A Note On Euripidean Manuscripts

A NOTE ON EURIPIDEAN MANUSCRIPTS BY P. G. MASON In the last chapter of his recent book 'The Political Plays of Euripides', Dr. Zuntz, after a penetrating and valuable examination of the hypotheses of the Euripidean plays, argues tentatively that the hypotheses in L were perhaps taken from a MS. different from that from which the text was copied, and that this was possibly also used as a norm by the diorthotes of L for the correction of the text as written by the main scribes, and contained, as L did, the unannotated plays. This argument, not in itself at

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