19231 the GREEK MAGICAL papyri in the BRIT. MUS. 
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V. 359 6v£Lp(aiT'/]T6 ;). V. 364 a(£Y£) (£7rTax!.c) tov ’j7:ox£l([x£vov) 
ao(Yov) as Kenyon has reacl (and Wessely corrected). V. 365 
ouTco<(c) and 6 (a)»'cov, v. supra. V. 368 6yo\xx croi . . . , the 
name has dropped out (Wess.). V. 369 )(_p'/][jLaTL(7aT£ [xoi 7:£pl 
cov p|ouXo|pt,(aL) 7i:p(aY[jLaT(i)v), the last word has been omitted by 
the scribe because of the likeness to the following V. 368 
;(_i>£{>co [x|oi (as Ken. has .read), no doubt x,odva). The spell for 
oracular dreams is addressed to two “Lords of the Gods”, viz. 
Seth and Chreps; the latter name is surprising. V. 370 A^aTcov; 
the same blunder CXII, but we need not supply éTTiSpopL-i^v, as 
Wessely proposed. The magic formula is directed “against 
every wild beast and water beast and robbers”. You bind up 
the edge of your mantle, where the demon ordinarily seeks shelter, 
and you speak the formula. V. 374 <£lc) is very likely to have 
dropped out before ocjTpaxov, cp. e. g. pap. Bibl. Nat. 2218 hg 
'70 orjTpaxov aTTo YP^?^- The scribe ought to have put 
the vertical line above the whole complex tawa. V. 376 <xal?) 
V. 376 aA).o (viz. aYpi>7rv'/]TLx6v)' iWh/yiov X(x^(h>v) etc. V. 377 
aijTov: either it is a scribal blunder — the formula is of course 
addressed to the lamp, not to the lamp-wick (to the not 
to the fklh/yiov or HpuockAig) — or we have to supply it thus 
7 :p6g auTov <(t6v }.u;)(_vov) V. 379 the papyrus has p.£)apou 
[A£Ai[ia'j, as Wess. has copied. But then Ken. is right in copying 
p.£At/Pau pau — the word following no doubt is [åyjoimvekco. 
Then the papyrus runs thus (cp. Preisendanz in his ingenious 
restoration of the lines, Wien. Stud. XL, 5): 
380 Ta3£ 
£AAiJYvio[v Y]p(acp£) 0 XIlllT/n */.al ourri,aa[ag §i1cl)]x£ 
TOV £7:avoL) )v.6(yov). tvolzT Så xocl 7:|£TaX]ov, 
6 a6(yoc)' ^uYVjTi, crr'S7]pé-, /tal yzvou etc. 
The 0 , after ypckcpz: ovo[i.a or (better) ^[[Au]p[vo[i.£).avil. Sloj|'/w£ 
already Wess. correctly supplied, ou(7ta|c)ag| Kroll Philol. LIV 563, 
but tboYr^TL is = Ken. remarks in his Index of Words; 
T!,S'/jpo’j 7i:[£TaX|ov already was proposed by Preisendanz 1. 1. 
V. 385 To(P/j[Aa), as the word was interpreted by Kenyon, is 
more than Tpa^ig, the magical operation, as 7roL£L often in a 
pregnant sense means “works with success against” or ,,to such 
