^{page 1 note 2} For the latest review of the evidence see Handley's edition of Menander, 's Dyskolos (London, 1965), 25ff.Google Scholar , with a valuable bibliography that omits, however, Theuerkauf, , Menanders Dyskolos als Bühnenspiel und Dichtung (Diss. Göttingen, 1960), 111ffGoogle Scholar . Mette, , Lustrum, 10(1965), 35 ff.Google Scholar , provides no refutation of Handley's conclusions.

^{page 2 note 1} Cf. Gomme, , Essays in Greek History and Literature (Oxford, 1937), 263 f.Google Scholar

^{page 2 note 2} Cf. BICS 6 (1959), 78Google Scholar , and a forthcoming paper in GRBS;

^{page 3 note 1} Fr. 416 Körte. This is no place to argue whether this is one continuous fragment or a combination of two separate ones. See Zuntz, , Proceedings of the British Academy, 43 (1956), 209 ff.Google Scholar ; Gomme, , CQ 10 N.S. (1960), 103 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar ; and Kokolakis, , Ὁ Ὑпοβολιμαῖος τοũ Μενάνδρου (Athens, 1962)Google Scholar , which is reprinted from vol. 42 of Athena.

^{page 4 note 1} Anth. Pal. 9. 187.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 2} Protrepticus ad Nepotem, vv. 45 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 3} In Leo, F., Ausgewählte kleine Schriften, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Ed. Fraenkel, (Rome, 1960), i. xxxii, n. i.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 1} There are promised portions of Karchedonios and Kolax, if a recent newspaper report is to be trusted (Sunday Times, 7 05 1967, 8).Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 2} ἐρεῖς / τοũτ', οἴδ' ἀκριβῶς, ὤσθ' ὃ μὲν νυνὶ пοεῖς / ἀпόпληκτόν ἐστι.

^{page 5 note 3} The idea is a Greek platitude. Cf. for example Homer, , Il. iii. 442, xiv. 294Google Scholar ; Anacreon, fr. 34Google Scholar ; Soph. Antig. 790Google Scholar ; Eur. Hipp. 398, fr. 161Google Scholar ; Plato, Phdr. 231 dGoogle Scholar ; Plaut. Merc. 443–6Google Scholar , Truc. 47.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 4} In his first 1908 edition.

^{page 6 note 1} Cf. Gnomon, 39 (1967), 345.Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 2} Menanders Dyskolos: Untersuchungen zur dramatischen Technik (Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, 14: Meisenheim am Glan, 1965).Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 3} So Phaedrus, , v. IGoogle Scholar ; Suda, s.v. Μένανδρος.

^{page 7 note 1} Menander was λαμпρός καί βίῳ καί γένει, as the anonymous пερί κωμῳδίας (Kaibel, , Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, 1. 9), 17, says.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 2} Cf. Rh. Mus. 102 (1959) 255.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 3} Cf. Gomme, , Essays, 254Google Scholar ; Theuerkauf, , 28 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 4} Cf. Phoenix, 18 (1964), 110ff.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 5} AJP 80 (1959), 410.Google Scholar

^{page 8 note 1} 5. 36.

^{page 8 note 2} Barigazzi, 's recent book, La formazione spirituale di Menandro (Turin, 1965)Google Scholar comes at times perilously close to this position, despite its many excellent qualities (cf. CR 17 N.s. [1967], 149 ff.Google Scholar ; Sandbach, , Gnomon 39 (1967), 238 ff.)Google Scholar Three recent general discussions deserve to be singled out for judgment and precise focusing: Webster, , Studies in Menander (Manchester 1950 and 1960), 195 ff.Google Scholar ; Corno, del, Menandro: Le commedie, 1 (Milan, 1966), 39 ff.Google Scholar ; and especially Gaiser, , Antike und Abendland 13 (1967), 8 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 1} Cf. Rieth, , Die Kunst Menanders in den ‘Adelphen’ des Terenz, herausgegeben von K. Gaiser (Hildesheim, 1964)Google Scholar , passim and 115 ff.

^{page 9 note 2} Eth. Nic. 1121^b.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 3} Cf. Marti, , Lustrum 8 (1963), 78 fGoogle Scholar . and n. 1. The reference to Lessing is given in Greece & Rome 10 N.S. (1963), 140 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 4} Cf. especially Webster, , op. cit. 153 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 1} I have reopened this question in a paper to appear in CQ.

^{page 10 note 2} Cf. Wilamowitz, , Schiedsgericht, 65 fGoogle Scholar . Epit. 150ffGoogle Scholar . appears to be a reference to Sophocles, ' Tyro (2. 272 Pearson)Google Scholar , but the charcoal-burner substitutes a goatherd for Sophocles' horseherd, and a ‘wallet of recognition tokens’ (пηρίδιον γνωρισμάτων) for the cradle which is attested for Sophocles by Arist. Politics. 1454^b.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 3} Men. Sik. 176 ffGoogle Scholar . Kassel; Eur. Orestes, 866 ffGoogle Scholar . Cf. Handley, , BICS 12 (1965), 41 ff.Google Scholar ; Kassel, , Eranos 43 (1965), 8ff.Google Scholar ; and Lloyd-Jones, , GRBS 7 (1966), 140 f.Google Scholar

^{page 11 note 1} Op. cit., passim and especially 49 ff., 75 ff. The section of this paper that follows could not have been written without Schäfer's penetrating analyses.

^{page 12 note 1} 117ff.

^{page 12 note 2} 166.

^{page 13 note 1} Cf. Greece & Rome 10 N.s. (1963), 142ffGoogle Scholar . (Adelphoi), and Ludwig, , Gnomon 36 (1964), 159 (Kolax/Eunouchos).Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 1} Cf. Theuerkauf, , 59.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 2} Cf. Stoessl, , Kommentar zu Menanders Dyskolos (Paderborn, 1965), on v. 53.Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 1} Cf. Phoenix, 18 (1964), 123Google Scholar ; and Handley, and Stoessl, on Dysk. 965 f.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 1} On the interpretation of this line see Leo, , Der Monolog im Drama, 102Google Scholar ; and Webster, , CR 15 N.S. (1965), 17.Google Scholar

^{page 17 note 1} Cf. especially Barigazzi, , 135 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 17 note 2} Cf. Görier, , Philologus, 105 (1961), 299 ff.Google Scholar ; Williams, , Rh. Mus. 105 (1962), 221 ff.Google Scholar ; and my own note in Phoenix, 18 (1964), 232 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 17 note 3} The quotation is from Austen, Jane's Northanger AbbeyGoogle Scholar , ch. 5.