53- ARS SOPHOCLIS INTERPRETANDI. 



interpretation arose when commentators settled their thoughts 

 on Deianeira as a mother suggested by her being oTrat;;, i.e. unable 

 to bear children when Herakles had died. 



Ibid. 329 sqq. 



1/ o ovv idrruM^ kui TTopiveauio areya^ 



" " « 0- (> ^ 



TUl<; OlKTt AVTT)]V ~f)6<; y ifiOV AUTTJ/V Xdpol. 



This is the reading of the Codex Laurentianus, with most MSS. 

 It is clear that either the first or the second Xvizy^v in the last verse 

 must be corrupt. Jebb accepts the emendation of Triclinius, the 

 scholar of the early fourteenth century, u\\r]v for the first Ai/,t»/v. 

 F. W. Schmidt suggested Au->;v . . , ^t-ATji', which is received 

 by Mekler in the Teubner text. On paleographical groundsel 

 have a doubt against aAA»/»'. The first AYOHN must have 

 arisen out of AYTHN. A and A, T and n are easily confused 

 in capitals. The last line would therefore run : 



7oK oUfTn' ail 7i]v ~j>or y fuou Ai*7rj/i' Anpol. 



For TTpo^ y ifLov compare v. 738 : 



71 C KTTiv. (.) -f((, ~poq y i/jLov u-rvyoo/iiivov | 



Ibid. 379 s<^^- 



)/ iccii 7(1 Mia-pa K(ii Kar ofi.jj.a K(ti (pixriv Trarpo^; /mv uv<j(t 

 y*ivt-:(nv KvpVTOv -ori I IoA»j KoXetro, ktX. 



This is the MS. text, y kuI ra has been changed into 1) ndpra 

 by Canter of the sixteenth century. The acceptance of this emen- 

 dation has led Frohlich and others (Hartung, V/ecklein) to read 

 oi'(./«< for nufw.. Jebb's text accordingly runs : 



1; Kii.pT'i. AajkTTpK Kill Klir (JVD/^Ht Kdl (j-ViTiV TTItTpOC UiV <iV(Ta 



yfVKOlU h.Vf){lT(>V TTnTi | ](')A»/ K".Aet70, ktX. 



Reiske (i 716-1774) was the first to feel some difficulty about 

 /idv after -a-po^ for which he proposed ycip. Jebb says : " Tlie 

 simplest account of the ^itev is that ToA>/ St K-aAou/iiEvj; ought to 

 have followed, but, owing to the fact that her name is primarily 

 in question, the second clause became 'IoA>? 'kuXhto." So he 

 accepts two emendations and smooths over the difficulty* where 

 I think we ought to look for the word that would restore sense to 

 the whole passage. We shall have occasion to draw attention 

 to the fact that eminent scholars have in other passages followed 

 the same bad principle of emending or accepting emendations 

 intended to bring the sense in line with the only word that is 



