1. ὅσῳ: cp. [190] 9, where there is the same divergence between F and PMV.
2, 4. See Glossary under ἄλογος and κυκλικός.
13. Usener suggests that this line may possibly come from the Persae of Timotheus, some newly-discovered fragments of which were issued by Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in 1903.—Similarly, in Latin, cretics may be found in such lines of Terence as “tum coacti necessario se aperiunt” (Andr. iv. 1).
16.
– – ᴗ – – ᴗ – – ᴗ “O Phoebus | O Muses | co-worshipped”
might give the metrical effect, in a rough and uncouth way. In Latin cp. “baccare, laetare praesente Frontone” (Rufinus de Metris Comicorum).
18. πρώτη τεθῇ τῶν μακρῶν, ‘at the head of’; cp. note on [98] 7 supra.
21. After πορευθῶ P has a gap which would contain a dozen letters, and in the middle of the gap the original copyist has written οὐδ(ὲν) λείπ(ει).