^{page 140 note 1} The tourth line (‘ Qua…figuram’), which Dr. Magnus ascribes to ε is not in the manuscript. (Dr. Gilson; the Keeper of the MSS., has very kindly verified the point, and endorses my report.)

^{page 140 note 2} Or, according to others, Tellus and Ladon: see Munro and Aetna, line 6, and the works there cited.

^{page 140 note 3} Lines 577 to 578 might be thought to imply that the father had not intervened, Earth being apparently the agent.

^{page 140 note 4} But cf. 13. 180 (q.v), Et ldquo;fer opem, Galatea mihi, mihi ferte, parents.”

^{page 141 note 1} Since this was writtem, I notice that Merkel in teh Preface to his second edition also cites these two passages from Aeschylus. He keeps the half-line which others reject; but his text of the whole is not altogether satisfactory.

^{page 141 note 1} If in some ‘forbear’ of theirs line 544 began with fessa (see 5. 618), not victa, the omission might easily have occurred.

^{page 141 note 2} To the two examples in Ellis (Anecdot. Oxon. Class. Ser. I. 5, anni 1885) at 2 823 and 3, 172, add another, viz 2 755, which is not ‘omitted’ but placed before 754 :—a total of three only in some two thousand lines and more.

^{page 141 note 3} = the symbol for ldquo;equals.”

^{page 141 note 4} vel ‘dehiscas!’