90 SYLVA CRITICA CANADENSIUM. 
‘Next, then, we shall see, if we join issue in this way, pleasures and 
pains,” &c. The surprised and indignant zofas 07 xa xO AZyers ; with 
which the defender of pleasure greets this home thrust, shows that 
the dialogue has not yet reached that easy didactic stage at which 
any suggestion unfavourable to his client will be suffered to pass 
unquestioned. 
9. Sophocles, Ajax, v. 416. todré tig gpovdy tatu, 
These words are generaily supposed to be equivalent to “hoc sciat 
qui sapit,” “Let him who is wise know this.” In this case, they 
serve as a cue to the spectators. In order to see their force, it is 
necessary to bear in mind the stage at which they are uttered. Ajax 
has just recovered consciousness, and, after an outburst of despair, in 
which, like Shakespeare’s Duchess of Gloster (Henry VI., pt. ii., 
act iv., sc. iv.), he declares that henceforth “dark shall be Ais light 
and night his day,” and accuses all nature of being in league with his 
foes—“long has it kept him about Troy, where he has won nothing 
but dishonour, but no longer shall it keep him in life”—he exclaims, 
TOTO TIS Ypovdy totw—* This let me while in my right mind resolve.” 
As I take it, Ajax fears that he may again relapse into frenzy, and 
work yet more “sorrow for his friends and laughter for his foes ;” 
he will therefore make up his mind, while yet free from madness, to 
die. With regard to this interpretation, I would observe that gpovdy 
is repeatedly used with this signification in the Ajaa, e. g., vv. 82 and 
342; and tre is often used, like our “one,” not only for the second 
and third, but also for the first person (cp. v. 245 of this play), espe- 
cially where there is a hint of something unpleasant which is likely 
to happen to the person indicated—as, for instance, in the ludicrous 
scene between Dionysus and Xanthias, in the Yrogs of Aristophanes 
(vv. 606, 628 and 664). 
10. Cicero, De Legibus, II. xxv. 62. ‘‘Gaudeo nostra iura ad 
naturam accommodari maiorumque sapientia admodum delector; sed 
re{cedo] quiro, ut ceteri sumptus, sic etiam sepulchrorum modum. 
Marcus. Recte requiris.” 
In this passage, which I have given according to Vahlen’s text (as 
being that which adheres most closely to the MSS.), the chief diffi- 
culty lies in the words sed recedo quiro, which are said to be thus 
given in those MSS. which are generally considered to be of highest 
authority. Vahlen’s remedy would appear to be the least violent of 
those proposed; he would read sed requiro. Halm, Klotz, and Feld- 
