AiKaviKO'i A070? m Enripides. 13 



'Pficris OF lOLAOS, 181-231. 



1. YlpOOLflLOV, I8I-I83: 



dva^, U7rdp)(^ei. /uiev to'S' ev rfj cry ')(6ovi, 

 elirelv aKovaai r ev /jiepet Trdpea-rl /xot, 

 KouSei^ /x' ctTTcoaei 7rp6cr6ev uiairep dXkoOev. 



2. Ilpo'^eo-i? omitted. 



3. Ilt'o-Tei?, 184-219 : 



a. 184-189 {ia-fiev). We have nothing in common with 

 this man, for he is Argive, but we are not, since we have 

 been banished. 



/3. 189-196. Does banishment from Argos mean from all 

 Greece .■* Not from Athens, at any rate. The Athenians 

 will not drive away the children of Herakles through fear of 

 the Argives. 



7. 197-204. If your arguments succeed, I declare that 

 Athens is no longer free. But I know their nature, — they 

 would rather die ; for honor with the brave is considered of 

 greater importance than life.^ 



S. 205-213. You ought to save these children because 

 your father and theirs were born of first cousins,^ hence you 

 are related. 



e. 214-219. Besides relationship they have another claim 

 upon you. Their father once rescued your father from the 

 murky depths of Hades, as all Greece can testify. 



1 Cf. Plato, Krito 49 C, D ; Apol. 28 B-D. 



2 V. 211. Nauck reads i^avexpioo for MSS. aiTave\pii>3. The correction of Reisig 

 airavexj/Mv (= e| avTapexpluv) is much better. 



The relation of Demophon to the children of Herakles is as follows: 



PeLOPS ^HlPPODAMIA 



Pittheus Lysidike 

 I I 



Aithra Alkmena 

 I I 



Theseus Herakles 

 I I 



Demophon Herakleidai 



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