The Pseudo-Gregorian Drama Christus Patiens. 
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the latter half of the play, preserved in a single MS. of the 14th century, 
there would seem to be good opportunity in this play for determining the 
value of the citations as found in the Xp. II. for the text of the Bacchse. 
It must first be remarked that, as the subject of the cento did not 
often allow its author to quote directly without change from his chosen 
model, we expect to find many variations from Euripides occasioned by 
this fact, and do not expect to find many lines to be taken verbatim 
Bearing this in mind three classes of citations as made by the author of 
the Xp. II. may be distinguished. 
I. Those verses in which one or more words have been necessarily 
•changed to bring into harmony with the theme the heathen conceptions 
of Euripides. This class also includes all those verses in which by 
reason of the context some change has been made. The verses in this 
class must necessarily constitute the great majority of all the verses 
quoted and we add here the list that it may be of service to any who 
may desire to investigate the question further. 1 2 
1 = Xp. n. 1573 (?) 29 = 1553 
2 = 1545 (?) 30 ~ 1555 
4 = 1546,1533,1535 sq., 31 = 1552 (?) 
1543, 1758 sq., 40 = 1568 
2395,2405,2574 * 47 = 1574,1564 
60 =r 2519 
61 = 2520 
69 = 1608 
71 = 1607 
72 sq. = 1139 
7 
= 1582 
48 
= 1565 
73 sq. = 1140 
10 
= 1585 
50 
= 1575 
75 sqq. = 1141 
11 
= 1586 
51 
= 1576 
80 sqq. = 1142. 
21 
= 1563 3 
52 
= 1577,1536, 1543 
120 = 1599 
26 
= 1547 
53 
= 1512, 2374 
179 = 1149 
27 
= 1550 
54 
= 1536,1543 
180 = 1150 
28 
= 1551 
58 
= 1606,1124 
181 = 1152 
1 The first and only complete list of quoted verses that exists is to be 
found in the preface of Brambs’ edition in the Teubner series, p. 8 sqq. 
The list of verses quoted from the Bacchse (p. 15 sqq.) is almost complete. 
I have added but two further citations. In a considerable number of in¬ 
stances the parallelism as there referred to is so very remote as to be of 
no value for our investigation, and to leave great doubt in the mind if 
the verse is really modeled after that of Euripides. 
2 When more than one verse of the Xp. II. is cited as a parallel of a 
verse from the Bacchae, the one that stands first is the real corres¬ 
ponding verse, the others may be neglected, as corresponding only 
vaguely with the given line. 
3 The proposal to read here the future participles x°P e v6gdv xai nava- 
drjjdGov from the evidence of the Xp. II. is neither consonant with the 
context, nor demanded by the Xp. II. For it is not true that the tense 
has never been changed in the Xp. II. Such a change occurs in 
280 = 571; 1120 = 2564; 1128 = 1162; 1237 = 163; 713 = 2218; 213 = 1561; 
777 = 2245; 955 = 1506; 1077 = 2254; 1223 = 2202. 
