Greek and Roman Comedy

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL STUDIES 3.0 (2003/04) ISSN 1477-3643 (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/lics/)

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Greek and Roman Comedy: essays in honour of W.G. Arnott

In 2000, Geoffrey Arnott celebrated his seventieth birthday and the completion of his three-volume edition of Menander. To mark this occasion, and his election as to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 1999, former colleagues at the University of Leeds, where he had been Professor of Greek from 1968 to 1991, organised a conference on Greek and Roman Comedy in his honour.

Many of those who were present at that conference suggested that its proceedings should be published as a Festschrift. This was a suggestion that the organisers were more than willing to take up; but, as things turned out, their willingness outstripped their opportunities. Other heavy commitments constantly intruded, and the project began to drift.

In the interim, the nature of scholarly publication has continued to evolve. Since the launch of LICS was one of the commitments that competed with the original Festschrift plan, it seems appropriate that it should also provide an alternative way forward—especially since Geoffrey himself has always been willing (with some collegial assistance) to embrace technological change, undeterred by a suspicion that computers are inhabited by perversely obstructive mind-reading gremlins. This is our reason for opening a supplementary volume of papers on the subject to which he has devoted most of his scholarly energies. We envisage closing the collection at the end of 2004, and would be glad to hear from any potential contributor who would like to join us in offering this token of respect, gratitude and affection for a fellow-scholar who has done so much to advance our understanding of ancient comedy

Comedy is not the only field that has enjoyed the benefit of Geoffrey’s attention: as can be seen from the appended bibliography, he has made notable contributions to the study of Euripides, Hellenistic poetry, the Greek novel, Aristaenetus, Athenaeus and the ornithology of the ancient world. Cataloguing Geoffrey’s scholarly output is not a trivial undertaking, and almost certainly there are items we have inadvertently omitted. One advantage of an electronic Festschrift is that such oversights can be corrected. Moreover, we can hope to keep abreast of new publications—for Geoffrey is still busy ensuring that even a complete bibliography would not remain complete for very long, The task of updating is one to which we look forward with pleasure.

Roger Brock Malcolm Heath Robert Maltby

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF W.G. ARNOTT

Bibliography of W.G. Arnott

1955 ‘The Autodidaskalos attributed to Alexis’, CQ 49 (1955), 210-6

‘A note on Alexis’ Opora’, RM 98 (1955), 312-5

1957 ‘Split anapaests, with special reference to some passages of Alexis’, CQ 51 (1957), 188-98

1959 ‘Porson’s Law and Middle Comedy’, RM 102 (1959), 170-1

‘The author of the Greek original of the Poenulus’, RM 102 (1959), 252-62

‘Three problems in Alexis: the Parasite’s name, the Poenulus, and the humourless scholars’, BICS 6 (1959), 78f.

1960 Menander’s Dyskolos, or The man who didn’t like people, translated into English prose (London: Athlone Press)

1962 ‘Ocnus, with reference to a passage of Apuleius and to a black-figure lekythos in Palermo’, C&M 23 (1962), 233-47

1963 ‘The end of Terence’s Adelphoe: a postscript’ G&R 10 (1963), 140-4

1964 ‘Notes on gauia and mergus in Latin authors’, CQ 14 (1964), 249-62

‘A note on the two manuscripts of Athenaeus’ Dipnosophistae in the British Museum’, Scriptorium 18 (1964), 269-70

1965 ‘Some notes on the text of the fragments of the comic poet Alexis’, Hermes 93 (1965), 298-310

‘The confrontation of Sostratos and Gorgias’, Phoenix 18 (1964), 110-23

‘Menander, Epitrepontes 400’, RM 108 (1965), 290-2

‘A note on parallels between Menander’s Dyskolos and Plautus’ Aulularia’, Phoenix 18 (1964), 232-7

‘Plautus, Amphitruo 838’, Dioniso 38 (1964), 5-7

‘A note on the motif of eavesdropping behind the door in comedy’, RM 108 (1965), 371-6

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‘ésper lamp£dion dr£matoj’, Hermes 93 (1965), 253-5 ‘Three conjectures’, Philologus 109 (1965), 308-10 [Helidorus, Xenophon of Ephesus, Longus]

1966 ‘Observations on Menander’s Dyskolos’, Mnemosyne 19 (1966), 396-8

‘Notes on Greek texts’, SO 41 (1966), 78-80 [Machon, Chariton]

1967 ‘Amabilis orsa Menandri’, Dioniso 41 (1967), 133-5

‘Martins and swallows’, G&R 14 (1967), 52

‘A note on Gesner’s collation of the Mendoza manuscript of Stobaeus’, RM 110 (1967), 93-6

‘Walter Headlam and Herodas’, Proceedings of the African Classical Associations 10 (1967), 41-4

1968 ‘Studies in comedy, I: Alexis and the parasite’s name’, GRBS 9 (1968), 161-8

‘Some textual reassessments in the Teubner Menander’, CQ 18 (1968), 224-40

‘A little less Menander (Misoumenos fr. 13 Körte)?’, CR 18 (1968), 11-13

‘Menander qui vitae ostendit vitam’, G&R 15 (1968), 1-17

‘Aristaenetus and Menander’s Dyskolos’, Hermes 96 (1968), 384

‘Some passages in Aristaenetus’, BICS 15 (1968), 119-24

1969 ‘Alexis, Aristotle, Com. Anon. Three critical notes’, BICS 16 (1969), 67-9

‘Some textual reassessments in the Teubner Menander: a postscript’, CQ 19 (1969), 205

‘Plautus, Rudens 282’, CR 19 (1969), 129-31

‘Une citoyenne d’Athènes dans le Poenulus de Plaute’, Dioniso 43 (1969), 355-60

‘Callimachean subtlety in Asclepiades of Samos’, CR 19 (1969), 6-8

1970 ‘Towards an edition of the fragments of Alexis’, PCPS 16 (1970), 1-11

‘Menander: discoveries since the Dyskolos’, Arethusa 3 (1970), 49-70

‘Phormio parasitus: a study in dramatic methods of characterization’, G&R 17 (1970), 32-57, reprinted in E. Segal (ed.), Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford 2001), 257-72

‘Studies in comedy, II: toothless wine’, GRBS 11 (1970), 43-7

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‘Young lovers and confidence tricksters: the rebirth of Menander’, Leeds University Review 13 (1970), 1-18

‘Comedy (Greek), Middle’; ‘Alexis’; ‘Apollodorus (3)‘; ‘Diphilus’; ‘Eubulus’; ‘Philemon (2)’, and other entries in N.G.L. Hammond and H.H. Scullard (ed.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary (ed. 2, Oxford 1970)

‘Arrogance with the abacus: a note on Theophrastus, Char. 24’, CR 20 (1970), 278-80

‘Two unpublished papyri in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds’, in D.H. Samuel (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology (American Studies in Papyrology 7), 17-22

1971 ‘Herodas and the kitchen sink’, G&R 18 (1971), 121-32

‘A collation of the manuscripts of Moschus’ Europa’, CQ 21 (1971), 149-53

‘In defence of the manuscripts of Moschus, Europa 47 and 60’, CQ 21 (1971), 154-7

‘The praenomen of Archias’, Hermes 99 (1971), 254f.

‘Reflexions sur le “Stichus” de Plaute’, Dioniso 45 (1971), 549-55

1972 ‘From Aristophanes to Menander’, G&R 19 (1972), 65-80

‘Targets, techniques and tradition in Plautus’ Stichoi’, BICS 19 (1972), 54-79

‘Parody and ambiguity in Euripides’ Cyclops’, in R. Hanslik, A. Lesky and H. Schwabl (ed.), Antidosis. Festschrift für Walther Kraus zum 70. Geburtstag (Wiener Studien Beiheft 5, Vienna 1972), 21-30

1973 ‘Euripides and the unexpected’, G&R 20 (1973), 49-63, reprinted in I. McAuslan and P. Walcot (ed.), Greek Tragedy (G&R Studies 2, Oxford 1993), 138-52

‘Imitation, variation, exploitation: a study in Aristaenetus’, GRBS 14 (1973), 197-211

1974 ‘Terence’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th edition)

1975 Menander, Plautus, Terence (G&R New Surveys in the Classics 9, Oxford 1975)

‘The modernity of Menander’, G&R 22 (1975), 140-55

‘Plauto, uomo del teatro’, Dioniso 46 (1975), 203-17

‘Annotations to Aristaenetus’, Museum Philologicum Londiniense 1 (1975), 9-31

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1976 ‘Two functions of ambiguity in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus’, RCCM 18 (1976), 13-18

‘Quibus rationibus usus imitatur Plautus Menandrum in fabula Sticho nominata?’, in Acta omnium gentium ac nationum conventus Latinis litteris linguaeque fovendis (Matla 1976), 306-10

1977 ‘Textual notes on Menander’s Aspis and Dyskolos’, ZPE 24 (1977), 13-15

‘Four notes on Menander’s Epitrepontes’, ZPE 24 (1977), 16-20

‘Platus, the entertainer’, Lampas 19 (1977), 306-15

‘`H diat»rhsh toà ™ndiafšrontoj tîn qeatîn. Merik¦ tecn£smata toà

EÚrip…dou’, Dodone 6 (1977), 41-53 ‘Swan songs’, G&R 24 (1977), 149-53

‘Some Peripatetic birds: treecreepers, partridges, woodpeckers’, CQ 27 (1977), 335-7

‘Schliemann’s epitaph’, LCM 3 (1977), 93

1978 ‘Notes on eight plays of Menander’, ZPE 31 (1978), 1-32

‘Coscinomancy in Theocritus and Kazantzakis’, Mnemosyne 31 (1978), 27-32

‘The Theocritus Cup in Liverpool’, QUCC 29 (1978), 129-34

‘Pali�j kaˆ nšej lÚseij s� probl»mata tîn e„dull…wn toà Qeokr…tou’, 'Episthmeonik¾ ™pethrˆj tÁj filosofikÁj scolÁj toà Panepisthm…ou

'Aqhnîn 26 (1977/8), 122-34

‘Red-herrings and other baits: a study in Euripidean technique’, Museum Philologicum Londiniense 3 (1978), 1-24

1979 Menander vol. 1 (Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1979)

‘Time, plot and character in Menander’, PLLS 2 (1979), 343-60

‘The opening of the fifth act of Menander’s Epitrepontes: some papyrological problems’, in Actes du XVe congrès international de papyrologie 3 (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 18), 53-7

‘The Mound of Brasilas in Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll’, QUCC 3 (1979), 99-106

‘The eagle portent in the Agamemnon: an ornithological footnote’, CQ 29 (1979), 7-8

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1981 ‘Double the vision: a reading of Euripides’ Electra’, G&R 28 (1981), 179-92, reprinted in I. McAuslan and P. Walcot (ed.), Greek Tragedy (G&R Studies 2, Oxford 1993), 204-17

‘Moral values in Menander’, Philologus 125 (1981), 215-27

‘L’edizione e l’interpretazione dei frammenti di Alesii di Turii: metodo e problemi’, in E. Flores (ed.), La critica testuale greco-latina (Rome 1981), 355-71

1982 ‘Off-stage cries and the choral presence: some challenges to theatrical conventions in Euripides’, Antichthon 16 (1982), 35-43

‘Pastiche, pleasantry, prudish eroticism: the letters of Aristaenetus’, YCS 27 (1982), 291-320

‘Calidorus’ surprise: a scene of Plautus’ Poenulus’, WS 95 (1982), 131-48

1983 ‘Tension, frustration and surprise: a study of theatrical techniques in some scenes of Euripides’ Orestes’, Antichthon 17 (1983), 13-28

1984 ‘Lycidas and double perspectives: a discussion of Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll’, Estudios Clasicos 26 (1984), 333-346

‘Nietzsche’s view of Greek tragedy’, Arethusa 17 (1984), 135-49

‘Hellenistica: notes on Asclepiades of Samos, Herodas and Moschus’, Corolla Londiniensis 4 (1984), 7-16 = Museum Philologicum Londiniense 7 (1984), 1-9

1985 ‘Two notes on Alexis’ Isostasion’, LCM 10 (1985), 98-101

‘Terence’s prologues’, PLLS 5 (1985), 1-7

‘Eine Untersuchung theatralischer Techniken in einigen Szenen des <<Orestes>> des Euripides’, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität Rostock 24 (1985), 9-11

‘Alcune osservazioni sulle convenzioni teatrali dei cori euripidei’, Dioniso 55 (1984/85), 147-55

‘Ezekiel, Exagoge 208’, AJP 106 (1985), 240-1

‘Mel…lwtoj, Melilotus’, BICS 39 (1985), 79-82

1986 ‘Menander and earlier drama’, in J. Betts (ed.), Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster I (Bristol 1986), 1-9

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‘Housman on Plautus and Horace: an unpublished letter’, LCM 11 (1986), 146-9 = Housman Society Journal 14 (1988), 14-17

‘Electra’s musical swan’, Studi in onore di Adelmo Barigazzi I (Rome 1986), 27-31

1987 ‘In praise of Alexander of Myndos’, Studies in honour of Edward Coleiro (Amsterdam 1987), 23-9

‘The time-scale of Menander’s Epitrepontes’, ZPE 70 (1987), 19-31

‘The stream and the gold: two notes on Theocritus’, in Filologia e forme letterarie. Studi offerti a Francesco della Corte I (Urbino 1987), 335-46

1988 ‘New evidence for the opening of Menander’s Perikeiromene?’, ZPE 71 (1988), 11-15

‘A papyrus scrap of Menander’s Sunaristîsai’, ZPE 72 (1988), 23-51 ‘An addendum to “The time-scale of Menander’s Epitrepontes”’, ZPE 72 (1988), 26

‘The Greek original of Plautus’ Aulularia’, Wiener Studien 101 (1988), 181-91

‘Euripides the playwright’, JACT Review 3 (1988), 21

1989 ‘A second fragment of Alexis’ Minos?’, LCM 14 (1989), 31-3

‘A study in relationships: Alexis’ Lebes, Menander’s Dyskolos, Plautus’ Aulularia’, QUCC 33 (1989), 27-38

‘Gorgias’ exit at Menander, Dyskolos 381-82’, ZPE 76, 3-5 (1989)

‘A note on the Antiatticist (98.17 Bekker)’, Hermes 117 (1989), 374-76

‘Great Britain: Greek scholarship’, La filologia greca e latina nel secolo xx: Atti del congresso internazionale, Rome 17-21 September 1984 II (Pisa 1989), 591-617

‘Nechung: a modern parallel to the Delphic oracle?’, G&R 36 (1989), 151-57

1990 ‘aÙlhtr…da pez»n’, Glotta 68 (1990), 91-2

‘Euripides’ newfangled Helen’, Antichthon 24 (1990), 1-18

‘KORAX’, LCM 15 (1990), 80

1991 ‘A lesson from the Frogs’, G&R 38 (1991), 18-23

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‘The Suda on Alexis’, in Studi di filologia classica in onore di Giusto Monaco (Palermo 1991) 327-38

‘Two lexicographical notes on Alexis fr. 189’, Glotta 69 (1991), 187-90

‘Skiron and his celènh’, LCM 16 (1991), 111-2 ‘In search of Heinrich Schliemann’, Omnibus 22 (1991), 17-19

1992 ‘Comic openings’, Drama 2 (1992), 14-32

‘Ancora sulle scene di apertura della commedia’, Aevum Antiquum 5 (1992), 115-27

‘Review-discussion of Hollis: Callimachus, Hecale’, LCM 17 (1992), 27-31

1993 ‘Tradition, innovation and imagination: a cook’s speech in Alexis’, in R. Pretagostini (ed.), Miscellanea di Studi in onore di Bruno Gentili II (Rome 1993), 719-24

Response to H.A. Khan, ‘Conflict and Solidarity in Menander’s Dyskolos’, in J.H. Molyneux (ed.) Literary Responses to Civil Discord (Nottingham 1992), 53-5

‘Some bird notes on Aristophanes’ Birds’, in H. Jocelyn (ed.), Tria Lustra (Liverpool Classical Papers 3, 1993), 127-34

‘Longus, natural history, and realism’, in J. Tatum (ed.), The Search for the Ancient Novel (Baltimore 1993), 199-215

‘Bull-leaping as initiation’, LCM 18 (1993), 114-16

‘Schliemann on the Great Wall of China’, LCM 18 (1993), 3-4

1994 ‘A new look at P. Berol. 11771 (Pack2 1641)’, ZPE 102 (1994), 61-70

1995 ‘Further notes on Menander’s Perikeiromene’, ZPE 109 (1995), 11-30

‘Menander’s manipulation of language for the individualisation of character’, in F. De Martino and A.H. Sommerstein (ed.), Lo spettacolo delle voci 2 (Bari 1995), 147-64

‘Amorous scenes in Plautus’, PLLS 8 (1995), 1-17

‘The opening of Plautus’ Curculio: comic business and mime’, in L. Benz, E. Stärk and G. Vogt-Spira (ed.), Plautus und die Tradition des Stegreifspiels: Festgabe für Eckard Lefèvre zum 60. Geburtstag (Tübingen 1995), 185-92

‘Herodas 1891-1991’, in L. Belloni, G. Milanese and A. Porro (ed.), Studia classica Iohanni Tarditi oblata I (Milan 1995), 657-73

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1996 Alexis: the fragments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Menander vol. 2 (Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1996)

‘Notes on Menander’s Misoumenos’, ZPE 110 (1996), 27

‘Notes on Menander’s Kolax, Koneiazomenai, Leukadia, Misoumenos and Perinthia’, ZPE 111 (1996), 21-25

‘Comedy (Greek), Middle’; ‘Alexis’; ‘Apollodorus (3)’; ‘Diphilus’; ‘Menander’; ‘Philemon’; ‘Phlyakes’; ‘Posidippus’, and other entries in S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (ed.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary (ed. 3, Oxford 1996)

‘The preoccupations of Theocritus: structure, illusive realism, allusive learning’, in M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker (ed.) Theocritus (Hellenistica Groningana 2, Groningen 1996), 55-70

Response to K.H. Lee, ‘Realism in the Ion’, in M.S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the Tragic (Oxford 1996), 110-8

‘Walter Headlam: achiever or non-achiever?’, in H.D. Jocelyn (ed.), Aspects of Nineteenth-Century British Classical Scholarship (Liverpool 1996), 151-60

1997 ‘Two notes on Menander’, ZPE 115 (1997), 73-74

‘First notes on Menander’s Sikyonioi’, ZPE 116 (1997), 1-10

‘Further notes on Menander’s Sikyonioi (vv. 110-322)’, ZPE 117 (1997), 21-34

‘Final notes on Menander’s Sikyonioi (vv. 343-423 with frs. 1, 2 and 7)’, ZPE 118 (1997), 95-103

‘Humour in Menander’, in S. Jäkel, A. Timonen and V.-M. Rissanen (ed.), Laughter Down the Centuries III (Turku 1997), 65-79

‘Love scenes in Plautus’, in J. Axer und W. Görler (ed.), Scaenica Saravi-Varsoviensia. Beiträge zum antiken Theater und zu seinem Nachleben (Warsaw 1997), 111-22

‘Wit and word play in the early Hellenistic epigram’, Sandalion 20 (1997), 7-14.

1998 ‘First notes on Menander’s Samia’, ZPE 121 (1998), 35-44

‘Second notes on Menander’s Samia (Acts II-V)’, ZPE 122 (1998), 7-20

‘Misoumenos 152-59 Sandbach (552-59 Arnott)’, ZPE 122 (1998), 20

‘Notes on Menander’s Phasma’, ZPE 123 (1998), 35-48

‘Menander’s Fabula Incerta’, ZPE 123 (1998) 49-58

‘A note on fr. com. adesp. 1147 Kassel-Austin’, ZPE 123 (1998), 59-60

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1999 ‘Notes on P.Antinoopolis 55 (fr. com. Adesp. 1096 Kassel-Austin)’, ZPE 128 (1999), 49-53

‘Notes on P. Antinoopolis 15 (fr. com. adesp. 1084 Kassel-Austin)’, ZPE 125 (1999), 61-4

‘Further notes on fr. com. adesp. 1147 Kassel-Austin’, ZPE 125 (1999), 65-6

‘Notes on some comic papyri’, ZPE 126 (1999), 77-80

‘The length of Menander’s Samia, ZPE 128 (1999), 45-8

2000 Menander vol. 3 (Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 2000)

‘On editing and translating Menander’, in L. Hardwick et al. (ed.), Theatre Ancient and Modern (Milton Keynes 2000) 23-31

‘On editing fragments from literary and lexicographic sources’, in D. Harvey and J. Wilkins (ed.), The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy (Swansea 2000), 1-14

[with K.J. Dover, N.J. Lowe, and D. Harvey] ‘Biographical appendix’, in D. Harvey and J. Wilkins (ed.), The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy (Swansea 2000), 507-26

‘Notes on some new papyri of Menander’s Epitrepontes’, in E. Stärk und G. Vogt-Spira (ed.), Dramatische Wäldchen. Festschrift für Eckard Lefèvre zum 65. Geburtstag (Spudasmata 80, Hildesheim 2000), 153-63

‘Stage business in Menander’s Samia’, in S. Gödde and T. Heinze (ed.), Skenika. Beiträge zum antiken Theater und seiner Rezeption. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Horst-Dieter Blume (Darmstadt 2000), 113-24

‘L’usage de l’espace dramatique chez Menandre’, Pallas 54 (2000), 81-8

‘Athenaeus and the epitome: texts, manuscripts and early editions’, in D. Braund and J. Wilkins (ed.), Athenaeus and His World. Reading Greek Culture in the Roman Empire (Exeter 2000), 41-52 and 542f.

2001 ‘Some orthographical problems in the papyri of later Greek Comedy I: po(i)ein (along with compounds and congeners)’, ZPE 134 (2001), 43-51

‘Some orthographical problems in the papyri of later Greek Comedy II: -ei or -h(i) as the ending of the second person singular middle and passive in the present and other tenses of verbs in -o, ZPE 135 (2001), 36-40

‘Plautus’ Epidicus and Greek Comedy’, in U. Auhagen (ed.), Studien zu Plautus’ Epidicus (Tübingen 2001), 71-90

‘Visible silence in Menander’, in S. Jäkel and A. Timonen (ed.), The Language of Silence I (Turku 2001) 71-85

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2002 ‘Some orthographical variants in the papyri of later Greek Comedy’, in A. Willi (ed.), The Language of Greek Comedy (Oxford 2002), 191-218

2003 ‘Peripatetic eagles: a new look at Aristotle, HA 8(9).32, 618b18-619a14’, in A.E. Basson and W.J. Dominik (ed.), Literature, Art, History: Studies on Classical Literature and Tradition in Honour of William J. Henderson (Frankfurt 2003), 225-34

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