Some Notes on Blaydes' Nubes. 47 



Therefore, wliile it must be admitted that the aorist im- 

 proves the metre in tetrameters, Blaydes' rule, (Aves. 088 

 addenda), "'Scribendum ut in libris -/""Ti/cr£," or Nub. 575 

 not. crit.), "Quare non nimis festinanter corrigendum 

 -lu'tnnyz-z"' is a safe one. He has not, however, followed it 

 himself. 



Vs. 592. eira (fi'i.corrrirt Zdoznu rtO ^'iXio zo'j <Lhyi\ia — . 



Few will follow Blaydes here in accepting from Lys. 680 

 the verb iyy.aihiiiiiM'^zvj and rewriting the present passage thus: 



lyxafhipnofFriZZ zanznu \ zu ^n/jr^ zuv ahyi'ja^ 



although the phrase (ftiunr^ zov aoyha zaj ^''j/.io does not occur 

 elsewhere. 



c-'./iov'^ from its very unusualness must be the true reading, 

 and the question is only whether we should read zd) ^nkw or 



y zuj :;'j/.iu. 



In view of Eq. 394 ^v c'J/w orjirac, Eq. 705 ;> zw ^ohp drj^ro), 



and similar passages, it would seem that we must follow 

 Elmsley in inserting the preposition in that phrase even where 

 the MSS. do not have it, c. g. Eq. 367 "T"v trk t^au) zw ^>j).w. Eq. 

 1049 is interesting; there the MSS., (R. excepted, which has 

 Ixi'uoffz), have, 



Ziiozo'^'. 

 oj^tra'. <i i/.i).zoz -v^zetrupiyyu) ^o/m. 



The preposition is found in the quotation in the Etym. 

 Mag. p. 346, 18. Evidently the scribes mistook t/.i/.su' ^v for 

 ixihu-'^, and then the v was lost before the consonant. 



From this analogy iv may be expected in our phrase; so 

 Sauppe, Dind., Kock, Mein. and Elmsley on Ach. 348. 



I am inclined, however, with Teutf. and Kaehler, to regard 

 the dative as causal. 

 Vss. 743 ff.— 



k'y^ (izpiija y.a\i a-<ifif^<i zt zwv xir^/idztov^ 

 d<fe\^ ur:t/J}t y.aza zi^-y y^mij.Tj-^ ~d).v^ 

 xhrjrTDv au<'fC'i anzo xai !^uy(6Ui>'.f7<>'^. 



The variants are dzpi/m'i, many MSS., and -«;.«j for ~d/.t> 



R.S.V. R. has also xuza for xaza. 



The passage can hardly be sound as it stands, although it 

 is kept by Bergk, Dind., Mein., TeuflP. Bergk suggested xat 



