504 RESTORATION OF A VERSE IN SOPHOCLES. 



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When I flrft read this chorus, I expected at the af- 

 terifm, which denotes the feventh verfe of the anti- 

 ftrophe to be loft, a^broken conftruclion or a fudden 

 transition of fentiment. But, on pairing my eye over 

 it again, I found the fenfe to be fo coherent, that I 

 could not fqueeze in an exclamation of only too ana- 

 paefts. Neither is there in the fcholiaft, who is here 

 pretty circumftantial, any word that gives one room to 

 ^uppofe the omiffion of a verfe. Triclinius, in his dif- 

 fertation on the metre of Sophocles, contents himfelf 

 with faying, that the antiftrophe, as well as the ftrophe, 

 contains twelve verfes, without fcanning any of them 

 into feet. I therefore wrote the chorus on a piece of 

 paper, verfe for verfe, marked the longs and the 

 fhorts, and compared them. 



The lixth verfe of the antiftrophe was in complete 

 accordance with the feventh of the ftrophe, when I 

 had brought down to this latter the lafl fyllable of 

 Bapua££». I fet it in the place of the ftar, and went 

 back to fill up its vacancy. 



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