6 James T. Lees, 



in this drama, although it contains no long rhetorical f)7]aet<;, 

 some of the short speeches approach very near to forensic 

 discussion. Cf. especially vv. 597-608, 674-686, 687-715.^ 



In the treatment of the rhetorical speeches a brief synopsis 

 of the play has been given as far as the scene in which the 

 discussion occurs ; this scene is then treated more fully with 

 a synopsis of the speeches of the plaintiff and defendant. 

 The speeches have been divided, so far as it was found prac- 

 ticable, into the four divisions Trpooifjuov, irpoOeai^, Triarei^i, 

 67riA,0709, which every complete rhetorical speech contains.^ 



The discussion is often referred to by the word ajcov,^ just 

 as it is used to denote a trial or action at law in the orators. 



In Herakl. 116, before the formal p/]a€i<; are delivered, the 

 word is used : 



7rpo9 TOVTOV dyctiv apa TOvSe tov Xoyov 

 fjidXicrT av eiij. 



In Orest. 491, it occurs in the first line of the first pr](n<i : 



Trpo? TovS' ciycbv av ri ao(f)ta<; elrj irepi ; 



Also after ten lines of the first p/crt? have been delivered 

 in Andr. 328 : 



hovXr) Karearri's eh ajMva. 



In Her. Main. 131 1, it occurs in the lines of the chorus after 

 the first pr]cn<; : 



ovK eariv aXXov Sat/xovcov ayayv oSe 

 7] T^9 Ato? SdfMapro^. 



It occurs at the beginning of the second /3?7o-t9 in Hiket. 427 : 



eVet S' dycova koX cru rovS' rjycovLCTQ) 

 aKov • a/JLLWav yap av 7rpou6T]Ka<i Xoycov. 



1 The latter may perhaps be divided into irpoolfxiov 687, 688, Tria-reis 689-707, 

 iwiXoyos 708-715. 



2 See Aristotle, Ars. Rhet. Ill, 13 fg. ; Dion. Hal., Ars. Rhet. c. X fg. ; De 

 Lys. ludic. 17, 18, 19; Volkmann, Die Rhetorik der Griechen und Rijmer, ch. 36; 

 Rossler, Rhetorum Antiquorum de Dispositione Doctrina, p. 30 fg. 



3 This word is used in Aristophanes to refer to the formal contest in comedy. 

 See A. J. P. VIII, 183 (note). 



