368 
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts and Letters . 
Found in P. alone -= 
771 — 2264 
794 1 = 2268 
795 =2269 
838 = 1930 
1078 =2256 
1112 =1431 
1152 2 = 1147 
1261 3 = 1055 
1361 = 1696 
III. So far we have made no distinction between the MS. of Eur. 
used by the author of the Xp. 77 and the existing MSS. of the Bacchse, 
It is in the third class of citations that we shall have occasion to see of 
how much value the citations from Euripides found in the Xp. n. are. 
This class includes all those verses in which no particular reason seems 
to exist to justify a change, and yet, which show some variation from the 
MS. readings of the Bacchge. Here three sub-divisions are to be distin¬ 
guished. A. those cases in which the Xp. II. presents a reading so plainly 
superior to our MSS. reading that it has been adopted by Kirchhoff and 
all who have followed him: B. those cases in which the Xp. 17, offers a 
reading which has appeared to some of the editors of Euripides worthy 
of adoption or in which the readings presented by the Xp. 77. seem at 
least equally good with those of the MSS.: C. those cases in which the 
Xp. 77. presents a corrupt reading, although there is no apparent reason 
to justify the corruption. 
A. The verses in which the readings of the Xp. 77. have been adopted 
by all the editors of Euripides in preference to those of our Euripidean 
MSS. are the following: 
1. 55. C. & P. \i7tov6a, Xntovdai C 2 as also Xp. 77. 1602, Et. M. 453 C., 
while Strabo, 469, testifies at least to the ending — ai. 
[Here as in a number of other cases the testimony of the 
Xp. 77. is entirely ignored by Kirchhoff.] 
2. 655. P. & C. read docpds doqidS si. But the Xp. II. 1529, docpd 5 do<pd$ 
dv. 
3. 694. P. & C. read itapBsvoi re xd^vysZ. The Xp. 77. on the other 
hand has napBsroi r' ! sr'> dXvysZ which all have adopted. 
Usener’s conjecture, (Rh. Mus. XXIII. 160) dv^oi rs 
*MSS. V. and B. of the Xp. 77. avrdv. 
2 MS. P. and the Xp. II. read jpppn. Orion, Anth. 4, p. 55, reads xrf/jua , 
which all the editors have adopted. (Nauck adopts without any note of 
the change!) Here again, if the MS. of Euripides is wrong, the Xp. 77. is 
wrong with it, and the corruption is to be traced to the archetype of P. 
and the Euripidean MS. of the Xp. 77. 
3 Bruhn proposes for usvsir^ ysvoXT'’ against the combined testimony 
of P. and the Xp. 77. 
