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S. EITREM. 
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Za^aojO' etc. 
a^aGjO- 
^acolt 
a co 3 
OJlt 
0- 
I do not agree with Preisendanz, Wien. Stud. 40 (1919), 115 
in taking ywai>i) 9 £p to mean xaituTrspitsv “downwards from above” 
and every time repeating the whole line, only taking one letter 
away from the beginning at every new start; y.ahu^sp = zxiloTrsp 
is without parallel. V. 230 å[i.[xajy]g should be corrected into 
“blot out” (syyovog = åV.yovog is different, cp. Mayser, 
Gramm. p. 228 note). V. 232 Wessely’s (and Wilcken’s) reading 
is correct. V. 248: the pap. has acpouaTOjfraay-x . . ., 
probably we have to take a^socjTcoaag as one word (acpsucrTo? 
elsewhere gives Polyb. III 111,8, Lobeck Phryn. 
595 sq.; a^sucTTouv as D.subspouv sim.). y.a|Acoc|, as Wessely 
read, offers at least a fitting supplement. But then in my opinion 
the pap. shows a /, not a / over the line. How Ken. can find 
the headless figure prescribed above at the end of Pap. 122, 1 
cannot discover. This latter figure has both head and sword. 
V. 260 sqq. contain a charm against “the rising of the 
wonib”. The womb, [xr^Tpa, reminds the magician of all y£vv'/jcng 
and all ysvsaig, also of the origin of the world. Perhaps we 
have at the beginning to supplement: é^opxi^co as, iM'/jTpa[[v]l or 
é ^ opyJ^co GZ , “(vrjv) MviTpav, <^y.aTa tou ovojxaTog tou [jLsyaAoo oliOu 
Tou) ywaTaavafiévTog ztzI Tvjg apucrcrou sim; Wessely tried y-ava 
TOU (xaTa)aTail£VToc. The second y.xTa- may have pulled out 
the first xxTx and what follows. V. 261 tov xTcoavTa <(7ravTa) 
ayysAov cov TpcoTog etc., cp. e. g. Pap. Bibl. Nat. 1708 sq.: opyJ^oj 
yvjv xal oupavov xal cpojc xal axoToc xxl tov TuavTa XTicravTa B'(£o)v 
[xéyav Sapoucnv. Though TdcvTa is here the neuter plural, still 
such doxologic phrases as ib. V. 1040 xtitxc Traaav xal 
y£V£a-t,v and ib. V. 1202 xTcoag il£ou^ xal apy^ayyéAouc xal 3£xavou^ 
clearly show how easily the same thought may have formed the 
phrase at our place. But xxTa tou etc. above and then with the 
accusative tov xTicravTa etc. form a bad anacolouth (thus Wessely). 
The whole construction is as follows: åEopxl^oj az, MrjTpa, 
. . . aTOxaTacTTahfjVaL . . . [X'/j3£ xAiOrjvat. . . . [X'/]3£ d7ro5£lQ7]5 . . , 
