^{page 119 note 1} The claims of the Munich Epitome have been undeservedly disregarded. Bad as it is in many ways, it is the only MS which gives the correct spelling of Πoλυπρχων in viii 14 and has the necessary τoὑς in ix 18, it is unique in the number of the Characters which it contains, and its reading κραμoν in vi 12 is almost certainly older than the τò δεσμτριoν of the other MSS. Again, wherever an epitome gives an expression in a longer form than the fuller MSS, it is probably nearer the archetype. When the fuller MSS themselves bear witness to the epitomiser's hand, as in the case of AB (compare, in part of xxx, AB with V), the probability becomes very great. While Ep. Mon. is never in any important respect longer than V, it is longer than AB in eight or nine places where the addition is either necessary to the sense or an improvement of it.

^{page 121 note 1} I quote from the Thesaurus ‘. . . [νασεσυρμνoς, obscaenus, Gl.] . . . Synesius 213c κωμῳδαν νασεσυρμνην κα πλημμελ⋯ [ubi ἄκoσμoν, πρεπ⋯ interpretatur Suidas, qui addit locum anonymi . . . τòνδ νασεσυνoν ἄπλαστoν κα πλo⋯ν’.