So MSS. For ϕερετε metri causa Scaliger proposed ϕερετι, an emendation rightly accepted by editors. In the preceding line καιδή conceals a corruption.

Wilamowitz reads:

και μήν παιδωμ ταδε δή.

The change,however, is too violent to recommend itself on palaeographic grounds. In his notatio critica Murray says: Fortasse παισι.