^{page 11 note 1} Christ is hardly consistent, as he seems elsewhere to hold, l.c. p. 839₄, that the shorter collection contained but nine plays.

^{page 11 note 2} Cleef's, Van interesting suggestion (Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy, viii, pp. 363 ff.Google Scholar) that the author of the Christus Patiens employed a manuscript—inferior to those of Kirchhoff's second class—containing only these plays of Euripides, if accepted, does not necessarily make for Wilamowitz's contention. But if such a selection of plays as Van Cleef supposes existed in Byzantine times, it is surprisiug that none of all the extant manuscripts shows a trace of it.

^{page 12 note 1} So Christ, Gesch. d. griech. Litteratur ³, p. 839₄. Wilamowitz oddly enough quotes this notice from Suidas in both his Anal. Eurip. p. 134 and his Herakles i. p. 137₁₅₂, but is unable to conjecture what these fifteen plays were: ‘ob er von jedem 5 nahm oder wie er sonst verteilte, lässt sich nicht sagen.’