ON ELKIP. IFH. TAIR. Yss. 3S1 tf. 



By J^UGUSTUS T. MUKKAY. 



Ill iio«T~i>yzlii yaft zintriv snzoyrsfTTipin^ 

 wjTdt y.a/.wi ~/;af c/'-Tc^ oh (fiiii-^ohni'/ zo' 



So the MSS. save for Diiidorf's certain correction of 



jjViVw/jtTjv for riyJh')ij.riV. 



Seidler changed the /a/.w^ of vs. 858 to z«/.«>9, and para- 

 lih rases thus: "'Infelices, qui ipsi aliquando felices fuerunt, 

 felicioribus se non bene volunt.'' He is followed by Dindorf, 

 Nauck, Paley. and Jerram, (of the editions I have at hand). 

 Schoene and Flagg keep the /.ay.ux;. which Schoene explains 

 as causal, — ''weil sie unglticklich geworden sind." That 

 seems, however, impossible. Nor will many follow Wecklein 

 in reading roirrt dunruytnTiiun^ and z«za)9, and interpreting, " Die 

 Unglucklichen m^inen es nicht gut mit den noch Ungliick- 

 licheren wenn sie selber Leid erfahren haben." 



The objection to Seidler's rendering is, to my mind, two- 

 fold. In the first place, we need a T^u-i or -«/«;; so that 

 Dindorf's -d/Mi /.ahlx; is an improvement; or, better, Rauch- 

 enstein's aozui -«r eu zpd^avTsg; and secondly, in what respect 

 are Orestes and Py lades more fortunate than Iphigenia? 

 They hdd hem, it is true, but now that they are brought face 

 to face with death, their lot is not an enviable one. If in 

 Iphigenia's eyes death was preferable to her state, it was an 

 alternative she could at any time have chosen. 



The reference must be to those who have been more fortu- 

 nate but who have fallen into adversity, (as have Orestes 

 and Pylades). The envy and bitterness caused by their for- 

 mer good fortune steel the hearts of the ouirru/jh^ against 

 them. 



