The Pseudo-Gregorian Drama Christus Patiens. 377 
place in 168 = B. 1242 where yap has been dropped to obtain a twelve 
syllabled verse: uaXei <piXovs e£$ Saira • juaxdpios ei for juatia pi os yap 
si, in which the first a and the i of paxdpioi receive the accent, although 
short in quantity. Again 1589 = B. 15. Here re has been dropped, 
thus Bdxrpia [re] reiyp rr/v re dvdyeijiior x®ova, where i of Bdxrpia 
receives the accent. 
A second way to avoid the tribrach was to combine with the omission 
or elision of a syllable transposition. Thus 2007 = B. 692. dW aitn- 
fdaXovdai rov vitvov opfidroDv from ai §' ocrcofiaXovdai OaXepdv 
ojujudrGov vrfvor. Here are three violations of the rules for quantity, in 
the two u 7 s of cxTtoflaXovdai and the v of vitvov. In 1099 the remarkable 
elision of Doric a has been noted on p. 376. In 1592 = B. 17, the Xp. 77. 
reads 7 tddav r> \'Adiav nrX. for 1 'Adiav re nddav nrX. 
Then again a change of words could be made. Thus 2223 — B. 671 
rd r ; oqvQvjuov uai ro Xiav pppevov for uai rov^vQvpov uai ro fiadiXixdv 
Xiav, where i of Xiav is lengthened. And 1566 = B. 49. ev diaQeis 
rdvQevd , } avadrrjdeis updroi for ravQevde Qejnevo 5 ev, jueradrpdoo 
7 to8a. An interesting example is 1054 = B. 1260 et eoo 5 reXov^ for 
el de dux reXov$. 
These cases will suffice for illustration. The remainder are: 569 — B. 
285; 1310 = B. 1280; 1536 and 1543=B. 54; 1564 = B. 22; 1570 — B. 45; 
1583 =JB. 8 ; 1590 ==B. 16; 1593 = B. 18; 1603 = B. 56; 1683 = B. 1335; 
1754 = B. 1339; 2075 = B. 447; 2519 = B. 60; 2560 = B. 1345. In most of 
these cases short vowels have been lengthened to receive the accent' 
Adaptation of lines written in other metres are full of the same sort of 
errors. Of. 653 = B. 1041; 1052 = B. 1163; 1706 = B. 1368. . 
Further when the author of the Xp. IT. found it necessary for his 
theme to change the Euripidian text, he avoided the use of a resolved 
foot, where the Euripidean equivalent has such. The following are 
the instances: 169 = B. 1243; 666 = B. 1095; 668 = B. 1097; 1152 = B. 181; 
1153 = B. 183; 1156 = B. 186; 1161 = B. 194; 1525 = B. 963; 1552 = B. 31; 
1553 = B. 29; 1602 = B. 55; 1668 = B. 492; 1760 = B. 1332; 1790= B. 362; 
1811 = B. 733; 1835 = B. 684; 2074 = B. 446; 2280= B. 790; 2520 =B. 61. 
In many of these cases a short a is lengthened under the influence of 
the accent. 
But to return to our point. In four instances the author of the Xp. II. 
has retained unwittingly, it would seem, a resolved foot, indicating how 
carefully he followed his Euripidean MS. When off his guard he fol¬ 
lowed his model and allowed a line to him metrically objectionable to 
creep in in its exact form. When he has tried to remove the source of 
objection he has betrayed himself by his absolute ignorance and disre¬ 
gard of the laws of quantity. The instances referred to are as follows: 
1585 = B. 10. Here the MSS. C., M., A., B. read with Euripides cdvod de 
xp id iv [Eur. Kadjuov] afiucrov rj [Eur. d' 5 ] nedov rode . Both Dubner and 
