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The excellent article of Dr. Clark in Classical Philology I, pp. 313 ff., has convinced me that the archonship of Philippos, and hence the death of Menander, do really belong to 292/1 B. C. His proof, which is grounded on the sound maxim that the birthyears of celebrities were often ascertained in antiquity by calculation, while the years of their death rested upon contemporary records, starts with the pretty demonstration that Menander and Epicurus became ephebes, the former in 325/4, the latter in 324/3. Dr. Clark is thus enabled to maintain the report of Strabo that the philosopher and the comedian were avvcrfl3,ot, while he discards the false combination that, for this reason, they were both born in 342/1. 342/1 was the well-established birthyear of Epicurus; the birth-year of Menander, on the other hand, was 343/2, and since he lived 52 years his death occurred in 292/1, or, as is otherwise recorded, in the thirty-second year of Ptolemy Soter's reign (323/2-285). There are still some weak places in this argument, but it is doubtless the best solution of the problem thus far reached,' and it is not invalidated by Wilhelm's new doctrine of the 3aa-AXE(a (Urk., pp. 215 ff.), or by his redating of IG. II 2. 975 f. (ibid., pp. 63 if.). In my Priests of Asklepios (p. 150) I rashly affirmed that the location of Philippos in 293/2 was now beyond doubt. This I should like to emend. What I should have said is that the sequence Philippos-Kimon is indubitable; for that the words used to characterize the activity of Phaidros, hoplite-general in Kimon's year (Ka 7T)V '7rotXc EXeVOEpav Ka\t 8rykoKpaTovpk6?VqP av'TFP0/lOP '7apei KVpt'0Vq T0tSq /lEO' E'aVTdv1G 331o) 7rapespose the pres in the City f e oligG. II 331) , presuppose the presence in the city of the oligarchic leaders