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 Remarks on some of the Greek Tragic Fragments. 339 XprjfiaTav varr/p seems to mean the founder of a fortune : but the expression is a strange one. Should we not read o-mnjp ? Eurip. Sthenebcea. fr. 5 (660). Kkvdcovi beivco. . . fipoToo-Tova (Spepet. Dindorf conjectures Papvo~Tovq>, Wagner Pporoarvyel or /3poro- KToua. We might restore sense and metre by reading Kafiporo- o-toVoj, " with the dire and unearthly groaning of the wave." Eurip. Temenidae. fr. 2 (721). (pikel toi noXepos ov iravr evTv^eti/* eaOXcop 8e X ai P L TTap.a tovtov has been altered to roOfie by Gaisford, o-wrjpecpc'i into o-vvrjpfTel by Wagner and Meineke. In v. 4 the change of exovo-i into exoixrrjs would yield a sufficiently good sense, "since even fortune has her mind blinded." Eurip. Phaethon. fr. 5 (766). pinjadels o p.oi nor el Xo-ff on is merely Hermann's attempt to supply a lacuna of four syllables, for which the MSS. give 1YIXAAIIIJ2AGN. I would propose kclv pev Tvyxavrjs <tv y cXttIScop, as unobjectionable in itself, while it approaches much nearer to the ductus literarum. In vv. 10 sqq. of the same fragment, Hermann gives