538 ARS SOPHOCLIS INTERPRETANDI. 



I take an entirely different view of the sentence. I hold that 

 ojifui f/j-Atov »/ 8t f^toi) (TO)t,*iLv is sound. The tk after croc 

 shows that the corruption must be sought there. The only change 

 that we have to introduce is to turn the tau of n into a gamma 

 and divide the words correctly and punctuate properly. In 

 Uncials the original text was EYAAABESOIFE — i.e., o-uAAo/St 

 tr' oTyK yap ktX. We have to punctuate after ifXTrkeov as ^ 

 §t' t/iKiv crwUiv is another sentence of the -pta-^^v^ which is left 

 unfinished bv the quick interruption of Hnhos. 



These hues therefore run : 



<>) -u/ Tovc iivooo^, Tovpyov Tooe p.iiL,uv avijKHi 



»/ KiiT f/tOT piofiav. (TV hi (riiAAcjjt (T (liyi yap ou/ta 



f/i(-A£(<v. j; hi inov ctmUHv .... 1 A. ipavio //.n- tywye. 



Translate : " Collect thyself. Open thine eye full wide. Or 

 through me to save . . . Hyllus : I am helping." 



1] 8(.' tativ a-wUtr. The interrupted thought might have been : 

 Must 1 alone assist him ? 



For the T; I ma}' refer to von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's note 

 on Euripides Herakles 1084, where he inserts it <»/> rn>^a (p6vov 



tTipcV t-l (jx.vio j')(^A(>)^' iiVapaK~v Elian i\aofJieiU)v TioAiV. 



On p. 437 of his edition he says : " Das was eintreten muss, 

 wenn sie dem befehle nicht folgen, wird durch einen Satz mit if 

 wie 1055 angeschlossen : ohne diese Verbindung wiirde die Ver- 

 kehrtheit entsteken, dass Herakles trotz ihrer Flucht sie doch 

 morden wiirde." 



In our passage it seems that Hyllus showed signs of fainting 

 at the sight of his father's agony, and the old man exhorted 

 him to wake up. Naturally we have no indication how this part 

 was acted. What lends force to my view of the passage is the 

 last broken sentence of the old man, which was interrupted by 

 Hyllus. 



The simple verb oiyto is found in Euripides, Aischulos, Horner^ 

 Hesiod, Pindar, etc. 



For the rn = creanrov we may compare Brugmann-Thumb, 

 Griechische Grammatik (1913), p. 480: In der ion. und der att. 

 Prosa waren die einfachen Personalpronomina (wie z. B. in K. 

 378 fyw)' tfil XvaoiiiaL Oder Eurip. Andr. iK^wao) /lu ctol) als 

 Reflexi\'a schon verdrangt, und nur die formelhafte Wendung 

 att. huK<^) j,ioi, ifxol ^oK(o, herod. eyu) /.loi 8okIm hielt das Alte- 

 fest (im Att. daneben auch t/jiavTco 8ok-(5." Compare Kuhner- 

 Gerth, Ausflihrliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache II. i 



