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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON ‘THE 
PHILEBUS OF PLATO, 
THE POSITION OF THE ROWERS IN THE WAR-SHIPS OF 
THE ANCIENTS, &c. 
BY W. D. PEARMAN, M.A. 
Classical Tutor and Dean of Residence in University College, Toronto. 
Euripides, Zphigenta in Aul. v. 808. In this line, Dindorf and 
others have taken exception to the word dzatdes—for which some 
read with Bothe evzadaz, while others adopt Musgrave’s conjecture 
za. matdas. Properly understood, dzades seems to me preferable, 
not only as being the MSS. reading, but also in point of sense. 
Achilles states that the men of the expedition, chafing at their — 
detention at Aulis, are not all similarly situated: Some, like him- 
self, afvyes ydpwy Olzovs éprpovg euhixdvtes, others eyovtes edyidas 
"Anawes. Here he pauses in his enumeration—robdpoy pév ody x.7.2., 
“ others May speak for themselves, he will state his own case.” As 
I take it, &yovtes edvidas x.t.24. should be rendered “ others, although 
they have wives, have no children.” These, then, would belong to 
the class specially exempt from military service, under the Mosaic 
dispensation (cp. Deuteronomy, ch. XX.v.7; XXIV. v.5). Hence 
the force of the following parenthesis—odtw dewds durétrwx Epwe x.7.2., 
“so constraining a desire for this service hath befallen Hellas.” 
Ibid. v. 1143. 
Those who have adopted Porson’s alteration of zdéyvy¢ into xapyc, 
seem to have overlooked the fact that the imperative force is neither 
absolutely necessary nor, as I think, desirable. Agamemnon, dumb- 
foundered at finding his designs discovered, lets falls the exclamation, 
“JT am lost! my secret is betrayed!’ While he is hesitating and 
thinking what to say next, Clytemnestra sarcastically resumes, “I 
know all! your very silence amounts to a confession, so that you need 
not weary yourself with a long and idle story.” Of course, if we 
retain xduyys, the period after zoAdd must be removed. 
