179, "This appears to be the true reading," and writes in the margin, "The old reading is doubtless the true one," and in the margin of the paragraph referring to [Greek: katharizon] on p.

180 he writes, "Alter the wording of this." This entirely agrees with my own recollection of many conversations with him on the subject.

I think he felt that the weight of the cursive testimony to the old rending was conclusive,--at least that he was not justified in changing the text in spite of it.' These last words of Mr.Rose express exactly the inference that I had drawn.
[120] 'The majority of the Old Latin MSS.

have "in secessum uadit (or exiit) purgans omnes escas"; _i_ (Vindobonensis) and _r_ (Usserianus) have "et purgat" for "purgans": and _a_ has a conflation "in secessum exit purgans omnes escas et exit in rivum"-- so they all point the same way.'-- (Kindly communicated by Mr.H.J.

White.) [121] Dem.xv.