530 ARS SOPIIOCLIS INTERPRETANDI. 



become iK/naHnv to fit in with the sense, and also on paleographical 

 grounds through the metathesis of the letters BAN into MAG 

 Roberts in his edition of the De Sublimitate, p. 200, s.y. iiOog says : 

 7i0o<;, as contrasted with TraOoq was considered a special mark 

 of comedy as distinguished from tragedy. Hence ?)• i)0ti' (sc. 

 rvvro e(p}])—" in character" or "humorously" (Rutherford, 

 Schol. Aristophan. II 442 ; cp. Plut. De Andiendio poetis). De 

 Sublimitate XXIX 2 reads : ttuOo^ ^f viPovs furty^ti roaovTuv, 



The participle avvM(l)pvio^iiv)}, " with knitted brow " shows that 

 jn\Or]Q must refer to the countenance and the eyes. For the 

 interpretation of (t{]Oi]^ I may cite Philostratos TrtpJ -yii/n-aa-rf/vou 

 XXV, 20. aWa ycip in£Xai>o(j)6aXfi(ov . itXXa fie \apo7Tcoi> fxjiOaXinon' 



'/^*/r 'J 7"P <pvo-i<; (.>jpa<; fiiv fiorpOK fff)//n;i'oro i]Ot] o ixjjOaXpdt^; ; 



ibid. XXV, 16, -j}i' ti' ocijOaXjU'ln- ijOikiiv and XXVI, 15. 



Ibid. 907 sqq. 



«AA)/ ?ie koXXtj dM/ndrfov (rrfXixjxoimxnjj 

 f'( roK <j)iX(in> pXtipeiev o/.vtrcov rtt^a^, 



CKAaitV 1) Cll(TTriVi)<; (KTOpMfliVjf. 



avTi] Toi' iniTt]<; caifiin' oi'aKdXintpiivr] 

 K(ii T(i'^ a-((ic(fq i<; TO Xoiwo}' ovaiaij. 



In his note to line 911 Jebb says : " The MS. text, k(u tu^ 

 inruiSag ic to Xoittov oi/CTtos^, is undoiibtedly corrupt 

 The genuine verse must have had some direct reference to the 

 context. She is weeping at the sight of attached servants whom 

 she is about to leave." He proposes EIIAAAOIS for AllxAIAA^ : 

 Kai Ti}(; i- oXAok tQ To Xoi-ov oi/cr/ac,' '. " and the fate of the 

 property which would thenceforth be in the power of others." 

 Although the slaves are part of the oixr'ia we expect a more direct 

 reference to them. 



The Teubner editors cut the knot by deleting the verse. 



To my mind the text is sound as we have it. ttuk: in Greek 

 means " a slave " as well as " a child." airuti^ can therefore mean 

 " without children," " unlike a child," or " unslave-like," " with- 

 out a slave." Compare ivnaK; which means " blest with children " 

 and in Eur. H. F. 689 and I. T. 1234 it means " well-built, noble 

 son." It has the same meaning as KitXX'i-ati^. Compare Eur. Or. 

 964 Trfpaffpaaaa KaXXiTzatg 6tu^ and Ibid. Phoenissae i6t8 -'.AA' 



In the passage under consideration uTrai^ is formed like uoikoc; in 

 Soph. Philoktetes 534 : aoiicov i'i(ToiKr](Tiv where it means " a 

 dwelling that is no dwelhng " — i.e., a miserable, wretched abode 



