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.