504 . transactions. — Miscellaneom. 



the dawn." Ina being spoken of in one legend as having been 

 given by Kui to Tane may perhaps be referred to the following 

 cause : —Although the great deity Tane was, in Western Poly- 

 nesia, the father of gods and men, the representative of the male 

 generative power in the universe : and although tanfi is almost 

 everywhere the common word for " male," or "husband," yet 

 in Eastern Polynesia he was regarded as the "light principle," 

 and stands for "Light "in the ancient Hawaiian Trinity of 

 " Kane, Ku, and Lono," (" Tane, Tu, and Kongo "). Thus runs 

 the sacred chant : — 



" Tane, Lord of Night, Lord the Father, 

 Tu-te-pako, in the hot heavens, 

 Great Eongo with the flashing eyes ; 

 Lightning-like lights has the Lord 

 Established in truth, Tane, Master-worker, 

 The Lord Creator of mankind." 



Thus, that Hina, the bright fair one, should become either the 

 bride of Tane, the Light, or of Ma-Rama (moonlight), seefns 

 mythologically inevitable, and the entanglement between this 

 Hina and our "silver-footed goddess of the sea" is in'obably 

 explained. 



Art. LXVI. — Notes on Antigone, 2-6. 



By Francis Haslam, M.A., 



Professor of Classics, Canterbury College, Christchurch. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th August, 1886.] 



Antigone. 



(1.) 'Qi Koivov avTU^£X<por ^aiiijrrjg Kcipa 



up oi<j& o Ti Ztvg TU)v aw OlciTrov (Cokwi' 

 vTrolov ov-)^i I'CJr tri ^wacuv reXel 

 ovBev yap ovr aXyeivov ovt arriQ arip 

 oiiT aiaypov ovr aTifioi' tad ottoIoi' ov 

 Twr awi' Tt KiijUiyv ovk ottwit tyio KaKiJjr. 



Lines 2-3 : IJ ti - (molov. If there were 6' tl without mdlov, 

 or oTToiov without !> n, the passage would be quite easy. 

 Several solutions have been proposed of the difficulty, — 



a. That it is simply a double inteiTOgation, i.e., " What 

 evil of what sort ?" cf. line 1341, ovl' ixu) oVa irpbg 



TTOTtpOV 'iSu). 



/3. That we should read on, and that there is a mixture 

 of two constructions, such as — 



17 /I' " ry V 1 It ay 



. oiau OTL Ztvc 



{TTt'tJ 

 ~ 

 TTOli 



TTOIOP OV 



2. vlcrda Ztiie birol.ov ov kukov tsXeI 



KttKoy Tt\ei 



Xei 



