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the MSS. would be [Greek: paidon ep' apoto, gnesion epi spora] (Van der Vliet). Unless, however, the phrase [Greek: paidon ep' apoto gnesion] is a stock phrase which occurred in more than one comedy, which might perhaps be argued from the plural _comoediis_, there can be no doubt that the words [Greek: epi spora] are interpolated, inasmuch as the line occurs in the fragment of the [Greek: perikeiromene] of Menander, discovered at Oxyrhynchus by Drs. Greenfell and Hunt (Ox. Pap. ii, No. 211, p. 11 sqq.), and runs as follows

[Greek: tauten gnesion paidon ep' apoto soi didomi. Pol. lambano].

_Serranus._ See note on chap. 10.