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to draw (i. e. from the past) useful inferences for the future, the geni- 

 tive fieWovToiv being used with acfjeXifia for the sake of parallehsm witli 

 t£)v yeponfucov to a-a(j)es. We consider mcfieXifMa a kindred accusative 

 after Kpivetv, the phrase being equivalent to Kplaiv dxpeXifiop Kpiveiv, which 

 no one will think too harsh a construction for Thucydides, especially 

 in such an involved sentence. Compare Plat. Rep. II. 360 E: rfiv 



Kpiaiv Kplvai opdas, and N. Test. JOH. VII. 24 : rfjv biKalav Kpia-iv Kpivare, 

 judge righteous judgment. See also Luc. XX. 47 : puKpa npoa-evxovTai, 

 they make long prayers. The omission of the antecedent of oo-oi is 

 illustrated by ThuC. I. 82 : dueTrl(pOovov 8e, ocroi Sajivep KOi fjpels VTTo 

 tS)v 'Adrjvatcov em^ovKfvopeda. The whole passage will then read : — 



Kat is pev aKpoacnv laas to pfj pvdwdes avTav aTepTTfa-Tepov (fyauelTai • 

 oeroi 8e ^ovkrjaovTai tS>v re yevopepcav to <Tacf)es a k ott eiv Koi Totv peWovrcov 

 TTOTe aidis kuto. to avOpcarceiov towvt<ov /cat TrapaTrKfjaicov eaeadai Q)CJ)fXipa 

 Kpiveiv, avTa dpKovvTcos e^ei. KTrjpd re es aft paXKov r) ayatvurpa ks 

 TO trapaxpripa aKoveiv ^vvKeiTu, And while for hearing it recited the 

 absence of fables in it (my history) will perhaps appear less agreeable ; 

 still it will be satisfactory as it is (aird, notwithstanding the to ptf 

 /Ltu^wSe?) for all who shall wish not merely to have a clear view of the 

 past, but also to draw useful inferences in regard to events which will 

 hereafter in all human probability be like or analogous (to the past). 

 And it is composed as a possession for all time, rather than as a mere 

 prize essay to be listened to for the moment. 



Having (as we think) interpreted the passage in Thucydides by the 

 help of Dionysius, we may perhaps restore the passage in Dionysius 

 from Thucydides. It is clear that the construction is defective, as it 

 now stands ; for w^ekipa can hardly be governed by o-kottuv, and that 

 certainly was not the construction used by Thucydides. We must 

 therefore simply restore the last word Kpiveiv to the quotation in 

 Dionysius, and govern xpw^^'' by Xe'yet (or some such word) under- 

 stood ; so that the sense shall be, he tells all such persons (i. e. Sa-oi 

 ^ovkrjo-ovTai, k. t. X.) to study history. 



II. Notes on two Passages in the Second Philippic of 



Demosthenes. 



1. In Demosthenes, Phil. II. § 35 (p. 74, 6 - 10), we find the 

 following passage in all the older editions : eKaa-Tov vpcbv, Kainep aKpi^us 



flBoTa, o/icos €7ravapvTJ(Tai ^ovXopai rt's 6 ^coKeas koi HvXas it e i a a s v pas 



TTpoevdai, K. T. X. Most modern editors, including Bekker and Dindorf, 



