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 336 Journal of Philology. 5 m. [read 3m.] Id. and 7m. Id.) to the epoch of Vespasian = 1 July a.d. 69. The 2300 days of Daniel terminate, he says, at the same goal : " These make 6y. 4 m., of which one-half goes to the reign of Nero, and half to Otho, Galba, Vitellius and Vespa- sian." In fact, the sum is 6y. 109d., reaching from 23 July a.d. 71 back to a.d. 65, 5 April, from which day to the death of Nero, 9 June a.d. 68, are 1161 days, very little more than half of the whole. He adds: Ka bid tovto Xe'y AavvjX, K.r.X. "And this is why Daniel says, Blessed is he that cometh to the 1335 days : for until (the expiration of) those days the war lasted, but then it ceased." Evidently something is lost before these words, to this purport: "And then the Temple was destroyed by fire, but the siege still continued until the city was taken. And this is why," &c. Henry Browne. IV. Remarks on some of the Greek Tragic Fragments. {Continued from page 232.) Eurip. jEolus. fr. 14 (28). 6 xpovos anavTa toIo-iv vcrrtpov (ppdaci. dos iariv ovtos, ovk epar&o-iv Xe'yei. Dindorf says, "Alter versus si est Euripidis, mirer si poeta hoc SCribere maluerit quam X<iXoy yap eort kovk ipoaruta-iv cy(i. ' A simpler correction would be dos nr ovtos. The confusion be- tween cWtv and ris is sufficiently natural, and has been illustrated by Porson. Eurip. Alexander, fr. 11 (54). ovk eoriv (V kokoIo-ip cirytvaa, Trap' dyadotai 8* dvSpwv. These verses are commonly assumed to belong to the lyrical part of the play, but they may be easily reduced to iambic metre, ovk to-Tiv (V KaKoiatv evytWt' apa, dyadotai 8' dvbpvv.