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Rh Total 63, of which 2 ( and ) are approved elsewhere.

It is difficult to classify accurately such cases as ap. Bekk. Anecd. 423.9 and Suid. s. v. . The use of may be taken to imply that Menander employed  where he should have had ; i.e. where  was the correct Attic word, and hence  was not strictly correct. Obscure as this instance is, the problem is still further complicated by instances like Eust. 809.42, and Phot. . The latter is the usual way of defining a word which would be unfamiliar to the average reader; i.e. the lemma is cited as being used in the meaning of the other word or words. It is impossible, therefore, to decide whether in the first citation the two expressions are merely synonymous and Eustathius is not condemning Menander, or Photius has copied his original in a more abridged fashion. Again, compare Moer. 48, with Hesych. . In Moeris the phrasing would seem to indicate disapproval of the word, yet this disapproval is not reproduced in Hesychius. Further, note the following examples: Phot. p. 257 N. .—Id. p. 309 N., where and  are the regular Attic forms, as Photius must have known. Clearly the use of cannot be regarded as expressing either approval or disapproval. I shall therefore merely mention the additional instances of this use of in connection with words which appear in Menander but not in good Attic. Obviously there can be no words which the grammarians explain by with the possible implication that they were not good Attic, that do not appear in my list. The list follows:

=, = ,  = ,  = ,  = ,  = ,  = ,  = , ,  = . Total 9, of which 1  is censured elsewhere, and 2 ( and ) approved.

On the other hand we also find in Menander many words which are specifically mentioned by grammarians as Attic and are contrasted with others called "Hellenic" or "Koine". This