Adversaria. 265 originally comprised books A, B, r, A. The scribe having finished copying from Homer, turned the book upside down and com- menced copying the treatise of Tryphon on the blank pages. Unfortunately I have only about half the book I have described, for my servant who found it, in detaching it from the mummy- cloth, which is strongly bitumened, tore out the middle leaves and left the rest in the cloth, and now the body cannot be found ; the pit has been so much disturbed, and men and croco- diles, of which it is full, tumbled one upon the other in sad confu- sion, and the chambers containing them are about 400 feet from the mouth of the pit below ground. Some day I will apply to the Pacha for permission, and spend a fortnight in a deliberate search for what has been left behind. The mummy besides had in its hand a papyrus roll containing the 18th book of the Iliad, which I also have, very nearly complete. II. Miscellaneous Conjectures. 1. Suidas. in V. ASpaoreta. For Adpaorou rov naXatov read A. rov Takaov. 2. Hesychius. in v. tclktovLtov. Read ran rov vlrpov, things from the Soda Market, i. e. " salsamenta " of all sorts. 3. Diogenianus. vii. 88, in Leutsch's Parcemiographi Graeci, Vol. I. p. 302. For irapQevos ra irarp&a read irap8ep,evos ra narpaa, as Homer, (Od. II. 237,) o~<pas yap irapOepevot K(pakas k.t.X. 4. Zenob. vi. 15, ibid. Vol. n. p. 165. For ravra a-ot koX Ilvdia /cat AijXia read ravra k.tX. When a man is doomed, all oracles are alike to him. 5. Argument to the Rhesus. For 6 yovu bucalav iKn8es rrjv virodea-iv rov 'PjJctou read 6 yovp AiKaiapxos k.t.X. C. Badham.
