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db^r t g? cp. KenyorTs reading). Then the other: "Why doest thou 

 want once more to see Jason utterly broken down before thine 

 enraged eyes (eiGoqav og gol ya/uovg I wraxrjGev), do calm thy 

 furious look". That must be the old nurse who is addressing 

 her. But Medea adheres to her purpose: xovxo yaq Tcqa%$i]GexaL 

 (Ken.) y.al 6^ xa xéxva v.ouva vujv o/,tov xxevtu. The answer itCog ov 

 '/.araax^v at, vooelv ecpv xéxvoLg I cpovéa. But Medea con- 

 tinues: the poisonous rpaqog that is concealed {v.iy.qvf.i(.tévcov, 

 eod-^xtov se.) in the interior of the house must be brought 

 ev. xwv åco/Liårcov and then to herself: d-a q gel, ipvyrj, yoqf.ir]Gov 

 ^QedtGf-iévi] elg eqyov, oi yaq vvv ye del ■aay.wv httiv. 



2. 



The Antiope of Euripides. The new fragments are published 

 in the Cunningham Memoirs VIII (1891) by Mahaffy ; corrections 

 and supplements by Blass in Neue Jahrbucher fur Philologie und 

 Pådagogik vol. 145 (1892) p. 578 sqq. 



Fr. A. The speaker seems to have maintained that alone, 

 without help from outside or above, the brothers can neither 

 resist nor escape the approaching enemy, but if Zeus is their 

 father, he will be sure to come and help them or he will be 

 sure to destroy Lycus, taking revenge on him through his sons: 

 aXX 3 eiTteq i]f.t\ag Zevg eyévvrjGev rcaxrjq, I Gcpalel (cpdeqel) fieO- 

 fjfiaiv t' ey&qbv avdqa xtGexai. L. 4 cp. Herc. fur. 1294. L. 9 

 cp. Androm. 694 oxav xqbnata rtoXef-iiiov GxijGi] (oxqaxbg se). 

 L. 12 sq. alåto x\ooovxov (.irj yaf.ielv {.tev rjåéajg, I itqodbvx\a d 3 

 elvai • • ■ or ra XoL7t\a å 3 siv ai if not ejteix\a with Blass. L. 14 

 deolg y oi y.a]Xbv xbd 3 or gol y ov xa]Xbv xbd 3 aXXh ov(.if.iayelv 

 rpi/.oLg (cp. Hippol. 914 ov fxijv cp LX o v g ye yxcxl /.laXXov ■») cpiXovg I 

 •/.qimxiLV åixatov Gag, rcaxsq, ovGnqa^iag, Or. 665 xovg cpllovgl ev xolg 

 y.cc/.oig yqrj xolg cplXoiGiv wcpeXelv). L. 15 I have thought of qo7t]i]v, 

 Aafi]^, xéyv]rjv, fio]r]v (cp. Aesch.), and 7téd]rjv. Diels may have 

 hit the point with 7tay]t]v. L. 17 has Blass deciphered as 

 the most probable reading • EJ ■ • 2. It would be difficult to 



