D uring a visit to England in December 1922 I had an oppor- 
tunity of looking through some of the Greek magical 
papyri at the British Museum. I had not sufficient time to 
inspect No. XLVI, but I perused the other papyri of this class 
(published by F. G. Kenyon in the Ist volume of the “Greek 
Papyri in the British Museum—Catalogue”), assisted on all diffi- 
cult points by the invaluable keen-sightedness and erudition of 
Mr. H. I. Bell, who confirmed or corrected several of my proposals 
as to the text, and in some obscure places succeeded in 
detecting the true readings of the original. I hope that in this 
respect the following remarks do not deviate from the old rule: 
suum cuique. 
Since my return home I have made use of the numerous 
corrections of Prof. U. Wilcken, published in the Gott. gel. 
Anz. 1894, 728 sqq. 
Pap. CXXI. 
Recto. 
V. 175 xpa[7.[jLa = xpafxa »mixed wine«, cp. Mayser, Gramm. 
der gr. Pap. p. 218/9 ('/.p6[x|x'jov = xp6[xuov sim.). The effect is 
that the old woman neither talks nor drinks too much, taking 
this sort of resinous wine. Moreover (ypauv) [xvjToc no doubt re- 
presents which is either an error in writing (most probably) 
or a peculiarity of pronunciation (cp. Mayser, Gramm. p. 60 above). 
V. 170 probably op.oiov \rr^k(p ysvérrhyx, cp. v. 182, where 
Ken. takes olvov to be a blunder for oivw — in the original ov 
and 03 may easily have been confused. 
V. 173 cpaysi = cpays, cp. Mayser, Gramm. p. 73 § 11 (citing 
Goodspeed, Pap. Chic. 9,9 oyiaivsL uyiaLvs). 
V. 178 sqq. The recipe probably deals with the eyes, as is 
shown by 'zrp ;x'jp[!!^E]c7i)aL. The x6[xt, is mostly used 
in medicaments for the eyes, cp. Alex. Trall. 1. II. 
V. 179 XXL [[XcL^xlg? The lacuna is better filled with five 
letters than four. 
