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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
The fragment is preserved in two sources, Clement of Alexandria's Miscellanies, Strom. 5.14.112 (ii.402 Stählin), which gives the order of words printed above, and Eusebius' Praep. Evang. 13.680c, in which the second line is given as 
. The latter reading was preferred by Bergk, but there seems at first little reason to prefer one order over the other. I shall return to this issue shortly.
2 Bergk T., Poetae Lyrici Graeci (Leipzig, 19144).
3 For Melanippides and the dithyramb, cf. Suda, s.v. μ 454,455, Xen. Mem. 1.4.3 etc. He is also said to have composed hymns (Meleager 1.7 GP ═ AP 4.1.7), epigrams, elegies, and epic poems (Suda).
4 This form appears in Euripides; seeWest, M. L., Greek Metre (Oxford, 1992), p. 134.Google Scholar
5 O. Hansen, Živa Antika 36 (1986), 32.
6 Also suggested by Hansen in RhM 133 (1990), 190–2.
7 For this treatise, see Mittheil. Samm. Pap. Erz. Rainer 1 (1887), 84ff. This, and the two passages in Aristotle, are printed by Page as PMG 793.
8 See E. Norden, Agnostos Theos (Stuttgart, 19564), pp. 157–60, for further examples.
