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Demosthenes Pliil., I. § 15 : tii) xu>Xba)v e? m; aXXoq x. t. X. The 

 speaker is here generally supposed to say that he offers no opposition, 

 &c., but this creates a difficulty; as we should expect ob xcoXuwv in this 

 case and not iJ.rj, may we not take it as a nominative absolute ? " unless 

 whoever else has any grand proposition, forbids one to speak;" e? 

 rev u-XXoq X, T. X., standing in the place of (verhi causa) Alay^Lvriq. 



Euripides, Phcenissse, 583: Sbo xaxh aTteudstq rixvov Ketvcuv aripead'ai, 

 Ttbvdi t' h /jjatp TzscrsTv. Paley says that the sense is much the same 

 as our " between two stools," but does not explain or illustrate this 

 somewhat unusual and difficult construction. It seems best to explain 

 it as the editors do the passages, Aristoph : Aves, 187 : ^v iiiam 

 drJTZoudev arjp iari yTjt;, and Acharn: 433, xai ixecvcDV being omitted 

 as one of the points between which a thing is described as lying. 



Cicero I., Catil. c. vi. : MSS. give multo post. Editors have altered 

 into multa post, d^c. The MSS. reading inulto post seems to point to 

 an original midtis. The change from multis to midto, by a copyist 

 who did not see that multis depended upon coonmissa, is very natural. 

 This reading suits the context much better, if we take commissa in 

 sense " entrusted as secrets." 



Lucretius v. 753 : A terris altum caput ohstruere eL Munro takes 

 altum caput to be the sun's head, but finds a difficulty in ohstruere, to 

 which he is obliged to give an unusual sense. If, however, we take 

 a terris " on the side of the earth," " from the quarter of the earth," 

 *'cf 'ah occasu' 'a tergo,' &c., we shall get rid of this difficulty: altum 

 caput will then refer to the moon : " and on the earthward side to 

 raise her head on high in front of him (the sun), opposing an opaque 

 orb," &c. 



