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Apollo. Unto all gods and unto all mortal men be it known :

A bason of gold I hereby covenant to deliver Unto him that shall bring back my cattle that are afar off. For a hard thing is it and grievous unto my spirit That I yearn continually for my milch kine with a

fruitless 1 yearning, 5 For the noise of my bullocks, and the sweet breath of

my heifers.

These are all departed ; and for their footsteps do I

make vain search, While they wander secretly far from the crib of the

place of their stalling, And going astray seek pasture : whereas I had never

thought

That any either of the gods or of men that live but for

a day 10 Thus far had presumed against me without shipwreck

on the rock of his presumption. 2 Since therefore this thing befell me, astonied in my distress I have gone forth, yea, I have made search, with the

ceremonies of perfect proclamation To gods and to mortal men, bidding none be ignorant

of the business That mortar in hand, unlike unto myself, I conduct

with my head discovered. 15 I have made visitation of the tribes of the whole host

of the Locrians,

1 Wlsd. xv. 4. 2 Esth. xiii. 2 ; ii Mac. v. 18.

v. 15. Docet Hunt Ρ exhibere [.....]υθιαιγαρεμμανεισκυνηγετω, nisi quod dubium esse judicat θ literam septimo loco positam: indicat idem Ρ$2$ εμμανεισ in έμμανῐσ convertisse. Quae quidem correctio tam manifeste incompleta est et versum in verba Graeca adeo relinquit indivisum ut suspicer signo aliquo, hodie fortasse obliterato, aut primam aut secundam μ literam P$2$ delevisse haereamque incertus an monstratura sit investigatio curiosior, vel quia, excepto έμανῐσ, Ρ sic scripserit, vel quod P$2$ ita correxerit, vel partim ex hac partim ex ilia causa, [.....]υειαιπαρέμανῐσκυνησεπω citra emendationem posse legi.

v. 16. Lacuna in fine versus octo fortasse literarum, quantas scribit P, capax est; sed addit versui notam P$2$, cujus superest nihil nisi finis του et colon; in lacuna igitur stabat olim et hujus notae prior pars.