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at the beginning). The sun eat is sometimes represented eating 

 up the serpent. Therefore the eat, i. e. its tail, is here used 

 as an apotropaeic crown in the sun magic. After oupav perhaps 

 £7rt[>talÉ(ja?J v])aov — the last sign does not seem to be an e, 

 but rather the symbol of the sun, also used at the end of the 

 previous line. V. 857: the amulet is the cat's tail "and the 

 magic characters". I do not understand the following words, 

 though clear in the pap.; we expect to hear of the material on 

 which the characters are to be written. 



V. 863 Y] fiifi\oq 7j§£ auTTj [oi5s w<;?] '/.cd §t,a tcov (= <bv) 

 vjupéO-vj ev 'A. ty] frsa [l. 'A. etc. "the book itself knows how 

 and by whom it was found for the almighty Aphrodite"? 

 V. 865 scmv 8s yj xocTaaxsuY] tyjs xupiag (cts^vtjs) outo) ysivo[/.sv7j[[c]]. 

 V. 873 x?~" a "'] T£ a ^' r7 ) v = XP^ Gtx ' 1 T£ a ^' I "^ v (cf- v. 878 7rpo^piaa[jt.£vo?). 

 This magic by means of the moon goddess presupposes that you 

 know both the y] xoctoc 7ravT(ov te^styj (v. 872), the asXyjviaxov 

 ^pta[jia (v. 874) and the cts^yjviocxov sTuihjpc (v. 876); of the first 

 and the last procedure we are informed in the papyrus of the 

 Bibl. Nat. in Paris. V. 877 Su&xcov to(v) u7cox£if/.svov <Aoyov?) 

 £Q7j; 6v£ipo7ro[X7r^fj£!.g xaTa§Y](T£t5 "at once you will be able to 

 send away dreams and to bind fast". V. 878 tzoizi yap fxsy. upoq 

 (ctsXyjvyjv) <•/]) xXyjais. "If you make use of the anointment be- 

 forehand, then you are sure to have good luck" (s7utsu£y]). 

 V. 886 xi),£'j(c70v) dcyyé^o) <(crou)>. V. 891 Xsys 5sa7T(ra(>u3s)' nrsppov 

 {tov) ayys^ov aou <(6ti) s£opxi£æ ^crs). V. 894 7ipo[[a]]x<X'9 , Yjyouf/.svov. 

 V. 907 a^Tj? [§]a[xa(j7j5 as Wess. supplied the lacuna. V. 911 

 8uvacr9-7], i. e. Suvaafrou. V. 915: we have to understand tyjv -9-siocv 

 oucriav, the magical figure made of the "divine" (<9-eiov "sulfur") 

 material mentioned above v. 867 sqq. V. 920 vi(xyjtlx6v) Wess. 

 Probably this vixtjtmcov frau^aaTov, signed with the following 

 symbol (the Hermes-rod, the emblem of the way god is able to 

 accelerate the pace of the wearer), is to be carried on the sandal 

 itself: o £/[c] sv Tofg rceZzikoic, (cp. the Roman lunula). I do not 

 think it necessary to supply more than s')(js] (Wess. supplies 

 syjsi], Ken. å/Jotc]). Then a new sentence begins: Xa^oiv As—fåa 

 etc: now having fixed the tablet on your sandal, you will be 

 aware of the effect, when you ride (drive) or sail (7repiTi9-sc78-ai 

 in med.). V. 922 tvIoico <y)> 'Itctzco, viz. rcspi-froi» tb (ote?) (3ouXst. 

 The datives tzlowi yj ixtcw belong to ttoieiv (as e. g. in the N. T. 

 TiroiELv tivi). opa ti ttoieT viz. the inscribed tablet. V. 926 aXko, 



