162 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE 



martinet that, according to Livy, when his troopers applied to him 

 for some relaxation of their discipline, he replied : " Yes, I will 

 relieve you from the obligation of giving a pat to you,r horse's back 

 when you dismount." The words are "«e nihil reviissum dicatis, 

 remitto, ' inquit,' ne utique dorsum demulceatis, quum ex equis 

 descendetis." If any one, who has ever ridden without a saddle, will 

 recall his first instinctive movement on dismounting, equo lassus ah 

 indomito, he will have no doubt either as to the nature of the action 

 or the owner of the dorsum. 



Plato, Eejyub. B. X. 615. D. I cannot see why av i^^si should be 

 retained (as one of the exceptions to the rule against dy with Fut. 

 . Indie. j, when the sense plainly requires dvTJ^ei — i.e. " neque adest 

 neque adftdurus est ex inferis." The speakers have ascended, Ardiseus 

 is still below, cp. 615. E. 



Plato, Philebus, 17. B. y.dX oudev iripo) ys rourtov x.r.X. It has 

 been objected to this reading, that the sense requires oud£rip<jj. I 

 am inclined to think that the original was oudsv} iripio, and that the 

 letter i has sufiered elision at the hands of the copyist. 



Ibid. 18. B. /xij ^-j TO Iw eodix: dXk^ i;:' apid/xov au riva ■kXyjOo-^ 

 ixaffToy e^ovrd re xara-joslv, reXsurdv re ix ndvrojv ej? sy. Stallbaum 

 says that all the MSS. agree in exhibiting this reading ; however, as 

 he finds it unintelligible, he concludes that there is a mistake some- 

 where. He would read kxdarore, in which sense some commentators 

 have wished to explain ixaffzov. If it does not savour too much of 

 presumption, I should say that the error arose from their not per- 

 ceiving that sxaffTov was in construction with dpcdfj-ov — not with 

 nlr^Ooq. I consider TtXrjdoq ri as the object of e/ovra, and the sentence 

 TzXrjdo'^ sxaffTov e^ovrd ri as a pai'enthesis ; ixaarov then would mean 

 each of the subordinate genera — (" each " of the " two or three, &c.," 

 16. D.). The rest of the construction might be explained thus : 

 de} ^Xi~ovra . . . xaravoelv abrbv (rov dpiBpuv soil. oTzoaa). 



Ibid. 19. C. dXXd xaXbv fikv rb ^up-navra x.r.X. I am surprised that 

 Stallbaum has not noticed a manifest reference to the old proverb, 

 "primus qui ipse con-sulit, <&c." Cp. Hdt. VII. 16; Sophocles, Antig. 

 V. 720 ; Livy, XXII. 29. 



Ibid. 20. D. dyayxaioTarov. The meaning of this word is obviously 

 " <Ae least one could say." This sense of d'^ayxaiuTaroz is frequently 

 lost sight of, e.g., in the Gorgias 505. E., where (as I pointed out, in 

 the Joui'nal of the Canadian Institute for 1872) the idea conveyed 



