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Brambs reject 8 s from the text but wrongly. We have simply caught 
him napping here and have an insight into his method of work. 
1570 = B. 45 rj [Eur. 05 ] Qeopaxsl rh Kara. 6 s 6tcov8c6v r 7 onto [Eur. 
uar 1 hfis uai 67 tovdoov a 7 to.] Here Qsojuaxsi was left in C., M., V. and 
the other resolved foot removed. It may be that this is to be explained 
by synizesis, as in A., B. it appears written Qvjuaxsi. 
2219 = B. 668 OsXoo S' aKov6ai, itorspd 601 itapPV6ia. This is the 
reading of all the MSS. except A. (7 torsp’ 035 7 tapp.) and V. (7 toorspov 
7 tapp.), which are evidently attempts to remove the objectionable foot. 
1048 = B. 1244. This has been discussed on p. 374. It seems most pro¬ 
bable that he found in his Euripides jusysQo 5 . 
We have then shown how the author of the Xp. II., when off his guard, 
followed his MS. of the Bacchae so closely, that he has introduced re¬ 
solved feet in several instances, and also that the writer al¬ 
lowed himself the liberty to change a line to remove the objectionable 
tribrach. The conclusion must be drawn, that for Euripidean lines con¬ 
taining resolved feet the Xp. II. offers in all but a very few instances 
testimony of a very insignificant value. We have also demonstrated how 
slavishly in several instances he has followed his model to the sacrifice 
of grammatical and orthographical accuracy in his own composition. 
We feel, therefore, justified in affirming, that, inasmuch as in 48 cases he 
has preserved readings vastly inferior to those of our own MSS., cases in 
which a change is scarcely to be justified, the writer of the Xp. II. made 
use of a MS. of the Bacchae that contained a very corrupted text of that 
play. I cannot in view of facts here brought together agree with Doering 
that the citations from the Bacchae in the Xp. II. have a.high value for 
the text criticism of that play. Nor can'I give assent to his statement, 
that the Euripidean MS. used by this writer should be placed for its ex¬ 
cellence midway between the two classes of the Euripidean MSS. dis¬ 
tinguished by Kirchhoff. The result of the present investigation has been 
to assign to a class much inferior to the existing MSS., which belong to 
Kirchhoff’s second class, the MS. of the Bacchae that the author of the 
Xp. II. has used. Probably a careful investigation of the subject through 
the other plays of Euripides plundered by this ignorant writer would re¬ 
veal the same state of affairs there also. 
