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\vas paved. Sophokles does not ask his audience to believe that 

 such a large stone was entirely corroded by the tuft of wool. Only 

 the part that came in contact with the wool entirely vanished. 

 kut' aKpa<; has the same meaning as in O.C. 1242 and as explained 

 by Suidas. Translate : " and it entirely corroded a part of the 

 stone " and not : "as it crumbled down from the surface of a 

 stone." 



IbiiL 868. 



TIIVC (>><; u.)iO)i<: K((i (riivio(pf>V(i>i[iiv}i 

 \(<>pit ~i)0<; ilfids yfidld .... 



In his note Jebb says : The MS. reading, u>/6'»js-, cannot be right. 

 Tile word means either (i) " unusual " or (2) unaccustomed to 

 a thing. Here it has been taken in the first sense, as meaning, 

 " with strange aspect," " unlike herself," — i.e., gloomy, instead 

 of cheerful. It seems inconceivable that a classical writer should 

 have so used loiOm^. Rejecting the conjecture ai]^r]Q he proceeds : 

 Surely «>/f^(/s- was merely a corruption of a-y>;6')K-, which does not 

 seem to occur, but which is as correct as ivytjOi'i'^ or -uAi)y)/Oi/^. 



Since the discovery of Sophokles' Indagatores we have more 

 light on our author's boldness of using words. In v. 162 of the 

 Indagatores we find the verb -(//or/^f/o-frt which Maas* has shown 

 to have the same meaning as in Modern Greek, viz., " to die like 

 a dog " ; Dutch " vrekken " and German " crepieren." We find 

 ^ia(j>(o}'Ho in this sense in the Septuagint and Diodoros, etc. Cf. 

 Sophocles, Byzantine Greek-English Lexicon, s.v. 



Furthermore, we have in the vicinity of lOiOt]^ a number of 

 UTTut, iip}]fdvu'. Kaiv<)-on\6t\> (873); ^LJjVoTwaE (881); ^tlpOTTOtiirai 

 (891), etc. In V. 911 we have another instance of our dramatist's 

 bold use of words, as we shall see. 



Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, in his note to Eur. 

 Herakles, v. 2(19, p. 275 sq. says : Weit kiihner sagt Soph. Tr. 196 

 TO rroOoui' tKCKXTO^ iKjiiaOtii' 9^\toi' I ovK av /neutiro irpiv KuO 

 7/rtov>)i' k\vuv. In his note to this verse Jebb says : " I leave 

 70 . . . -o^oTm' in the text, not feeling certain that it is corrupt ; 

 though I am disposed to read, with E. Thomas, tu ycip TroOt'iv ." 

 If TO -oOovp can mean only " the feeling of desire " I think the 

 error must be sought in eK/nadin'. In this case I would read f/cf^nrt /v. 

 I hold that TO -ofiolv is sound. The schol. explains t6 7To()ovjni]'<n'. 

 Translate : "Everyone wishing his feeling of desire to die away." 

 In accepting 7,", -oOor.v = ro -oOou//ti'oi', iKOo.ven' would easily 



* Berl. Philol, Wochenschr. {1912), 34, 1076. 



