ARS SOPIKK'LIS INTERPRETANDI. 53/ 



For the construction of wv I may refer to vv. 1208 sq. : 



w oi]T tywy , (tAA f.n' ty^to -auovtot' Kai fxuuvov /arjj/ja t(<)\' 

 i/jLMV KaKiov, and Ant. v. 404 : <>v rrv rov veKpov cnrtnra^. 



We may note the obhque reference to lole aoKvov layaXn]' 

 /3Aa/3av vUov aio-(T6vTU)v yitfx(i)v. She is not specifically referred 

 to, as we have noted in other passages. Hence we have the 

 indefinite ra fitv. 



In the Aiax, 405 sq., we liave another instance of this use : 



il T(t fXiV (pdive.t^ (plAoL TOla-<) O^ttOU TTfAttv^. 



So the MSS. Jebb reads : h r« fxtv <pOivsi, toloiu-^ o/xoi) -fAas- 

 suspecting -fAa^ for which he would read /Soml'.^. 



In Uncials, I think, the text was : 



<l>IAOITOI2A()MOY]]EAA3:— I.e., rjAXoc r' o^ «o/k>u -i\a^. 



I take 01^ to be nominative plural, contracted form, with 

 diaeresis of the diphthong. In Homer we find 01^ the ace. 

 plural. This gives good sense, and complies with the metre. 



The translation runs : " This hapless lady seeing the fearless 

 and great bane of the new marriage rushing upon her house in 

 no wise attacked it, but made her plans on the mischievous inter- 

 •change of thought with a stranger, a harmful thought I ween." 



In the antistrophe, 853 sqq. 



Ki\VTai vocro9 i>> -o-oi^ oiov avapcnuJv 

 ov-M aya/cAstrov IIpaKAfoi^v^ a-f/ioAe 



-aOo'g oLKTifraL, 



anifxoXe has the same meaning as d^rt/Sr/, resulted. Herakles was 

 always victorious over his enemies. His suffering at their hands 

 never resulted in his having to be pitied, as now with the robe 

 which he received from no enemy but from his wife. There may 

 be even some significance in inserting his name here 'H^aKAeouc 

 after ayaKXarov. 



Ibid. loiS sqq. 



Y]f). w -ni TOVC ti.vSpo<;, Tiivpyov Tohe atnUov avi/KfJ 

 1) /car ifxav piojxav, (.rv Of avXXape (Toi re yap ofxfxa 

 i/HTrXeov j; ^l i/iov crwueLv. YX xpavto fxtv tywye, KrA. 



Meineke says of this corrupt passage : " Mirifice torserunt 

 ■criticorum ingenia." His own attempt at emendation is most 

 radical in its changes : a-v 8e o-uAAa/Se /xot ' to yap opfxa h -Xeov 

 17 8«;^a (Tov (TMKuv. Dindorf suspects a lacuna. Jebb accepts 

 -£? rrXiov and changes croi re yap ofA/iia into aoi yap trot/xa. 



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