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Who, being poor, would in the city live. 

 Desires to make himself more sad in heart : 

 For when he sees the rich man's luxury 

 And how he lives at ease, then too he sees 

 How hard a life and wretched is his own, 

 " Also Frag. VI. of Aeia-ibaiiicov, the Superstitious Man. Frag. III. of 

 er,cTavp6s, and in the XIX., XX., XLV., XLVII., LVIL, CXLVIIL, 

 CLXIL, and CLXV. of the unplaced Fragments. For example, in 

 LVIL : 



Oral' TTevrjs &V Kal yanelu tls ik6[iepos 

 Ta [xera yvvaiKos €Tri8ex^Tai p^pTj/xara 

 AvTov 8iB<j)(TiP, ovK eKelvrjv XafijSavec. 



When the poor man, resolving he will wed. 

 Looks to get money with the wife he woes, 

 Himself he gives, but her he does not take. ' 



"Among the Menandrian Fragments, about fifteen ha.e this form ; 

 but the examples cited will suffice to illustrate this point of the argu- 

 ment. 



" The expression TTovqpa ttolcov occurs in one of the Fragments attrib- 

 uted to Menander. The adjectives xp^<^°s ^^^ Trovrjpos often occur as 

 antitheses ; and in one instance they are found in the masculine as 

 designations of the opposed characters goo^Z and had. The passage is 

 from the Cnidia, preserved by Stobseus : 



Kal yvrjaios 

 'O xPI^'^^s eVrii', 6 8e irovrjpos KaX v68os> 



" The word XaXe'co meant originally to prate or halhle. It is used 

 in this sense exclusively by Aristophanes ; but soon after his time it 

 began to be employed as the equivalent of Xe'yco, to speak., or talk. 

 It is used by Menander generally in the sense of to prate., but also 

 once or twice in the sense of to speak. In the Septuagint, which 

 belongs to the third century before Christ, it is used exclusively in 

 the latter sense, and in the New Testament the usage is the same. 



" In our passage XaXew evidently is employed in its original sense 

 of prating. This would seem to point to a period as ancient as Me- 

 nander, or about his time. The verb and the corresponding adjective 

 occur in several of his acknowledged Fragments in this sense ; as 

 rrag. I. AvukoKos, " TvepX xpi]P'0-Ta>v XaXeis." 



" These particulars show that, in the general structure of the passage 

 and the minute details of expression, it bears a closer resemblance to 



