162 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE 
martinet that, according to Livy, when his troopers applied to him 
for some relaxation of their discipline, he replied: “Yes, I will 
relieve you from the obligation of giving a pat to your horse’s back 
when you dismount.” The words are “ne nihil remissum dicatis, 
remitto, ‘inquit, ne utique dorsum demulceatis, quum ex equis 
descendetis.” If any one, who has ever ridden without a saddle, will 
recall his first instinctive movement on dismounting, eqguo lassus ab 
indomito, he will have no doubt either as to the nature of the action 
or the owner of the dorsum. 
Plato, Repub. B: X. 615. D. I cannot see why dy Fe should be 
retained (as one of the exceptions to the rule against &y with Fut. 
Indic.), when the sense plainly requires dy7j52.—i.e. ‘neque adest 
neque adfuturus est ex inferis.” The speakers have ascended, Ardizus 
is still below, cp. 615. E. . 
Plato, Philebus, 17. B. zat obddéy Exépw ye tobtwy x.t.d. It has 
been objected to this reading, that the sense requires odderépw. I 
am inclined to think that the original was oddevt tépw, and that the 
letter « has suffered elision at the hands of the copyist. 
Tbid. 18. B. py ext ro & edOd¢ GAR ew apiOpov ad twa zd7ZOo07 
éxactoy &yovtd tt xatavosty, tehevtay te ex zdvtwy eis Ey. Stallbaum 
says that all the MSS. agree in exhibiting this reading ; however, as 
he finds it unintelligible, he concludes that there is a mistake some- 
where. He would read éxdorote, in which sense some commentators 
have wished to explain éxacrov. If it does not savour too much of 
presumption, I should say that the error arose from their not per- 
ceiving that &xacrov was in construction with dp6yév—not with 
mi700s. I consider zA7Od¢ tt as the object of eyovta, and the sentence 
TARO0s Exactov yovtd Tt aS a parenthesis ; 2xactvv then would mean 
each of the subordinate genera—(“ each” of the “two or three, &e.,” 
16. D.). The rest of the construction might be explained thus: 
Oet Bhézovta . . . xatavoety adtdy (tov dptOudy scil. drdca). 
Ibid. 19. C. dara xadov pev to Ebprayta x.t.4. Tam surprised that 
Stallbaum has not noticed a manifest reference to the old proverb, 
“primus qui ipse consulit, &e.” Cp. Hdt. VIL. 16; Sophocles, Anéig. 
v. 720; Livy, XXIT. 29. 
Ibid. 20. D. dyayxardtatoy. The meaning of this word is obviously 
“‘the least one could say.” This sense of dyayxardtatos is frequently 
lost sight of, e.g., in the Gorgias 505. E., where (as I pointed out, in 
the Journal of the Canadian Institute for 1872) the idea conveyed 
