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d 5e fjLva.(/TLS 

 dvarols evTroT/jLOTaTa jieXecov 

 avexovaa jStou fipaxvv iadjjLOV, 



where iadfxos refers to "the narrow span of life," modern scholars 

 have ignorantly sought to substitute something else. Nauck here 

 proposed oI/jlov, as Piatt does for Parmenides. But the MS. reading 

 is confiimed by Aelian, V. H. 2. 41, ore avTu to eK Bovtovs ixavTetov 

 a4>'i.KtTo Tvpokk'yov Trjv rod ^iov crrej'oxwptai', and by Cicero's use of 

 angustiac tcmporis. 



I should therefore read lad jibs 6 Solo in both fragments. Lest 

 anyone be disturbed by the hiatus between ert and lad/jLos, I remark 

 that we find another instance of it in fr. 4, 6, 



TTjv bi] TOL 0pdfco iravaTevdea tmiev aTapirop, 



in each case in the bucolic diaeresis. Diels, Parmenides Lehrgedichf, 

 p. 67, in his note on the latter passage, well sa\'s: "Der Hiat in der 

 bukolischen Diarese nicht anzutasten!" Indeed, the collision of 

 words ending and beginning with the same vowel was even regarded 

 by ancient grammarians as peculiarly justifiable. See Christ, Metrik 

 der Gricchen and Romer^, p. 41, § 55, and the remarks of ancient 

 grammarians on Hom. Od. X 595, Verg. Georg. 1, 2S1, and Hor. C. 

 1. 28, 24. Herwerden, Lexicon Gr. Suppletorium, p. 400, suggests 

 that lad/dos may have had the digamma, referring to Pindar, Isth. 

 1. 10, 32 and Bacchyl. 2, 7 Blass., but continues, "Sed fortasse hiatus 

 nominum propriorum licentiae tribuendus. Cf. O. Schroeder, ProL 

 Pind. II. p. 14 et p. 17. Nee sane digamma habere potuit, si des- 

 scendit a verbo Ikvau' I do not believe it had the digamma. 



V^ 117, 7. Fr. 5, to yap avTO voelv kcfTiv re /cat dvai. 



The construction of this sentence has occasioned difficulties. It is 

 obvious, however, that it is identical in meaning with fr. 8, 34, to be 

 discussed below. I think we have here a case of brachylogy, and that 

 we must supply votlv before elvai from the preceding voetv. "For 

 it is one and the same thing to think and to think that it is." See 

 the examples cited by Kiihner-Gerth, II. p. 565, § 597, h. Burnet, 

 Early Greek Philosophy-, p. 198, notes 1 and 3, piopounds syntactical 

 doctrines and puzzles which one ought in kindness to ignore. Any 

 good grammar will supply abundant examples of the substantive 

 use of the infinitive, with or without the article, earlier than the date 

 of Parmenides. For Greek lyric poets, see Smyth, Greek Melic Poets, 



