3 
6 
It isstated, from the. register kept at 
the Royal Society, that the south-west 
wind blows more upon an average in 
¢ach month of. the year than any other, 
particularly in July and Angust: that the 
north-east’ prevails during January, 
March;,April, May, and ‘June; and. is: 
most unfrequent in February, July, Sep- 
tember, 
eccurring more frequently from Novem- 
ber to March; and less so in Septem- 
ber and October than in any other 
months. 
year, do not correspond wit this state- 
ment; and. the difference may perhaps 
account for the quantity of rain fallen; 
for the few hot days, and in short, for 
that smfall share of summer weather, 
i was open to every person’s s notice. 
ghgate, Your’s, &e. 
Jan. 3 3, 1810. J.J. 
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For the Menthly Magazine. 
MANUSCRIPT Of ESCHYLUS'S TR AGELTES, 
entitled, thé “ seven at THEBES,” and 
“ PROMETHEUS.” 
and December: the north-west. 
Qur observations for the:last. 
Manuscript of the Seven at. Thebes,” 
ex learned French critic, Mons. - 
Vauvilliers, has’ discovered in the 
ee at Paris, formerly called the 
Bibliotheghe du Roi, a MS. copy of the 
Seven at Thebes, and Pr omeiheus, by Ms- 
ehyt (No.2785) on which he has offered 
theitollowing remarks : 
In verse 13,. of the “ Seven. at Thebes, 
thejparticle we 1S suppressed— 
Q'par t *Eyovd Exaoov, Hig Te TUL TEMES, 
97 
and in the manuscript: epay exov8" Exccev 3 
but the omission of this letter gives some 
order to a phrase, which before ~ had 
none ; and M. Brunk has found the same 
reading in other MSS. and adopted it. 
At verse 250, a fault occurs, it must. 
bé owned, yet it points out a good reading: 
Tare yap Apug Bérueron pObien Ppordy.. 
F'Our editions have $4 3 it ‘is’ not, 
however, with fright, but with carnage, 
that! Mars is glutting ‘himself; 
reading 9%, which another ./MS.’ pre- 
‘sents. This reading mav_ be easily 
recognized. i in. the word -¢8, as found 
in the. MS. before us, and the faults 
of ‘different copies ‘often vield this 
advantage to attentive readers.’ M. 
Brunk also has found god in some MSS, 
~ and has printed it accordingly. 
But the reading of y#9v, in verse 253, 
‘does not here appear. One edition has 
Srives wWirmicpea OnFev, Hs ranAupevey. 
The Latin translators have rendered 
can wadsy pons signify ? 
atid’ this: 
consideration’ induces’ usto prefer “the: 
this passage as: follows: ‘* Gemit civitas 
a terra tanguam circumclusa 3” as if 
they had found the word ye. It ap- 
pears, indeed, that the scholiast read 
the word so: céeras, (says! hé,) § ipertpg. 
yi. The word: d:3ey do@s not seem* to 
have aby. meaning: yd, on the con- 
trarv, expressés very well that dead 
sound occasioned by the trampling of a 
multitude of men on the earth, and which 
is prolonged to. a greater or lesser dis- 
tance; but instead of translating it, 
“* Tanguam eircumclusa:;” it should ya- 
ther be, ‘‘ wtpote sub ‘pedibus circum 
sese-fundentuim;- for the poet did» not 
mean to describe the grief of an afflicted 
people, but the actual noise which ane 
nounces the approach of enemies towards 
the ramparts. 
Verse 487 offers” an interesting varia- 
tion. In cur editions we read, 
Esevy omar 84 rwde ev eve cgi 
bw TDOmay EpAG'v Ooeewy. 
€* Opto quidem huic’ succedere defensor 
mearunn domorum.”—=Thiis° dative rade, 
‘which is of the “third: ‘person, 
_cord with the vocative, mfouceye- 
caniiot ac- 
The 
manuscript before us reads race, which 
forms¢a very perfeet sense—* Upie 
quidem in hee certamine ;”—and it’ sub- 
joins, at the end of the verse, ce; whith 
renders the phrase complete, 
Emtvyoiuas Oy Trade peey euTuyey oe. 
As to the measure of the verse, it dem 
‘pends on too many combinaticns to be- 
come the object of these concise remar ks. 
It mist, however, be observed, that 
in-verse~ 649, Eteoctes ‘speaks of Ams 
pliaraiis, w ho: notwithstanding his piety, 
was, for have associated with the wick- 
ed, to perish along with them: 
"Aor ioirk CULLpRIY EEE: 
Dpacuc ovary aypert Ppevay Bia y 
Teer. wopemny thy praxpay waniy peoraty ¥ 
Atos Gexo ovnos cuyne adennd oInceres, 
So it is found in our editions.» What 
Fhuse words 
are translated by rever(i, and that is cer= 
tainty the sense of waaw. But the army 
of Argos did not make any criminal efs 
forts for returning:—the crime with, 
wg Eteocles reproaches them Is, athe 
f having come to attack uljustly the 
sits of Thebes. Tn fact, tlie manuscript 
reads won. M. Boe very ‘properly 
condemns, as ‘ridiculous, the he a 
tion of ‘the scholiast, w hot explains these 
words by the great Journey towards the 
infernal regions ; but, in applying ‘them 
to the city ‘of ‘Taebes itseif, nothing €an 
be more clear thaii the fheaning 2" Con- 
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