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 meaning, 'having made certain persons acquainted with him,' 'having caused them to recognise him.' But Vahlen (Herm. Bemerk. 1898) has, if I am not mistaken, established beyond question this rare and idiomatic use of the verb by a reference to Diodorus Siculus iv. 59. 6, and by the corresponding use of in Plut. Vit. Thes. ch. xii.

xix. 3. 1456b 8. For of the MSS. I now read . (Previously I had accepted Tyrwhitt's correction .) This conjecture was first made by Spengel, and strong arguments in its favour have recently been urged by V. Wróbel in a pamphlet in which this passage is discussed (Leopoli, 1900).

xxv. 6. 1458b 12. For I now read with Spengel. (So also Bywater.) Is it possible that in xxvi. 6. 1462b 7 we should similarly read codd.), 'a fair standard of length'?

In xiv. 8-9. 1454 a 2-4 a much vexed question is, I am disposed to think, cleared up by a simple alteration proposed by Neidhardt, who in a 2 reads for, and in a 4 for . This change, however, I have not introduced into the text.

The Arabic version once more throws interesting light on a disputed reading. In xvii. 2 instead of is a conjecture supported by one manuscript. In confirmation of this reading, which has always seemed to me correct, I extract the following note by Professor Margoliouth (Class.