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he made an arbitrary change in the Euripidean text. The 
latter seems to be the reason in this case. As th(( 
next line in the Xp. II. ends with kXvgqv, its author appar* 
ently desired to avoid the simularity of endings and so 
changed the order of words in this line. There seems to 
be no reason for preferring with Nauck the reading kXvojv 
Xoycov. 
5. 14. The line is lacking in C. P. and Strabo I. 27 and XV. 687 read 
IlF.pd&v which Elmsley wished to emend to <P and 
Wecklein, who in 16 reads £7trjXQov for sitEXBaoy from 
Strabo XV. 687 (although Str. I. 27 gives etc sXOoor), drops 0 7 
altogether. Wecklein however says nothing of the testi¬ 
mony of the Xp. n. 1588, which also omits 0 ; but preserves 
the participle in verse 16, though changed to napsXQcov. 
6. 20. P. and C. tcoXiv. But Xp. U. 1595 x^ova which Schenkl and 
Wecklein have taken into text, who also place verse 20 
after 22. In the order of lines preserved by our MSS. 
^ the similar endings of 19 & 20, tloXei^ and itoXiv, seem ob¬ 
jectionable. But if the order be changed th°"- ^iection is 
removed. q 
We may also include under this head those cases in which the cita¬ 
tions from the Xp. II. agree with one of the MSS. and not with the other. 
They are as follows: 
1. 75. P. QiaddsvErai. But C. and the Xp. II. 1141 Qiadeverai. 
This statement rests upon Bruhn’s Kritischer Apparat. 
Wilamowitz in his Analecta Euripidea does not note this 
variance of the MSS., so that it seems at least questionable. 
2. 46. P. ovSajuov with which the Xp. II. 1571 agrees. C 
3. 56. P. %vveu7t6povs. C. and the Xp. II. 1603 dvv£ymipov%. All 
editors follow MS. P. 1 
4. 314. P 2 with Stobaeus Plor. 5.15 and 74.8 read prjd aocppovelv. 
P. C. .and the Xp. U. 262 dc&cppovEiv without ju?}. 
In the following passage the thought rather than the word of the Xp. II. 
has furnished Hartung (whom Schoene & Bruhn have followed) with a 
plausible correction of MS. P. 1090-1 ydoovsS || * syovdai certainly 
cannot stand. Kirchhoff, following Heath, reads for pddovEi r/ddora 
and retains s'xovdai. Wecklein prefers to bracket 1091. ^ The three 
® ! In 443 = Xp. II. 1385 and 1928 the MSS. of Euripides read ai, 
dvvrfp7tada<Z\ Xp. II. 1385 ovi dvr- but 1928 ovS t-vr- Such a point is 
entirely beyond the evidence of late MSS., as seems also the case under 
consideration. It is only given to give the benefit of the doubt to the 
Xp. II. A similar question is that of e$ and sii. Cf. 450 — Xp. II. 1655; 
1073 = 662. Likewise -rj or -si in second person singular middle of the 
verb. Cf. 787 = 2277 and 2286; 960 = 1522. So also the i subscriptum in 
the verb dd^oo; cf. 1050= 678: and the accent of dlya; cf. 1084 = 2260. 
