafrou [[tj]] xatvyjs — xatvvjc because everything 

 fresh and new (here the sleeping mat) purifies and sanctifies. 



V. 492 SC. zu pta 'lat, yj auvEYtopvjcysv 6 'Ayafroc Satfjuov jjaoileveiv 

 ev tu ixÉXavt, Isis is the queen of the night, enthroned so to speak 

 by the Agathos Daimon. Then the formula continues thus : 

 to (ovojud) oov kov: kov lov: etc. V. 496 Yjx[xapt: v£[}outoc: are 

 of course abbreviations for |axpa[jta]Yjx|./,api ve|3ouToc7[ouaA7]'9-|. V. 

 501 and 504 f/.qt used instead of \xz. 



V. 506 xat (tj) svECTTtoaa topa, as in the following tj EvsciTcocra 

 yj[xÉpa. V. 518 7rap£GTco<^v) aot Tatc Sucrl [iaaE(7tv Zxta{h xat MavTco ?? 

 But I do not understand the whole drift of the preceding sen- 

 tence nor its conexion with the following sentence, that "the four 

 fundaments of the universe were moved". V. 523 sxjBaAs xaTa£ac 

 "break the egg and throw it away", consequently the 7rsptxaixatpsiv 

 previously mentioned must only mean lustrare in the sense of 

 circumferre (Verg.). V. 524 xat slatac xXaSou? - - xat corrupt 

 for E(7T£cpavco[jt£vo$? The following words (sTiraips Se — ) clearly 

 open a new sentence. V. 527 ÅizoTd^xq ( = a7ro)i^ag) pocpvjcrov (se. 

 to wov) "peel off the scale. and swallow it", cp. Arist. av. 673 

 a7roA£7T£tv o)G7zzp (hov (not as Wess. = onzixXzv\)<xc\). V. 537 xa[t] 

 ysvsaiTco to (SsTva) 7rp(ay;j.a) l(v) cop(a), ordinarily lv topa means 

 "in due time", but here probably "at once", auvzyåg or -apauTa 

 (Ken., who read the three letters correctly: "apparently Trpo 

 TTÉvTs wpwv". for which explanation I see no reason ; Wess. has 

 correctly to Sstva 7rpay(jta, but has read the next two letters 

 as £ cp). 



V. 540 The title of the divination by use of a lamp may 

 have been AvyvofxavxsTov, written Au^vo^avTtav : stov was at that 

 time in slovenly speech simply pronounced tav ; both forms — 

 A'j/vo|j.avT£ta and Au^vo[jtavT£tov — may have existed side by side, 

 cp. pap. Bibl. Nat. 3209 otAO|/.avTsTov, but 3243 tvjv cptAo^avTstav 

 (v. Mayser, Gramm. p. 61 : ayyslav ti — ayysfov ti in the middle 

 of the first century A. D.), cp. xpt{rof/.avTs?ov, KAsupofxavTsTov, 



