534 ARS SOPIIOCLIS INTERPRETANDI. 



the diijj, the wild beast, was the means of taming Herakles. The 

 a' refers to Deianeira, as the Chores turns from the third to the 

 second person to a.ddress her when she appears towards the close 

 of the ode. 



In verses 731-3 the chorus betrays a knowledge of facts that 

 they may have gathered on entering at the close of the prologue 

 that closed at line 93. 



These lines therefore run : 



Tils -f<^(>(^s" TTO/yy^jyUTTiJ 



•< , ' ■. \ / , 



" Thence may he come to thee, all-subdued (tamed) by per- 

 suasion, with his strength (person) all-anointed on the pretext of 

 the robe." 



If it had not been for the metre I would have retained 6'jj/j(><. 

 -ij-yy^p'umo crvv Kpurtt refers to Herakles' athletic prowess, as 

 athletes were anointed or rubbed with oil after their exercises. 



Ibid. 828 sqq. 



^ \ ^\ ^ \ / 

 -wfj ycj' I'V >> fill AKvaaMv 



fTL -oTt f r ^7Tl7T( V .V iVOl Ui'A'HH' 



y\aTfJHuV ; 



In the corresponding line of the antistrophe, 840, the Codex 

 Laurent ianus reads : 



vSirov u vno (poivin dnAofKiiriK Ktt'rp f;r'^f(^al'T«. 



In v. 830 Jebb reads: fV< -or' tr' t-Z-ovov <;-<'.i'(oi'>- f^m Oaviof 

 XfiTpfiav ; accepting Gleditsch's conjecture novivv after in'iTTOvov. 



In the line of tlie antistrophe the Cambridge editor reads : 

 rStfrrroK v-o(p('>vL(t 6oX(i'>txvB«. Ktvrp tuiCtcravra based on Gleditsch. 



This view of Gleditsch and his followers I have to reject. His 



conjecture -oviov in 830 is nothing more than a stopgap to emend 



the metre which he is compelled to change in two places in v. 840. 



There are three points that go against inserting jrovwv after 

 » f 



tTTITTdVuV. 



In the first place Xtvao-u.v is without an object, a 

 construction not found elsewhere. L. has a space of seven or 

 eight letters between ttotI and fV. This space must have con- 

 tained the object of Xtva-atov and the preservation of the e in 

 rroA shows that the following letter was a consonant and not a 

 vowel. 



I must first consider the metre of v. 840 and the readings 

 before I can decide on the quantities rec^uired in the lacuna in 

 V. 830. 



