ARS SOPHOCLIS INTERPRETANDI. 533 



undoubtedly corrupt without attempting to emend it. This is a 

 very serious flaw in the work of the textual critic. 



The only change required in this passage is the simple restoration 

 {jitvovaa, " abiding, awaiting " for /mlv ova-a and the mark of 

 punctuation must be removed after (jwatv : 



t) K<n T(i XixixTTpa KCtt Kar o/t/ia Koi (pvcriv | naTpoq aevovaa 

 ytvecrii' Eupurow noTt | IoA»/ KaXt-nro ktX. 



<pv(riv does not mean " birth " as taken by Jebb, but " form, 

 stature," as used by Sophokles in O.T. 740 : rov ^e Xuiov (pvcrtv 

 TIV <i'\^- <Pp(>-Ui^ ktX. 



7raTp6<; gOes very closely with -a Xafxnpu Kai kot oiijw. K'U 

 (pvaiv. There is no difficulty with the meaning of o^i^ia when 

 (pvaiv is taken in this sense and yivtaiv is not left otiose as it would 

 be according to the view of Jebb. Kar ofx/ui Kal (jwatv refers to her 

 noble appearance and fine build with which Deianeira was struck. 

 TToA by its position shows that it goes with ^uvovcro. as well as 

 'KoXe^To. Translate : " Indeed awaiting once the lustre of her 

 father Euiytos as to her appearance and build she was called lole." 

 She received her name naturally as an infant. As a child she 

 had to grow up still before she could show her full build and ap- 

 pearance. Hence she was awaiting this splendour. 



Ibid. 660 sqq. 



oOtV fwXot -avd^tt'pov^ 

 Ta<; TTiiOov^ 7Tay\pi<Tro> 

 iTvyKpautic; eni 7Tpo<po.(Te( Or^po'^. 



So the MSS. For Tzav 6.^t,tpo(^ Mudge reads jraviinepo^;. For the 

 unmetrical 6r)f)6<^ Haupt gives ^cipou^. (TvyKpa66i<^ cannot be 

 right, as we require a long, short, long syllable as is shown by 

 i^tXvs V. 653 in the strophe j3'. For Or] pot; we require a short, long. 



Jebb accepts -avt'/ttpos- on the strength of the meaning of 

 (TvyKpaOeii; which he however obelizes. 



Of Tzayy^piarM Liddell and Scott say that it stands without a 

 substantive ! Schneidewin reads ayKia-Tpoi. 



I feel that the substantive with which -a-yy^/rrrw goes is con- 

 cealed in the corrupt (TuyK-|Oa6'eJv, for which I would suggest 

 2YNKPATEI2— i.i;. <tvv koAtu <r'. 



rravaaepoq is sound, but it means: quite tame, soft, gentle. This 

 adjective is found in Ecclesiastical writers, but the simple qfiepos 

 is found in classical writers. Here we have once more that 

 Sophokles uses a word that is extant only in late writers. 



;ravajuepo9 goes with the genitive ra^ neidovs;. If it had not 

 been for the metre there would be some point in retaining $r}p6<; as 



