² Jebb takes as referring to all the suppliants. It will be seen later that I cannot share this view.

¹ solitarium is not in itself difficult with etc., and one does not have to ‘supply’ anything mentally. This idea of a mental supplement comes from too rigid an interpretation of which in the circumstances I have mentioned is indistinguishable from in sense.

² See Denniston, , The Greek Particles, ed. 2 (1954). P. 381.Google Scholar

³ It is perhaps significant that Denniston does not list our present passage as an example.

⁴ Note also the strong antithesis suggested by

⁵ I am not the first to have wished to read . Wecklein suggested paraphrasing ceteri ex ordine lecti deorum sacerdotes. Whether this is palaeographically superior to I would not like to say, but I reject it because it takes into the phrase.

¹ It should perhaps be noted that ‘in well-written literary [my italics] papyri abbreviations are rare: in cursively written papyri of all classes they are not uncommon’ (Maunde-Thompson, , Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography [1912], p. 78).Google Scholar

² Maunde-Thompson, , op. cit., pp. 81 and 83.Google Scholar

³ I am indebted to Professor J. H. Bishop for this parallel.

⁴ See I.G. i². 91/92 and Tod, , Greek Historical Inscriptions, ed. 2, i, no. 51.Google Scholar

⁵ C.R. N.s. ii (1952), 2–4.Google Scholar