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 2 64 Journal of Philology. Note on p. 252. While these pages were passing through the press, my attention was called to a passage in the Varronianus (p. 52, 2nd Edit.), which I take some shame to myself for having overlooked. On reperusing it, how- ever, I see no reason for modifying or retracting anything that has been advanced in the text on the God Mithras. It would scarcely be inferred from Dr Donaldson's statement, that Burnoufs translation of the words I have quoted from the Zend liturgy, is put forward by its author with the greatest diffidence, knowing as he did, that no other passage in the Zendavesta, or kindred works, gives the smallest support to the exist- ence of two Mithras. It is not however in the narrow limits of a note that I can discuss the conclusions arrived at in this passage of the Varro- nianus. Meantime I would recommend my readers to peruse the whole of that passage from Julius Firmicus, of which Dr D. gives only the opening words. The emphatic " hunc Mithram dicunt," applied by Fir- micus to the male deity, proves clearly enough that in his apprehension at least, the female counterpart was known by a different name. Indeed, archaeology shews that the female statue described by FiAnicus was a representation of the Venus Mylitta. Sed hsec hactenus. Adversaria. I. On an Egyptian MS. of the Iliad. The Rev. Churchill Babington has received from A. C. Harris, Esq., of Alexandria, in answer to his enquiries respecting a MS. of Trypho, the following communication, which he requests us to insert. (Copy). Alexandria, April, 1854. The MS. of Tryphon was found upon a mummy in Middle Egypt, and I suppose that mummy to have been the body of Tryphon himself. The treatise is entitled Tpvvos rx"7 ypap- fiaTtKTj. It is written in a papyrus book made from a number of sheets of papyrus, each llf by IO5 inches, folded and placed one within the other so as to form a quire-book llf in length and 5 J in breadth. On one side of each leaf there was written of the Iliad of Homer from 48 to 57 verses ; the whole must have