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Pap. CXXII. 



V. 1 cpiÅTpoxaTaSsatjiog 'AfjTpa<([i.)(jjouxou Ao(yoc) S. Wessely's 

 note 1. 1. p. 58. V. 4 probably <lAi))é jaoi, xupis 'Eppj (but v. 14 

 according to the pronunciation xupi 'Eppj). V. 5 TrpocroX 77 ) 011 si5o? 

 or better: [[£i]]c5oc aXxvjv a-TravToov xal 7raa:a)v. V. 6 we have to 

 correct (ovo[xa) into (6v6[j.a)Ta aoi sv oupavw, and accordingly v. 8 

 t«ut(X skriv toc <(6v6[JiaTa Ta) ev Tat? 5' yoviaic t. o. And V. 9 

 Ta? jxoptpa? a? sica sv t. a. etc. V. 13 to £uAov t6 s{3svvivor. 

 oI§a [oe], c Ep[i.v], ti? si xal Tz6\hv sl. V. 17 yjxpiaov [loi is very 

 strange instead of ^apiaai [xoi, and then perhaps 7rp(a£iv) <(7rp6c) 7ravTa 

 xa xaTa ttjv [[yvjv]] oixou[jtivv]v. V. 18 ctuvSoxotcov is quite enigmatic. 

 We expect soraething like avu£a? [xot Ta? ^sTpa? 7Cij ' VTUV (™v) 

 auvTu^ovTtov as Wess. supposed, in the original perhaps written 

 CTuvStxoTwv-. V. 22: The pap. has (Bell) s7uxa'^s<7aT0Y]scjay]. We 

 have to read <^a) sav sTuxaXvj? (or sav s7uxaXv)? auTa), ar6? (= auTo?) 

 ser/] [jtiyiaro? tcov frsoJv cbravTtov etc. V. 24 xal sv u)Spa (Ken.) 

 £wa xal S7u[ysi]a. The papyrus has sxisixia l (Bell). V. 14 xal 

 sa^sv. Either something has fallen out - and then the aorist 

 may refer to some epic tale of some magician or god who at- 

 tained to the said supreme power through the knowledge of 

 the mighty "barbarous names" — or we must correct sct^sv 

 into sqsi?. ttjv ^dcptv, t[t]]v vixtjv, cf. v. 36 j^apiv xal vixtjv. V. 25 

 xal <7capa> 7zy.ni toi?. V. 27 [[tvj]] (i. e. ttjv). V. 28: I do not 

 think that suspysrv]? tpap^axcov is a suitable epithet for Hermes 

 or is on the whole good Greek. The emendation su[ps]Ta 

 cpapjjiaxtov (cp. v. 33) is very near to hand, when you have to do 

 with Hermes-Thoth. suSkxXsxto? Kenyon corrects very appro- 

 priately into suSta^axTo? "placable" with a note of interrogation ; 

 but we may perhaps retain the word, referring it to an adjective 

 suSiaAsxTo? (cp. Epiph. 37 B, C) = zuo\uloq "easy to speak with". 

 V. 31 we must correct aaxvjv into aAxvjv, cp. v. 5. 8o§o<rav = §o5ocrov. 

 V. 31 [X7jv<(1) v] — . V. 38 S7rav, not sav, cp. e. g. pap. Lond. 77, 15. 



1 Cp. pap. Lond. 46, 165 iva [j.oi f,[[v]] umfjxoos TzaLq oaij-uov oupavto? xal 

 cd&spioc <xal aÉpio??> xal s7tt'y£to? xal uTcdysto? xal )(spaaTo[s] xal zvoopo^. 



