^{page 212 note 2} His apparatus includes full collations for considerable portions of the play even of Δ, Vb1, M9, E2, which are direct copies of extant MSS.

^{page 213 note 1} At 611 κα⋯τοι ⋯στ⋯ν γε is conceivably right ; but Elmsley's κα⋯ τοὐστ⋯ν γε and Blaydes's κα⋯τοὐστ⋯ν γε leave little to Mr. Elliott, and even to that little Mr. Starkie has a prior claim.

^{page 214 note 1} Naíς at Plut. 179 is an emendation.

^{page 214 note 2} The question is in certain cases complicated by a doubt as to how Aristophanes represented the sounds ; but speculation on this head does not seem very profitable in the present state of our knowledge. On p. 163 Mr. Elliott says Aristophanes' autograph ‘would probably have been in the Ionic alphabet’; on the next page he seems to imply that it was in the Attic.