1. The character [Symbols:] appears at the end of every dochmius shown by the papyrus. After the first, third and fifth it is written in the same line with the text. After the seventh it is written above that line, between two vocal notes. Dr. Crusius takes it to be the instrumental [Symbols: Z], explaining the difference of shape as due to the necessity or convenience of distinguishing it from the vocal [Symbols: Z]. If that were so the form [Symbols: 1.] would surely have been permanent, and would have been given in the schemes of Alypius and Aristides Quintilianus. I venture to suggest that it is a mark intended to show the end of the dochmius or bar. 2. The group [Symbols: 21 D] occurs twice, before and after the words [Greek: deinôn ponôn]. There is a difficulty about the sign [Symbols: 2], which Dr. Crusius takes to be a _Vortragszeichen_. The other two characters may be instrumental notes. The double [Greek: ô] of [Greek: hôs] (written [Greek: ÔÔS]) is interesting because it shows that when more than one note went with a syllable, the vowel or diphthong was repeated. This agrees with the well-known [Greek: hei-ei-ei-ei-ei-eilissete] of Aristophanes (_Ran._ 1314), and is amply confirmed by the newly discovered hymn to Apollo (p. 134). _Musical part of the Seikelos inscription._ [Symbols: C Z Z KIZ I] [Greek: OSONZÊSPHAINOU] [Symbols: K I Z IK O] [Greek: MÊDENOLÔSSY] [Symbols: E., C O i; C K Z] [Greek: LYPOUPOSOLI] [Symbols: I IC I K C OZ] [Greek: GONESTITOZÊN] [Symbols: C K O i [.Z]] [Greek: TOTELOSOCHRO] [Symbols: K C [=C] C [.=X]] [Greek: NOSAPAITEI] The inscription of which these lines form part was discovered by Mr. W. M. Ramsay, and was first published by him in the _Bulletin de correspondance hellénique_ for 1883, p. 277. It professes to be the work of a certain [Greek: Seikelos]. The discovery that the smaller letters between the lines are musical notes was made by Dr. Wessely. The Seikelos inscription, as Dr. O. Crusius has shown (_Philologus_ for 1893, LII. p. 161), is especially valuable for the light which it throws upon ancient rhythm. The quantity of the syllables and the place of the _ictus_ is marked in every case, and we are able therefore to divide the melody into bars, which may be represented as follows: [Symbols: V?--I v %.)..s 10-I? L, I/4 i v^%., L)? % i:\--%. i v1/4d] [Greek: hoson | zês phai-| nou; mêden | holôs sy ly-| pou; pros oli-|] [Symbols: " \s 10 V1/4.0,? V? V V Lo V V V L.? I/4.?] [Greek: gon esti to | zên; to telos | ho chronos apai-| tei.] _The hymns recently discovered at Delphi._