[23 adj
*Ed. pr. Vogliano, Papiri Greci e Latini, x. 1032, no. 1181, p. I(¡9. See Milne, Class. Rev. 47, 1933, 62 ; Snell, Bacchylides fr. dub. 60, 61; Severyns, Bacchylide, 1933, p 142; Davison, Class. Rev. 1934, 205 and literature quoted there and by Snell, loc. cit.; Bowra, Class. Rev. 1933, 440 ; Korte, Archiv, xiii. 1938, 92 ; Snell, Hermes, FAnzelsc.hr. 5, 1937, 98.
Ascribed to Bacchylides on grounds of style.: especially because of the abundance of compound adjectives, and the preference for new formations (of. in the first three Bncs of the second piece ioSepx-qs, veoxeXaSos). Further: the. fragments seem to be a continuation of the alphabetically arranged Dithyrambs of Bacchylides in the B.M. papyrus. The latter run in order down to the letter 1: the second of our pieces begins with the letter A; and it is not unlikely that the first begins with the letter K (Kafleipoi, or Kdoriop Kai UoXvSevKgs). But it must be confessed that the subject-matter of the first piece is uncertain (Milne may be right in detecting a reference (vv. 12-15) to the story of divine twins, one of whom was to dwell in Hades, the other on earth. Castor and 1'olydeuces would then be the most natural subject: though others—e.g. the Cabiroi—cannot be excluded from consideration). Further, Davison is justly sceptical about 382
Lachesisa and Ilithyia sent forth a great clamour from their lips. . . .
(fragments of eight more lines)
• Lachesis as goddess of childbirth elsewhere only Isyll. 4 Paeon 18.
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