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4. 'ETTiXoyo?, 226-231.1 



I beg of you do not refuse to receive the children of 

 Herakles under your protection. Be to them a friend, father, 

 brother, even master ; for anything is better than to fall into 

 the power of the Argives. 



riio-Teis OF KOPREUS. IKo-xeis OF lOLAOS. 



a. 139-143 answered a. 184-189. 

 /3. 144-146 " /3. 189-196. 



S. 153-174 " 7- 197-204. 



7. 147-152 is too weak an argument to require an answer. 



5. 205-213, 6. 214-219, are independent arguments of 

 lolaos, which prove to be the strongest. 



The decision of the judge is given in a few words (vv. 236, 



237) : 



rpiacral fi dvajKci^ovcn av/xcfiopd^ oSoi, 



'loXae, Tov^ crou? fir] Trapcoaaadac ^evov<i • ^ 



Demophon decides in favor of the suppliants for three 

 reasons : 



1. Vv. 238, 239. On the ground of religious obligation. 



2. Vv. 240, 241. On the ground of relationship and grati- 

 tude. 



3. Vv. 242-246. The honor of Athens demands it. 



At V. 250, he turns to Kopreus and bids him return and 

 tell Eurystheus the courts are open for him to settle his 

 claims by law, but he cannot use force. Then follows a rapid 

 cut and thrust between Demophon and Kopreus in a ari'x^o- 

 fivOia of twenty verses (252-272). This form of dialogue 

 generally closes such long discussions. At the close of the 

 (TTixo/Ji'Vdla the two disputants come so near to blows that 

 the chorus interferes and bids Kopreus depart (v. 273 fg.). 



^ Vv. 220-225 ^""s doubtless spurious. Vv. 221, 222 have evidently been taken 

 from vv. 97, 98 of this play. Dindorf suspected vv. 223-225, and remarked that 

 the words /SX^i/'oi' irpbs avrovs ^X^xpov (225) are taken from Alkest. 390. 



- V. 237. Nauck, 3d ed., reads \6yovs for ^ivovs. 



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