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688 Mkcellaneoiis ObservatAons. I propose reading in the second line, evvia TiXXovre^ kw^ dXaria oeiaaXeouTa* These p^eV^xa were small birds, salted and pickled. It must be allowed that we have no authority for SeiaaXeco ; but we have in Suidas ^eiaaXeo^' KoirpcoSr]^. Perhaps SetaaXoevra might be preferred, as being more Homeric; the poem of this Hipparchus being probably a parody of the Iliad. Jacobs had already suggested that kukcl entered into the corrupt word KaXKaTidoei. Athen. vii. p. 307 B. EvOu^rj/uo^ Se 6 *A6rji^a7os, ev rip irepi Tapiyoov. " EioYj Kecrrpeoov elvai aCprjvea kul caKTvXea, Kai K€(paXov£ ixev XeyeaOai^ dia to (iapvTepav ttjv K€(paXr}v hyeti^j aCprjvea^ oe otl Xayapol Kal TeTpaytovoi' Ta oe Tcjov CaKTvXeaw to ttXuto^ ^X^^ eXaGcrov tvov cvelv caKTvXwv^^ Schweighaeuser in a note says, " SiSaKTvXewv edd. sed ne nunc quidem persanatus locus.""' It would seem that the corrupt reading must have arisen from ^id improperly coalescing with SaKTvXewv. We ought therefore to read, 'Wd oe tcov Suktv- eodv oia TO 7rAaT09 e^etr eKacrcrov twv cveiv ouktvKijov. Athen. x. p. 430 D, xi. p. 481 A. A well-known fragment of Alcaeus, variously attempted by several eminent critics, but as yet according to Matthise (Alcaei Frag. p. 32.) un- satisfactorily. Porson, Adv. p. II9, reads, Ylivwfxev' TL Ta Xv^v a/ijueVo/xei/; oa/cTfXos afxepa* Kaoo deipe KvXiyyat^ jueyaXais di ra iroLKiXXr]^. and adds, " vulgo tov Xvyyov. Secundum versum qui velit et possit corrigat."'*' A challenge from such a man, who may be called a ^' dead shot*'*' at an emendation, is an awkward thing; nevertheless critics have been found in abundance, who would attempt what the great master has pronounced incurable. Matthiae has enumerated about a dozen of these attempts, some by renowned scholars of the present day. Dindorf, in his edition of Athenaeus, has adopted the very ingenious and simple correction of an anonymous critic in the Jena Lit. Journal for the year I8O6, No. 249, Kaob' deipe KvXi'^vai^^ jueydXac^, diTat TToiKiXat^^ but if, as Matthiae remarks, (Ale. Frag. p. S3,) the second syllable in aiTrj^ is always long, the correction is invalid with respect to quantity. The field being therefore still open, I would venture to propose reading