The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 38

from whom he expects to learn the truth; his sister herself he expects to be somewhat despondent in view of the marriage being prepared.

Fr. C (see 2 n.) seems to be the greeting of a master of one of the stage households to his home on returning from abroad.

In GRBS 10 (1969), pp. 307–24 I have attempted a reconstruction of this famous play, taking into account also the membranae Petropolitanae Leningrad parchments and the mosaic from the villa at Mytilene which shows a scene from Act II.¹ A coloured plate is now published in S. Charitonidis, L. Kahil, R. Ginouvès, Les Mosaïques de la Maison du Ménandre à Mytilène (Bern, 1970). For photographs of the membranae (P. Gr. 388) I am indebted to Dr. V. M. Barashenkov, Director of the Saltikov–Schedrin State Public Library in Leningrad, Dr. I. F. Grigoreva, head of its International Exchange Section, Madame Granstrem, Curator of Manuscripts, and to Professor I. Fikhmann. In the elucidation of the fragments I owe a great deal to Professors E. W. Handley and T. B. L. Webster, Drs. John Rea and Colin Austin, and Mr. W. E. H. Cockle.