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to dvddsfisia?,, a reading adopted by all. The Xp. 77 
reads ddsfisias, which gives the right sense but is unmet - 
rical. 
3. 669 = Xp. 77. 2220. raKslBev, corrected by Branck to rd ksiQsv, 
due to the incorrect division into words. 
4. 844 = Xp. 77.1287. P. svrfpsxss corrected by Canter to s-orpsitsi. 
The Xp. 77. has 7 tavsv7tps7tsy 
5. 854 — Xp. 77. 2311. ocpXsiv , connected to ocpXslLv for Euripides. 
Cf. L. and S. sub voce. 
6. 955 = Xp. 77. 1506. P. upvp>fjvai. Xp. 77. xpv(3?/vai. Musurus 
corrected to upv^rjvai for metrical reasons. 
7. 1099 = Xp. 77. 669 dXXoi, corrected by Brodaeus to dXXai. 
8 . 1152 = Xp. 77. 1147 xPVI La ‘ But Orion, Anth. IV. 55, reads urpya, 
which all editors adopt. 
9. 1162 -= Xp. 77. 1051. P. yovov. Xp. 77. Qprjvov. Canter changed 
to yoov. It is possible that the Xp. 77. may be right here. 
10. 1355 = Xp. 77. 1670. P. an 8s poi rd Qsdqxxrov. Xp. 77. sdri ydp 
to Oadcparov. It seems likely that the author of the 
Xp. 77. found in our Euripidean MS. what our MS. now 
contains, but changed to obtain a verb and to avoid the 
tribrach. Haupt suggested povdri, which all the editors 
have adopted. 
11. 1368 = Xp. 77. 1706. Ttcirpcpa, changed by Elmsley to Ttarpia metri 
causa. 
It remains now to sum up our discussion of the value of the citations 
from Euripides found in the Xp. 77. If we have correctly classified the 
citations the conclusion is evident. In 14 instances the Xp. 77. has fur¬ 
nished us the means of correcting our MSS., of which three instances 
only are from that portion of the play contained in the two MSS. The 
Xp. 77. has not preserved the exact form of the word in all cases, nor have 
all, or even the best MSS. of the Xp. 77. preserved the correct reading in 
every case. The benefit of the doubt has been given the Xp. 77., so that 
cases 13 and 14 have here been included, and case 11, although testified 
toby only one MS., and that not the best one. In our second list are to be 
found 6 cases in which the excellence of the readings of the Xp. 77. is by 
no means so clear as to recommend their adoption to all the editors of 
the Bacchee. In four cases the Xp. 77. stands in agreement with one MS. 
and not the other, in two of which there may be serious doubt, if the 
reading of the Xp. 77. is preferable. However, to be perfectly fair and 
just to the Xp. 77., these cases may be all enumerated in its favor, and the 
sum total is 24, over against which should be placed the 48 + 22=70 cases 
in which the author of the Xp. 77. has without any doubt and for no good 
reason changed the reading of the Euripidean text, or found a very 
corrupt form of the Euripidean text in his MS. In the following it will 
