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 ALCESTIS 
 
 OF 
 
 EURIPIDES, 
 
 ATITH 
 
 NOTES 
 
 THE USE O 
 
 TATES. 
 
 By T. D. WOOLSEY, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN YALE COLLEGE. 
 
 THIRD EDITION, REVISED. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. 
 
 1841. 
 
I I 
 
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1837, by 
 
 James Munroe and Company, 
 
 in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE: 
 THOMAS G. WELLS, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
PA 3175 
 AS" 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 | The Alcestis has a high rank both for style and subject 
 among the plays of Euripides. Its style places it in the class 
 with the Medea, Hippolytus, and Heraclidae, which were 
 probably older than the other extant pieces of their author. 
 Of these four plays, Elmsley says, in his notes on the Argu- 
 ment of Medea (p. 69. ed. Oxf.), " Numeros habent severi- 
 ores et puricres, a quorum u-/.qi>°hu absunt caeterae omnes, 
 alias quidem propius, ut Hecuba, alias vero longius, ut 
 Orestes," And it is agreed, I believe, that in those tragedies 
 of Euripides, which are undoubtedly his later ones, there 
 may be discovered negligence of composition, want of sim- 
 plicity, especially in choral parts, and a style very remote 
 from the severity of Sophocles. But the simplicity of the 
 Alcestis must, I think, strike even the careless reader ; and 
 the lyric parts have an elegant sweetness about them, which 
 can hardly be paralleled by those of any other play. 
 
 The subject of this play presents us with an uncommon 
 example of self-devotion and of conjugal love, and recalls to 
 the mind those words of St. Paul, fitted to awaken hallowed 
 thoughts in every breast, — " Perad venture for a good man 
 some one would even dare to die." " On the score of beau- 
 tiful morality," says A. W. von Schlegel, " there is none of 
 the pieces of Euripides so deserving of praise as Alcestis. 
 Her determination to die, and the farewell which she takes 
 of her husband and children, are represented with the most 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 overpowering pathos." Others express similar opinions. 
 Thus Racine, in the preface to his Iphigenie, speaks of 
 the scene" which opens at v. 244, as " marveilleuse." 
 And George Buchanan has the following words in the 
 preface to his metrical version of this play, addressed to 
 Margaret, sister of Henry the Second, king of France : 
 " Est orationis genere leni et sequabili, et, quod Euripidis 
 proprium est, suavi : parricidii vero et veneficii et reliquo- 
 rum, quibus aliae tragcedise plense sunt, scelerum nulla pror- 
 sus hie mentio, nullum omnino vestigium. Contra vero, 
 conjugalis arnoris, pietatis, humanitatis, et aliorum officio- 
 rum adeo plena sunt omnia, ut non verear hanc fabulam 
 comparare cum Iibris eorum philosophorum, qui ex professo 
 virtutis prsecepta tradiderunt ; ac nescio an etiam prseferre 
 debeam." Milton alludes to this play of his favorite author, 
 in the opening lines of the sonnet on his deceased wife : 
 
 '■ Methought I saw my late espoused saint 
 Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, 
 Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, 
 Ransomed from death by force, though pale and faint." 
 
 The young student, however, is not to suppose that this 
 piece is a perfect composition. In the Notes I have 
 attempted to point out what seemed to me to be the chief 
 defects of particular scenes : — here it may be well to ob- 
 serve, that the selfishness of Admetus in permitting his wife 
 to die in his stead, which is the ground-work of the plot, 
 destroys our complacency in his character, and renders his 
 grief for her suspicious and uninteresting. This is indeed 
 an obvious and a very serious defect. But the character of 
 Admetus will appear a little less selfish, if we bear in mind, 
 that the arrangement, to have some one die for him was 
 made by Apollo ; that, when consent was once given, the 
 Fates were inexorable ; and that his life was more important 
 to his subjects than that of any one else. The poet himself, 
 if he could speak, would perhaps give a different answer. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 He would say that, like his great rival Sophocles, he did not 
 look upon his plots in all their bearings upon character, and 
 in their connexion with proprieties and probabilities. off the 
 stage ; but that he regarded them as detached portions of 
 human history, concerning which no one asked- how they 
 carne to pass, but was willingly hurried along by their 
 powerful current. Otherwise, he would say, even so well 
 contrived a work as the CEdipus Tyrannus must be con- 
 demned as improbable. But, while we allow some weight 
 to this defence, it is still singular, that he, who could re 
 proach Admetus by the mouth of his father for his selfish- 
 ness, should not have felt this defect in his plan, and have 
 given a different turn to the play. Another fault is the 
 obtuseness of Hercules in being so easily persuaded into 
 the belief, that it was a stranger, and not Alcestis, for whom 
 the family were mourning upon his arrival. The poet is 
 determined, that he shall not understand the nature of the 
 case, simple as it is, in order that by the strength of his 
 mighty body he may more than make amends for the devia- 
 tions from propriety caused by the dulness of his mind. 
 The more general defects are those which appear in almost 
 all the works of Euripides ; — want of dignity and of regard 
 to the ideal in character and situation, which his two great 
 predecessors so much respected, a rhetorical and sophistical 
 taste, a clumsily contrived prologue, and frigidity now and 
 then amid passages of great feeling. Other defects, such 
 as verbosity, want of connexion between the parts, irrele- 
 vance of the choral songs, are not found in this piece ; and 
 in these points it stands superior to almost all the plays of 
 Euripides. 
 
 With regard to the time when this play was exhibited, our 
 information formerly was not very precise. So much only 
 was known, that it must have been acted in or before the 
 year 425 B. C, since an obvious parody upon vv. 367, 368, 
 b is found in the Acharnenses of Aristophanes, which was 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 given to the public in that year. But the publication in 
 1834, by Wm. Dindorf, of a new part of the second ar- 
 gument found in a Vatican manuscript, renders all other 
 helps in determining the date needless. We there find that 
 it was acted when Glaucinus (called Glaucides by Diodor. 
 Siculus) was Archon ; that is, in the second year of Olymp. 
 85, or in 429 B. C. ; and thus it takes its place as the earliest 
 among the extant works of Euripides, having been written 
 eleven years before Hippolytus, and eight before Medea. 
 The new portion is now (1841) incorporated with the rest 
 of the argument, and in the notes some of the results of this 
 discovery, which bear upon the nature of Alcestis, and upon 
 the history of the Greek drama in general are briefly point- 
 ed out. 
 
 The text of the present edition has been chiefly printed 
 after that contained in William Dindorf 's " Poetse Scenici 
 Graeci," which appeared at Leipzig and London in 1830. 
 This text differs in about twenty instances from that con- 
 tained in Lewis Dindorf 's edition of Euripides, which was 
 published at Leipzig in 1825, and exhibited, in the opinion 
 of the learned Hermann, a better text than any previous 
 edition. The text given by Matthiae in his edition of Eu- 
 ripides, and that of Monk's Alcestis, have been consulted 
 throughout, and in about twenty instances preferred. 
 
 The edition of this play prepared by James Henry Monk, 
 then professor of Greek at Cambridge, and since Bishop of 
 Gloucester, first appeared in 1816. The learned editor 
 made great improvements upon the text of Musgrave, but 
 in some instances followed perhaps too implicitly the canons 
 of the ancient Atticists, or of modern criticism, against the 
 weight of manuscript authority. Matthiae's text had already 
 appeared in 1813 ; but his critical notes on the Alcestis, 
 containing the best collection of various readings to be met 
 with, came out in 1823. Only then was it possible for 
 critics to judge of the testimony of Manuscripts, and this 
 
PREFACE. Vll 
 
 judgment has been ably passed by the Dindorfs in their 
 recent editions mentioned above. 
 
 The notes are more copious than they would have been, 
 had the study of the tragic poets been more widely diffused 
 hitherto, and been pursued under better auspices, in this 
 country. I have aimed, not only to illustrate the idiom 
 when rare, and the sense when doubtful, but also to notice 
 from time to time the disposition of the plot, and the char- 
 acter of the piece ; in order that the student may feel, that 
 his taste and sensibility, as well as his power of interpreting, 
 ought to be continually called into exercise. It was felt to 
 be important that minute points of grammar and idiom, 
 with which the advanced scholar is perfectly familiar, 
 should be noticed, because few students in this country 
 have access to the best books in this department of classical 
 learning. Among the editors, Monk and Matthiae have 
 been of very material assistance to me, as the Notes will 
 bear witness. Monk has faithfully availed himself of the 
 labors of those who went before him, having extracted 
 nearly all that is useful from the notes of Barnes, Musgrave, 
 and others ; and has brought to his work a knowledge of 
 tragic style worthy of the successor of Porson. Matthiae's 
 notes are mostly critical ; but now and then he touches a 
 point of interpretation, or of idiom, with that excellently 
 balanced judgment, and that knowledge of what others 
 have done, which distinguishes his Grammar also above 
 most aids to Greek study. 
 
 Since the first edition was prepared, I have seen the 
 notes of Wiistemann, in his reprint of Monk's Alcestis, and 
 those of Wakefield. The brief list of various readings 
 which appeared in the first edition has been omitted, as 
 being necessarily imperfect ; and the student, who desires 
 to ascertain the purity of the text, should consult the edition 
 of Matthias. The notes have been subjected to a very 
 thorough revision, and it is hoped are materially improved. 
 
VI J I 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 The metres are somewhat more correctly given ; but still 
 need the indulgence of those who have surmounted the 
 difficulties which wait upon this study. In conclusion, the 
 Editor would express the hope, that his feeble attempt in the 
 cause of Greek learning may not be without benefit to those 
 for whom it was made. 
 
 Yale College, New Haven, 
 February 20, 1837. 
 
 The editor gave his first edition of Alcestis to the public 
 in 1833, and another revised with care in 1837. Another 
 still being now called for, he has done what he could amid 
 pressing engagements, and in a short time, to make it some- 
 what less imperfect than its predecessors. In the preface, 
 the paragraph relating to the date of the play has been 
 changed for an obvious reason. A newly discovered portion 
 has been inserted in the Greek argument. The text has 
 been altered in about sixteen places, in conformity with the 
 views of critics and Manuscript authority. Finally, the 
 metres have been differently constituted in four or five places, 
 and a number of notes have been added for which the edi- 
 tor is indebted in great part to the edition with Hermann's 
 notes (Leipzig, 1824), to Pflugk's Gotha (1834), and Ma- 
 jor's (London, 1838). 
 
 Yale College, New Haven, 
 August 20, 1841. 
 
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 OEPAIIAINA. I 
 
 xal Zadav sltcslv xal ftavovcav sdxi cot. 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 xal 7i£s civ avzos xaxddvoi xs xal flksTtoi ; 
 
 OEPAIIAINA. / 
 
 r^S-q 7tgovco7trjs soxi xal xpv^oggaysL 
 
 xo P 2. 
 d> tAtj^ov, oias olos Sv dpagxdvsis. 
 
 OEPAIIAINA. 
 
 ovitco xod 3 oiSs ds(j7toxi]s, nglv dv 7tddjf. 145 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 sXnis fisv ovxsx* iaxl ccooaodai fiiov $ 
 
 OEPAIIAINA. 
 
 7ZS7zgcd[j,£VT] ydg r^isga [3id£sxou. 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 ovxovv sit* avij} ngdaasxai xd ngodcpoga ; 
 
 , OEPAIIAINA. 
 
 xoapos ?* sxoifios, w Gcps avvddyjst noais. 
 
 XO P 02. 
 
 l6xco vvv svxXsrjs ys xaxdavovpsvri 150 
 
 yvvrj x* dgtoxrf xcjv vcp* ijXico fxaxgS. 
 
 O EP All A IN A. 
 
 nas #' ovx dgiaxj] ; xis 8 * ivavxicodsxai ; 
 xl %gri ysviaOou xt\v V7zsg6s6krj{iivriv 
 yvvaixa ; Teas 8 ' dv [/.aXkov iv8si£aix6 xis 
 nodiv 7tgoxi[i(Q<j ' rj ftiXovd a vnsgdavsiv ; 155 
 
 xal ravza fxsv 8r) nac ' snioxaxai noXis ' 
 
io etp i n i a or 
 
 a 8* iv dofioig sSgdas &av[idasi xXvav. 
 
 insl ydg jjadsd 3 r^sgav xi\v xvg'iav 
 
 rjxovaav, vdaot Ttoxaixiois Xsvxov ygoa 
 
 iXovaax\ ix 8* sXovaa xsSgivav 86fiav 16C 
 
 iadjjxa xoa^iov i' sv7tgs7tas r\axr\aaxo, 
 
 xal axdaa ngoadsv saxias xaxijv^axo • 
 
 /Jsajzoiv \ — iyco ydg sgyo^iat xaxd %6ovos, — 
 
 navvaxaxov as ngoaitixvova' ahrjaofjiai, 
 
 xsxv* ogtpavsvaai xd[xd, xal xcp [isv cpiXijv 165 
 
 av'Csv^ov dkoyov, xrj 8i ysvvalov ttoaiv. 
 
 fi7]8 3 Sdrtsg avxcov ij xsxova J djtoXXvfiai 
 
 ■fravstv dcogovg 7iaT8as, dXX* sv8ai^iovas 
 
 iv yfj naxgcoa xsguvov ixnXijaai j3tov. — 
 
 ixdvxas 8i fiauovs oc xax 3 ^AS^xov 86^ovs 170 
 
 ngoarjXOs xd^saxsvjs xal itgooi^v^axo, 
 
 nxogBcov dnoayiX > ovaa ^vgaivi\g cpo6?]v, 
 
 cixXavaxos, doxsvaxxos, ov8s xovmov 
 
 xaxov [isOiGTrj ygaxos svst8ij yvaiv. 
 
 xdnsixa &dXauov iansaovaa xal Xs%os, 175 
 
 ivxavda 8y *8dxgvas^xal Xsysi xd8s, 
 
 y J2 Xsxxgov, svda Ttagdsvsi^ sXva* iyco 
 
 xogsvpax* ix tov8* dv8gos, ov d-vijaxo Ttsgi, 
 
 %aig 5 • ov ydg iyQalgco o \ drccoXsaag 8s {is 
 
 fiovyv ■ 7tgo8ovvai ydg 6* oxvovaa xal noaiv 180 
 
 frvrjaxa. as 8 ' aXXyf xt? yvvij xsxxrjasxai, 
 
 aacpgav fisv ovx dv pdXXov, svxvyijg 8* tarns,' — 
 
 xvvsl 8s ngoaixLxvovaa, nav 8s 8s{iviov 
 
 6(pdaX^toxsyxx(o 8svsxai nXi^^ivgiSt. 
 
 insl 8s noXXav 8axgvcov slysv xogov, 185 
 
 axsiysi 7tgov(07t)J5 sxixsaovaa 8s{ivicov, 
 
AAKH2TI2. 11 
 
 xal noXXd &d?»a i uov igiovo* ijieGxgdcprf, 
 
 xdggivjev avxijv avdis is xoixr\v ndkiv. 
 
 natSes Si niitXav Li^xgos i^gxijfiivot 
 
 exXaiov • 7) Si Xa^6dvovo* iv dyxakais 190 
 
 ijoizd'CeT* alXox* akXov, as &avovf.iev?p 
 
 ndvxss S* ixXaiov olxkxai xaxd Gxiyas 
 
 SsGTtoivav olxxstgovxes. ?J Si Ss^idv 
 
 7ZQOVT8LV ' SXaGXCp, XOVXIS TjV OVXCO XaXOS 
 
 ov ov ngoosLTts xal TtgoGeggijd)] 7id?itv. 195 
 
 xoiavx ' iv oixois sgxIv 'Adfiijrov xaxd. 
 xal xaxQavav x ° dv &Xs x \ ixcpvycov S J e/s i 
 togovxov d'ly os, ov nor D ov XsfaJGSxai, 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 ri Tiov Gxsvd^st xolglS D 3 ' ASpmos xaxots, 
 
 ia6?,ijs yvvaixos el Gxeg^dijvat Gcps %gij • 200 
 
 QEPAHAINA. 
 
 - / ft 
 
 xXaisi y\ dxoixiv iv %sgolv cpih^v £%cov, 
 
 xal (.17] TtgoSovvat XtGGExai, xd^ufyava 
 
 fyjxcov ' cpdivet ydg xal [lagaivexat vogco 
 
 uagEL^dvii Sij, X ei 9 oq a ^^ L0V fid,gos. 
 
 olios Si xacjxsg Guixgov iimviovG D m 205 
 
 fiksvjai Ttgos avyds (3ovA£zai xds i)?uov. 
 
 \_rhs ovTtox* avdis, d/.Xd vvv navvGxaxov 
 
 dxxlva xvxXov # D f-hiov TtgoGoipexai.] 
 
 aXX ' s i{ii xal gtjv dyyzXa nagovGtav ■ 
 
 ov ydg xt ndvxes sv (pgovovGt xoigdvois, 210 
 
 Sgx 3 iv xaxoiGtv ev^ievels itageGxdvai. 
 
 gv S* el jxaXaios SeGuoxats idiots (pikos. 
 
 II MIX PI IV. 
 
 la Zsv, xts dv nd nogos xaxcov 
 yivoixo xal Xvgls xvyas a jrdgsGxi xoigdvois ; 
 213 — 225. = 225— 237. 
 
 -r 
 
12 etp inu or 
 
 IIMIXOPION. 
 
 ej-sioi tls ; rj rifico Tgl%a, 214 
 
 xal [ikXava OTofyiov nknXav d[A<pi6a}.(d[iad ' rjdrj ; 
 
 HMIXOPION. 
 
 dijXa [iiv, (p'ikoi, Srjkd y \ dXX ' Ofxas 
 -freocdiv sv^cofisoda • &£ eov dvvafiis [isyidra. 
 
 HMIXOPION. 
 
 (hva% Ilaidv, 220 
 
 et-evgs {ir]%avdv tiv * '^tS/xijia xaxcov, 
 
 Ttogi^e dq 7t6gi£e * xal itdgos ydg 
 
 zad ' icpsvgss, xal vvv 
 
 Xvttjqlos ix &avdiov ysvov, 
 
 (poviov t 3 ditoTiavoov a Aibav. 225 
 
 HMIXOPION. 
 
 nanai, cpev, nanai, cpev. tea tea. 
 
 c5 Teal @£gr]Tos, oV en gagas dduagzos das dregsis. 
 
 II mi x OPION. 
 dg ' agia xal depayas rads, 
 xal nXkov r\ figo%cp digtjv ovgavtco neXdddai ; 230 
 
 HMIXOPION. 
 
 rdv ydg ov cpiXav, dXXd (piXxdxav 
 
 yvvalxa xaidavovdav iv if [tart tcdS 3 irtovjei. 
 
 HMIXOPION. 
 
 18 ov Zdov, 
 
 rjd^ ix doiicav drj xal nodis 7togev8Tai. 
 
 floaoov S, diivat-ov a &sgaca 235 
 
 %d&v, rdv dgidrav 
 
 yvvalxa fiagaivopivav vodcp 
 
 xaxd yds, %0oviov nag 3 a jiibav. 
 
 XOP 2. 
 ovnoTS cpr\da yd^iov svcpgatvsiv 
 Ttltov i) Xvtislv, xols zs Ttdgotdev 
 
AAKH2TI2. 13 
 
 rexpaigopevos xal zda8e xvyag 
 
 Xevaacov fiacHXetds, oans dgiaxris 240 
 
 dnkaxcov dXoyov ti\(j8* ddicoxov 
 
 toV emira ygovov fiioxevaei. 
 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 °A\ie xal cpdog apegas, 
 ovgdvuxi ts 8tvcu vecpekas 8go[Aaiov,—— 
 
 A A Mil T 02. i q%& 
 
 oga ae xafxe, ovo xaxcog neTtgayoxag, 245 
 
 ov8iv &eovg 8gdaavxag avO^ oxov &avu.< 
 
 AAKH2TI2, 
 
 yctid xe xal {leXddgcov cfxeyat 
 
 WfMptSlOL T£ XOLXat TlCiTgcpaS ' ItoXxOV ', 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 enaige (javrtfv, co tdXaiva, finq ngodcps ■ 250 
 
 Xioaov 8i rovg xgaxovvxag otxreigai ■&eovs. 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 
 oga 8ixconov bgco oxdcpog, vexvcov Si nogdf.ievg 
 eycov yeg* inl xovxco Xdgcov lC ijSr] xaXet • Tl 
 
 LieXXeig j f -fr\*$ tc dU 
 euelyov • dv xaxelgyetg rdSe — Tola cmegyopevos 
 
 rayvvet. 255 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 olllol ' mxgdv ys rrfvSe fiot vavx?.T(giav 
 I'tafas. a 8va8atf.iov f cla ndayo^ev. 
 
 AAKB2TI2. 
 
 ayei ^ ayei {ie rig, — ovy bgag; — vexvcov ig avXdv 
 V7t' > ocpgvcti xvavavyeat fiXencov nxegcoxog a Ai8ag. 
 xcge^eig; dcpeg. otav bSov d SeiXaiOTdxa ngoSaivco. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 oixjgdv cplkoMjiv, ex 8i tcov LidXidr'' ifxol 
 
 2 243 — 246. = 247 — 251. 
 
 252 — 258. =259 — 265. 
 
14 etp inu or 
 
 xal Ttcutflv, ols drj nkvQos iv xoiva toSs. 265 
 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 
 fiidsri fis [asOsts p 9 ij8r}. 
 xXivax ', ov odiva itoaiv • 
 nXyiaiov "A18 as ' 
 ctxoTta 8 9 in 9 bodoidi vv% icpsgitsi. 
 
 TSXVa TSXv\ 0VX8TI 9 270 
 
 OVX8TI dtf [idxiig OCpSv 80TLV. 
 
 XaigovTss, a zixva, rods (pdos bgmov. 
 
 AA MI1T0 2. 
 
 oi'fxoL i rod"* ettos Xvngov \dxova 
 
 xal navxos ifiol xhavdxov {iei'Cov. 
 
 [itf ngos ds &sav jlrjs [is ngo8ovvat y 275 
 
 [irj ngos TtaiScov, ovs ogcpavtsis, 
 
 dXX ' dva roXfia • 
 
 oov ydg cpdi[i8viis ovxkx ' dv eitjv • 
 
 iv dot 8 9 io^iiv xal £rjv xal [X7] • 
 
 arjv ydg cpiliav asSofisoOa. 279 
 
 AAKHST12. 
 
 v ^i8^yid\ — ogas ydg zdfid ngdyfiad 9 as £%£i, — 
 
 Xi^at &£Xco 6ol ngiv &av£tv a ftovhofiai. 
 
 iya (j£ TtQEofisvovGa xdvil jfjs ifirjs 
 
 ipv%rjs xaradTijcfaaa (pas rod 9 elctogdv, 
 
 frvrjoxa, nagov fioi fiij ftavscv vjtig osdsv, 
 
 dXV dvSgaTS 6%eiv GaooaXav ov rjdsXov, 285 
 
 xal 8apa vaisiv bX6iov ivgavviSi, 
 
 ovx qOiXiioa £rjv dnoonaadalod oov 
 
 $vv naiolv ogcpavoiOLv • ov8 9 icpeiodfirjv, 
 
 ii6iis £%ovGia Sag 9 , iv ols iisg7t6[.ir)v. 
 
 xatxoi 6 9 6 (pvdas %i} rsxovda irgovSodav, 290 
 
 xaXas [iiv aviois xardavsiv rptov fiiov, 
 
AAKH2TI2. 15 
 
 xa?.cog 8i aaaai naZ8a xevx?,£cog ftavstv. 
 
 Liovog ydg avzotg ){6da, xovxig iknlg i)v 
 
 aov xazOavovzog dXla cpizvasiv zixva. 
 
 xdyco x av e£i]v xal av zov koinov ygovov^ 295 
 
 xovx av Liovcodelg aijg 8duagzog soieves, 
 
 xal nal8ag agcpdvevsg. dX),d zavza lisv 
 
 &ecov ztg i^snga^sv ccad* ovzag Sy£lV. 
 
 eisv •■ av vvv llol zcovS' djioLivr^aac ydgiv ' 
 
 aiiijaouai ydg a' d^iav uiv ovtzozs, — 300 
 
 vjvyijg ydg ov8ev iazi ziLuazegov— 
 
 dixaia 8\ cog cpijaetg av ■ zovo8e ydg (pilels 
 
 ovy ijaaov rj "yco nai8ag. ditsg sv cpgovstg • 
 
 zovzovg dvdayov deojzozas iucov doficov, 
 
 xal lc?} ^jciyija^g zoiaSs aijzgvLdv rixvois, 305 
 
 ijztg xaxccov ova' iiwv yvvij ifdovco 
 
 zois aolai xduois natal ytlga ngoaGaXsi. 
 
 lu] Srjza dgdaijs zavza y\ alzoviiat a* iyco. 
 
 iyOgd ydg ?J ^movaa Mjzgvid z&xvoig 
 
 zoig TtgoaO ', iyi8vijg ov8iv rfiicozkga.f 310 
 
 xal nats iiiv dga-qv nazlg ' iyzi nvgyov iiiyav, 
 
 [oV xal TtgGuune xal 7Tgo(j£ggijdrf nd?uv.~\ 
 
 av 8' cb zkxvov liol ncog xogsvOijaet xaXcog ; 
 
 izolag zvyovaa av^vyov zco aS nazgi ; 
 
 Liij aoi ziv' alaygdv 7tgoa6aXovaa x?.?]8ova 315 
 
 i\6ijg iv dxufj aovg oiacpOsigj] yaiiovg. 
 
 ov ydg as uijiijg ovzs vvLiwzvaei nozi 
 
 ovz ' iv zoxoiai aolai ftagovvsl, zixvov, 
 
 7iagova\ EV ov8ev Lirjzgog sviisviazsgov. 
 
 8u ydg &av£Lv lis ■ xal z68 ' ovx ig avgtov 320 
 
 ov8 ' ig zgizijv uot iiijvog egyezai xaxov, 
 
 dXX ' avzix' iv zolg fitpcii' ovai "ki^oiiai. 
 
i6 exp in i j or 
 
 %aigovTes evcpgaivoidde • xal dol fiiv, nodi, 
 
 yvvaZyC dgidTtjv sdTi xofxrtddai Xa6etv, 
 
 vixlv Si, Ttatdeg, [xrjzgds ixjts(pvxivai. 325 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 ■&dgdsc 7tgo tovtov ydg Xiysiv ov% a^opac 
 dgddsi Ta8\ yvitsg firf cpgsveov dfiagrdvrf, 
 
 AJMHT02. 
 
 edxai rdd' Igtcli, [irj Tgidyg • ijtsl a\ iyco 
 xal Zcodav styov xal &avova i^iij yvvrj 
 
 [lOVI] XSxfajdSl, XOVTIS dvjl dOV 710TB 330 
 
 jovd 3 dv8ga vv^icpij OeaaaXlg Tigodcpdiy^eTai • 
 
 ovx iojiv ovzcog ovxe Ttaigos svyevovg 
 
 ovt udog dXXcog ixTtgsTZSOjdi^ yvv?j, 
 
 dXig di Ttatdeov tcqvS* bvijdtv sv/ofjiai 
 
 &£ots ysviddai • dov ydg ovx covrfpsda. 335 
 
 otdco Si Tiivdos ovx hr\atov to aov, 
 
 dXX eg t' dv atcov ov^iog dvT8%rj, yvvai, 
 
 dTvyav piv rj fi stixtsv, i%6aigav d* ifiov 
 
 TZaTsga ■ Xoycp ydg jjdav ovx igyco cpiXoi, 
 
 dv d 3 dvTLdovoa Tijg iprjs rd cpiXTUTa 340 
 
 vjv%rjg edcodag. dgd [xoi otsvuv ndga 
 
 Toidad 3 dtxagTavovTi dv^vyov didsv ; 
 
 navdco Si x&piovg i-v^iTtoTcov {F biicXlag 
 
 dTsepdvovg ts fiovddv &\ r\ xaT£L% i^wvg dopovg. 
 
 ov ydg tzot ovx dv (3ag6iTov &iyoi[i btl 345 
 
 ovT^dv (pgiv i!-aigoi[xi ngog AiSvv Xaxslv 
 
 avXov • dv ydg fiov Tigipiv it-etXov (3iov, 
 
 docprj Si %sigl textovcov dipag to dov 
 
 etxaddiv iv XkxTgoidiv ixTaOijdeTai, 
 
 <5 TTgodTtsdovfiac xal TtsgntTvddov %sgag 350 
 
AAKH2TI2. 17 
 
 cvoftcc xaXcov gov rqv cpifajv iv dyxdXais 
 
 do^co yvvalxa xaijisg ovx s/cov s/siv, 
 
 yjv/gdv [xiv, oipai, zsgxpiv, dXX 6 {teas fldgos 
 
 ipv/jjs anavTXoiiiv dv * iv d 3 bvsigaat 
 
 (poLiaod [i svcpgaivots dv. i?8v ydg cpiXos 355 
 
 xdv vvxil Xevogeiv, ovtlv dv nagfj %govcv. * 
 
 si S 3 3 Ogcpicos [ioi yXcoooa xal piXos Ttagrjv, 
 
 Sot 3 ?] xogtiv Arjfiiizgos ij xeiviis nodiv 
 
 v{ivoi6L XTiXyjoavxa o i<* a Aidov Xa6eiv, 
 
 xairjXdov dv, xai fi ovO 1 6 IJXovzcovos xvcov SCO 
 
 ovQ 3 ovnl xcotit) ipv/07io[i7Tos dv Xdgcov 
 
 £0%ov, nglv is (pas aov xazaazijaaL [3iov. 
 
 dXX 3 ovv ixecas ngocdoxa fi\ ozav &dvco 9 
 
 xal Scop iTOL k ua^\ cos avvoLxijaovad twt. 
 
 iv zaiciv avzais ydg a imaxtfyjeo xidgois 3G5 
 
 col zovcSe &sivat nXsvgd t ixzelvac nkXas 
 
 nXevgocCL tols cols * fiiids ydg &avcov tzozs 
 
 aov %cogls si'riv zrjs pcovyjs jziczrjs i\xo'& 
 
 x PO 2. 
 xai (.irjv iyco col tzsvOos cos cpiXos cpiXco 
 Xvirgov cvvoicco ziicds * xal ydg dl-ia. 370 
 
 A AKH2TI2. 
 
 co 7ratSss, avzol Bi] zdS 3 dcijxovcazs 
 nazgos Xkyovzos f-n) yafietv dXXr\v tiots 
 yvvalx ' icp ' Vfiiv, ptiS 3 dzipdcetv ipi. 
 
 AJMHT02. 
 xal vvv ys cprjfil, xal zsXevzvfico TaSs, 
 
 AAK II 2 T 12. 
 
 Inl tolcBs 7tai"Sas x iL Q° s ^| i^s oe%ov. 375 
 
 AAMIITO 2. 
 
 8£%0{xai } cpiXov ye dagov ix cpiXiis %£QOS» 
 
is exp mi j or 
 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 
 ctv vvv ysvov joiad 9 dvz ifxov [aiJttjq tstcvois* 
 
 A A Mil T 02. 
 
 noXXij y s avdyy.ii aov y ' d7tsajsgq{isvois. 
 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 
 (a tsxv\ ots gijv XQ-qv [t\ dnsgxo{iai xdzco. 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 ofyoi, tc dgdaco dijra aov [xovovpsvos ; 380 
 
 A A KH2TI2. 
 
 %govos {laXd^si a • ovdsv sad' 6 xazdavcov. 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 ayov {is avv aoi ngos -frsdov dyov xdrco. 
 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 
 dgxovfisv fasts oi ngodvijaocovTss asOsv. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 a daipov, oias avX,vyov {i drcoaTsgsis. 
 
 Ay1RH2TI 2. 
 
 Teal {irjv axozsivov o{i{ta {iov fiagvvsjcu. 385 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 a7icoX6{iqv dg\ si {is dr) Xsivjsis, yvvai, 
 
 Ay1KII2TI2. 
 
 as ovxsT* ovaav ovdsv dv Xsyois s{is. 
 
 A A MHT0 2. 
 
 ogOov ng6<j(Q7Zov, {itf Xinqs naidas asOsv. 
 
 AAKI12 TI2. 
 
 ov hjd* sxovad y\ dXXd yaigsx\ a rsxva. 
 
 AAMHT 2. 
 
 fiXsvjov ngos avrovs fiXsipov. 390 
 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 
 OVOSV Sl{l STL, 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 Tt dgas ; ngoXsiTtsis ; 
 
 AAKH2TI2. 
 Xalg . 
 
AAKH2TI2. 19 
 
 AJMHT02. 
 
 dTtcokofirjv xdkas, 
 X0P02. 
 3i6qxsv, ovxix' scfxiv ^AS^i\xov yvvrj. 
 
 ''ico {AOi xv^as. [lata, or] xazco 
 fisfiaxsv, ovxkx itixiv, co 
 
 ndxsg, vcp* aXied.j 395 
 
 iigoXtTtovoa S* d^wv [3iov 
 cogcpdviaev xlducov. 
 I'de ydg i'ds fiXtcpagov 
 xal rtagaxovovs yzgas. , 
 
 vrtdxovoov, dxovoov, co Lidxeg, dvxid£co tf\ 400 
 
 iyco a 3 iyco\ {idxzg, 
 
 * # xaXovucu 6 
 
 aos Tioxl (jolol tuxvcov crxoptadiv vsodcios. 
 
 A AMU TO 2. 
 
 xr\v y 3 ov xXvovaav ovS' bgcoaav codx* iyco 
 
 xal ocpco fiagsiq, av[xcpogci TteitXrjyLieda. 405 
 
 . ETMHA02. 
 
 vios iyco, Tidxsg, Xsitiolicu cpiXas 
 
 LiovoaxoXos xs {xaxgos * co 
 
 tf%ixkia Sr] TtaOcov 
 
 iyco sgya # av t£, 
 
 cvyxaot (lot xovga, 4io 
 
 * # cfvvixXas- 
 
 * * co Ttaxsg, 
 
 dvovax ' dvovax s ivviicpsvcfas, ovdi yr\gco<; 
 s6as xkXos ovv xad'* 
 ecpOixo ydg nag is, 
 
 393 — 403. = 406 — 414. 
 
20 etp inu or 
 
 / 
 
 ofyofiivas 8s aov, [zdxsg, bXcoXsv olxos. 415 
 
 x o P 2. 
 
 A8[A7jx \ dvdyxr] xda8s ovfupoQag (pigsty • 
 ov ydg xi ngcoxog ov8s XoiaOiog figoxcov 
 yvvaixog iodfa'jg i\^.7tXaxsg • ytyvcoaxs 8s 
 cog ndacv iftuv xaiOavslv oysiXsxai. 
 
 AJMRT02. 
 sinaxauai xs xovx dcpvco xaxov xo8s 420 
 
 Jigoasm ax ' • sidag 8' avx* sxstgopiyv ndlcu. 
 aAA, — ixcpogdv ydg xovSs tfijooficu vsxgov, — 
 nagsoxs xal {.isvovxsg dvxr^yrjaaxs 
 ncudva xco xdxcoOev dan6v8co &sgo. 
 Tcdocv 8s OsoGaXolacv av syco xgaxco 425 
 
 TtsvOog yvvaixog xyo8s xoivovodai Xsyco 
 xovgcl gvgifxsi xal (.isXa^ni7iXcp axoXjj • 
 Tsdgi7i7id &* ol tsvyvvads xal [iovd[i7ivxas 
 naXovg, oiSijgeo xs k uvsx* av^svoov cpo6yv. 
 avXcov 8s pi] xax ' dcixv, {.u} Avgag xxvnog 430 
 
 sgxco osXrjvag 8co8sx ' sxtt hi govfis vag • 
 ov yag xiv 3 dXXov (plXxsgov &dxpco vsxgov 
 xov8' ov8 3 dusivov* sis Sfi* ' dj-ia 8s pot, 
 
 XlfAOLV, STlsl XSdvjjXSV dvj ' iflOV [AOV7]. 
 Aj XOP02. 
 
 co HsXiov &vyaxsg, 435 
 
 yaigovod f.ioi siv \4t8a 86[xoioiv 
 
 rov dvdkiov otxov olxsxsvoig. 
 
 i'oxco 8* 3 A"i8ag 6 [.Lslayyatxas &sos, os r' stci 
 
 xarta 
 TtrfSaXicp xs ysgcov 440 
 
 vsxgo7ZO[A7iog i£si, 
 
 435 — 444. = 445 — 454. 
 
AAKH 2TI2. 21 
 
 7ioXv 8rj 7tolv 8r} yvvalx * agidxav 
 
 hiiivav 3 A%sgovxiav nogevoas iXdja Sixconcp, 
 
 nokXd d£ LiovdonoXoi 445 
 
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 %iXvv ev x 3 d&vgots x/\iovx£s vfxvois, 
 
 Hizdgxa, xvxkos dyixa Kagvuov Tt£gividdsxcu Sga 
 
 f.ir}vos deigo^isvas 450 
 
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 kutagaTdi t' iv bXSicus 3 A.6dvcus,l 
 
 xoiav sXines ftavovda iioXndv fA.eA.icov aoidols.jf 
 
 £LU £71 £(.101 [ASV £L7], 455 
 
 Svvaiiiav 8i as 71 i [tip at 
 
 (pdog !| 3 A'l'8a xegdfxvcov 
 
 Kaxvxov ts gEsdgcov 
 
 noxaixia vsgxiga x£ xcoTta. / 
 
 dv ydg, a pova, cb (piXa yvvcuxcov, 460 
 
 dv xov avids 
 
 exXa? itodiv dvxl ads df-iuvjou 
 
 vjv%ds i| cl Ai8a. xoyxpa dot 
 
 %dcov iitcu/code nkdoi, yvvau £t di xi 
 
 XOUVOV £AOLXO 7TQ6LS hi/OS, f( {id). ' £1101 X ' &V £IT\ 
 
 GxvytjOus xixvois xe xois dots. 465 
 
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 difias, ov8i Ttaxgos y£gaiov^ 
 
 ov h'xsxov 8\ ovx hkav gveodcu 
 
 6%£xkia), itoXidv s%ovxs %aixoi.v. 470 
 
 dv 8* iv rjfia 
 
 via ngodavovda (pcoxos oi%£i. 
 
 455 — 465. =466 — 475. 
 
22 etp inu or 
 
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 Gvvdvddos cpiXias dk6%ov " to ydg 
 
 iv fiioTcp OTtdviov fiigos' ij ydg ipoi y* dXvKOb 
 
 3c J aicovos dv j-vvsfy. 475 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 ££vol, <Psgaias rrjoSs xcofirjrat %dovos, 
 "^dfijjTOv iv d6f.ioi6iv dga xiy%dvco ; 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 I'tfr' iv SofioiOL 7tais (frigijTos,* HgdxXsis. 
 
 dXV elite %gsia Tig as OsaaaXcov %dova 
 
 7i£(A7t£i, fpcgaccov dory 7tgoc6fjvou rode. 480 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
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 XO P 02. 
 
 xcd not TtogevsL ; tS $uvi£sv%ai nXdvcp ; 
 
 HP AK AH 2. 
 
 Ogyxos t£t gcogov agpa zftopijdovs [tira. 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 nag ovv bwyjasi j fiav ditsigos el t-ivov ; 
 
 HP A Kyi 112. 
 
 aitugos ' ovtcco Bigtovov ykdov %6ova. 485 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 ovx EdTLv imtov dsoKodat (j* dvsv [A,d%r}s. 
 
 HPAKslH2. 
 
 dXX 5 ovd ' dizujteiv tovs novovs olov xk fioi. 
 
 X OP 02. 
 
 xtolvcov dg ' rj§s is if ftavav ayzov {.uvsis. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 ov tov8 3 dyeova ngaxov dv 8gdfXoif.i ' iyco. 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 tl # s dv xganfcas deoTtoTqv nXiov Xd6ois ; 490 
 
AAKH2TI2. 23 
 
 II PA K AH 2. 
 
 ncoXovg ditd^co xoigdvcp Ttgvvdtco. 
 
 x POZ. 
 ovx svixagis yaXcvov i^SaXslv yvddois* 
 
 IIP AK AH 2. 
 
 u {iij ye nvQ nvsovoi (.ivxxrjgav aito. 
 
 XOPOZ. 
 
 dXX* dvSgas dgxa.[iov6i XaixpijgoLts yvddois. 
 
 HPAKAII2. 
 
 &7]gcjv ogaiav yogxov, ovy Zmxav, Xeyets. 495 
 
 X0P0 2. 
 
 cpdxvas l8ols dv aipaoiv 7ie(pvg^iivag, 
 
 HP AK All 2. 
 
 xivos S* 6 &g£ipas 7iais naxgos xofurd^sxat $ 
 
 XOPO 2. 
 " Agsos, ^aygvaov Ogyxiag 7ziXx7]S drag. 
 
 IIP A KAH2. 
 
 xal xov8s jovfiov dalfiovos novov Xiysis, — 
 oxXygos ydg del xal izgos aiTtos sgyexai, — 500 
 ei ygrj [is naiolv ois " Agr\s iyetvaxo 
 [id%)]v ^vvdipai, ngcoxa [xiv Avxdovi, 
 avOts 8i Kvxva, xov8e 8' Igyoyiai xg'ixov 
 dyava TtaXots Ssotioxt} re av^SaXcov. 
 dXX* ovtls kdJiv 09 xov ' ' AXx[u]vi)s yovov 505 
 
 xgicfavxa yslga noXs^iiav nor J bipexai. 
 
 XOPO 2. 
 
 xal firjv o8 3 avxos jijads xoigavos yOovos 
 "A8[ir}xos e^co dcofidrcov Ttogevsxai. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 %atg', a Aios real Usgoscos dcp° ai[iaros. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 "ASfirjTS, xal av yatge, OsaaaXav dvatj. 5io 
 
24 etp inu or 
 
 A A Mil TO 27 
 
 &iXoi[i * civ ■ svvovv 8 3 ovra ti 3 i|f 7rttfTa^iat. 
 
 HPAKAII2. 
 Tfc Z9W a 7COV 9^ T T}8 £ TtSvdlfXa 7tQS7t£LS ; 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 ftdnxuv xiv 3 iv Trjd 3 fjpega (iskko vexgov. 
 
 HPAKAII2. 
 
 an ovv rixvcov ocov 7iy\(iovrjv etgyoi ■frsos* 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 £co(Uv xar' otxovs naidss ovs scpva 3 iyeo. 515 
 
 IIP AK AH 2. 
 
 7taTrjg ys {.ujv cogaios, siTtsg oi%stou. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 xdxstvos sort %r\ rsxovaa fi\ c HgdxXsis. 
 
 IIP AK All 2. 
 
 ov firjv yvvrj y " okcoXs v 3, ^4Xx7]Otis asdsv ; 
 
 AAM1IT02. 
 
 SitcXovs iit ' avrjj fivdos san poi kiyeiv. 
 
 HPAKAII2. 
 
 norsga &avovC7}s stnas 7} Icoaijs exi ; 520 
 
 AAMH TO 2. 
 
 k'ctriv ts xovxkx 3 86TLV, dXyvvat 8i (IS. 
 
 IIPAKAH2. 
 
 ovdsv ti fidkXov oi8' ' aoTjfia ydg Xiysts* 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 ovx olcida fioigas rfi tv%slv avxr\v %gscov ; 
 
 II PA KA II 2. 
 
 old 3 dvrl dov ye xaxdavelv txpeiftivriv. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 nm ovv It ' ftfw, elite g fjveaev rd8e ; 525 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 a, firj ngoxXai axocrcv, is jod ' dvafiakov. 
 
AAKH2TI2. 25 
 
 AAMHT0 2. 
 
 jiOvrix * o fiskkav, xovxix ' sod ' 6 xaxdavcov. 
 
 IIP AKAH2. 
 
 XcoqIs to t s etvai xal xo firj vofxi&xou. 
 
 AJMHT02. 
 
 av xjjo's xgivsis, 'HgdxXeis, xstvjf d 3 iyco. 
 
 IIP AK A II 2. 
 
 xi drjza xhaisis; xis cpiXcov 6 xaxdavcov ; 530 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 ywq ' yvvaixos dgxicos [xspvTJfisOa. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 odvsios, rj ool Gvyyzvy\s ysycodd xis $ 
 
 A A MHTO 2. 
 
 ddvsLOS, dXXcos 8* i\v dvayxaia douois, 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 noos ovv iv oi'xois tfoZoiv cqXegev fiiov ; 
 
 A J MHTO 2. 
 
 naxgos ftavovxos ivddd* oogcpavevsxo, 535 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 (psv. 
 
 SlO* £VQO[l£V O', "AdflTjTS, f.11] Xv7tOV^lBVOV. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 as 8jj xi Sgdaoov xov8 3 vnoggdnxus Xoyov ; 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 %£vcov ngos oXkr\v iaxiav nogsvaofiat, 
 
 AAMHTO 2. 
 
 ovx etixiv, c%va% • fxi) xoaovS* eXOoi xaxov. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 Xvrtovfxivois oxXrjgos, si (*6koi, t-ivos. 540 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 xedvdtiiv ot &avovxss ■ dXX 3 i'6 s is Sopovs. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 alti%gov nagd xXaiovai ftoLvdoQai (piXois. 
 
 3 
 
26 exp in i j or 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 %aglg ^svcovig slatv ol a* sadgopsv. 
 
 HPAKslHZ. 
 
 fxedss [t£, xac dot fivgcav s%a %dgiv. 
 
 A A Mil T 2. 
 
 ovx saxiv dXXov o* dv8gog iaxcav [aoXsTv. 545 
 
 rjyov ov, xcov8s 8co(idx(ov s^aniovg 
 2-svcovag ot|a?, xoig t' icpscfxacftv (pgdtiov 
 aixcov nagslvai nXijOog ■ iv 8s xXyaaxs 
 &vQcts pscjavXovg • ov ngsTtsi xtoivapsvovs 
 xXvsiv GTsyayfmv ov8s XvtzslgOcu t-svovs. 550 
 
 XOP02. 
 
 xi 8gdg ; xodavxy\g ^vpcpogdg Ttgoxsi[iSvr\g, 
 "uddfirjTS, xoXfiag £svo8o%stv ; xi [xagog si ; 
 
 AAMH T 2. 
 
 dXX* si doficov acps xal rcoXscog aTtrfXacta 
 
 £ivov uoXovxa, LidXXov dv ^ STrfivsoag $ 
 
 ov 8fjx\ STisi fiot §v[i(pogd {.isv ovdsv dv 555 
 
 [asicov syiyvsx \ d^svcoxsgog 8* sya. 
 
 xal ngog xaxoloiv dXXo xovx* dv ijv xaxov, 
 
 dofiovg xaXslaOai xovg i^iovg i%6go!-evovg, 
 
 avxog 8 3 dgiaxov xov8s xvy^dvco %ivov, 
 
 orav7isg * ' Agyovg 8iyjiav sXOco %dova. 560 
 
 x OPO 2. 
 nag ovv sxgvmsg tov Tiagovxa 8aifxova, 
 cpiXov fxoXovTog dv8gog, ag avxog Xiysig ; 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 ovx dv tiot ijSiXijctsv stosXOstv 86[iovg, 
 
 si xcov ifxSv tl TCJ^udiov syvcogtas. 
 
 xal xa [isv, olfxat, 8gcov xd8* ov cpgovslv 8oxa, 565 
 
 ov8 ' alvsdsi lis • xaLid 8 5 ovx snlax&.xat 
 
AAKHZTI2. 27 
 
 [tsXaOg* ajtaQtlv ov8* dxipd^eiv 1~ivovs. 
 
 x op oz. 
 a tcoXv^slvos xal iXsvdegos dvSgos del nox* olxos, * 
 ok xoi xal 6 Uvdios evXvgas 'AizoXXav 570 
 
 ffeicoos vaisiv, 
 exXa 8s oolcu (.njXovo pas 
 iv 86fiois yevsoQai, 
 
 do%fiidv did xXixvov 575 
 
 fiooxrjuacii Go lot ovgi^cov 
 7tOlflVlTClS vusvuiovs. 
 Gvv 8' knoipaivovxo %aga psXicov j3aXiai xs 
 
 Xvyxss, 
 s6a 8i Xltzovg 3 "OOgvos vduav Xeovxav 580 
 
 a 8acpoivos I'Xa ■ 
 %6gsvGs 8* dfxcpi adv xiddgav, 
 <Pol6s, noixiX6dgi% 
 
 vs6gos vxpixopav izsgav 585 
 
 fiaivovG* iXaxav Gcpvgai xoxxpco, 
 %aigov<j° svcpgovi [xoXitd. 
 xoiydg noXvi.ajXoxdxav 
 sGxiav olxei nagd xaXXtvaov 
 
 BoiSiav Xifxvav • dgoroig 8e yvdv 590 
 
 xal 7ie8i(ov 8a7ie8ots ogov dpcpl piv dsXiov xvs- 
 
 (paiav 
 
 ImtoGxaGiv aldega xdv MoXoggcqv xiOsxai, 
 
 tcqvxiov t 3 Alyaiav* in* dxxdv 595 
 
 dXlfisvov UtjXiov xgaxvvei. 
 
 xai vvv 86[iov dfiusxaGas 
 
 569 — 578. = 579 — 587. 
 588 — 596. = 597 — 605. 
 
28 EYPiniJOY 
 
 dij-szai Zjstvov vozsga fiXsqpdga, 
 xds (piXas xXaicov dXo/ov vixvv iv 
 Scojiactiv dgzidavrj* zo ydg svysvis ixcpigszcu 
 
 71009 at8a. 600 
 
 iv zols dyaQolai 8i Ttdvx svscfzcv cotpias. 
 ngos 8* i[xd ipv%d &dgaos -qazai 
 \}£06s6rj qpaza xs8vd ngd^stv 605 
 
 AJMHT02. 
 
 dvdgcov <PsgoLi(Dv €Vf,av7js nagovtiia, 
 
 vixvv fiiv y8r} Ttdvx s%ovxa ngoGitoXoi 
 
 (pigovaiv dgSrjv is zdcpov zs xal rtvgdv 
 
 v[i£is di zrjv &avovoav, as vo[ii£szou, 
 
 ngoosiTtaj ' it-iovoav vazd.zqv b86v. 610 
 
 x OPOZ. 
 xal [zrjv oga aov naziga yr/gaicp nodi 
 ct£l%ovt\ o7tadovs z° iv %sgotv 8d^iagzi drj 
 xoOfiov (pegovzas, vegzsgav dydX^iaza' 
 
 &EPH2. 
 
 rjxc) xaxoiGi dolci dvyxdfivav, zexvov ' 
 
 iodXr\s ydg, — ovdels dvzsgu, — xal ocoygovos 615 
 
 yvvaixos rffAagzrjxas. dXXd zavza piv 
 
 (pigsiv dvayxtj, xainsg ovza dvacpoga. 
 
 8s%ov di xo<j[iov zov8s, xal xatd %dovos 
 
 lzco ' zo zavzy\s 6a^ia zipdcdai %g£cov, 
 
 rjzis ys zrjs orjs itgovdavs ipv%ys, zexvov, 620 
 
 xat [i 3 ovx aitai8* edijxsv, ov8 3 aiaos oov 
 
 dzsgivza yr\g& Ttsvdtficp xazacpdivEiv, 
 
 ndacLLs 8 ' sOjjxev evxkeiarazov filov 
 
 yvvai^lv, egyov zXdaa ysvvalov z68s. 
 
 oo zovds fxiv acoaaa\ dvaazrjaacia 8i 625 
 
AAKH2TI2. 29 
 
 y fids 7iiTv6vz as, %aig£, x ^ v "^8ov Sopois 
 sv ooi ykvouzo. cpij^xl tolovtovs ydpovs 
 Xveiv figojOLOiv, ^ yafieiv ovx a£iov. 
 
 A A MH T 2. 
 
 ovx rjXdss is tov8' it- if.wv xfajdels xdcpov 
 
 ovt' iv (plXoLOt Grjv itagovoiav Xeyco. 630 
 
 xoGfiov 8i tov Gov ovitoO* rjd 3 iv8vG£Tai* 
 
 ov ydg tl tcgv gcjv ivderjs TacpvfiZTai. 
 
 tote |f vaXyetv %gi\v o* 6V mXXvpqv iyco. 
 
 Ov 8* ixjto8cov OTas xal rcagus dXXa &avstv 
 
 vscp ysgcov cov, tov8* a7toLf.ico^ei vexgov ; 635 
 
 ovx 7/od' dg* ogdcos tovSs ocoucltos TtaT-qg, 
 
 ovd* i\ tsxslv cpdoxovoa xal xexXrffiivij 
 
 f^tjlffg ^ tTLXTE ' 8ovXtOV 8' dcp ' CUflOLTOS 
 
 fiaOTa yvvaixos oijs viteSXijdijv XdOga, 
 eSsi^as els k"Xsy%ov it-sXOcov os st, 640 
 
 xal f.i 3 ov vofii'Cco nat8a gov izecpvxivaL, 
 rj Taga 7tdvTcov diaTtgsrtSLS dyjv%ia, 
 os tijXlxog8 3 cov xdnl Teg^i rjxav fiiov 
 ovx -qdiXijGas, ovd* exoXpjOas &avuv 
 tov gov ngo 7taiS6s, dXXd Trjvd d eiaGaTS 645 
 
 yvvalx* bdveiav, rjv iyco xal fnjjigu 
 rtaTsga t* dv ivdcxcos dv qyoifirjv povrjv. 
 xauzoi xaXov y* dv tov8* dycov* qycoviGa, 
 tov gov ngo nai86s xazOavov, (3ga%vs 8i gol 
 ndvTCds 6 Xoltzos i\v ftieoGifios %govos * 650 
 
 xdyco t° dv sfyv %7J8s tov Xoltcov ygovov, 
 xovx dv [AovaOeis Zgtsvov xaxots spots* 
 xal firjv og ' av8ga %gr) jtadetv svdaifxova 
 Ttinovdas ' TJSrjGas [isv iv Tvgavvidi, 
 
 3* 
 
30 e tp inu or 
 
 nats d 3 rjv iyco aoi rSv8e 8idSo%os dofxcov, 655 
 
 Sax 3 ovx dx£xvos xaxdavav aXXois 86[iov 
 
 Xuvjuv sfiekkes ogcpavov Biagndaai. 
 
 ov inqv igsis yk p 3 as dxi[td£ovxa adv 
 
 y rjg as d'avelv ngovdaxas, oaxis aldocpgcov 
 
 ngds a ' rjv [idktGxa, xdvxl xavdi fioc %dgiv 660 
 
 xoidvSa xal av %q x£xova 3 qhXal-dxrjv. 
 
 xoiydg cpvxevcov 7rar«5ccs ovxix 3 av cpQdvois, 
 
 ol yrfgo6oaxijaovai xal &avovxa as 
 
 7isgi6TsXov6i xal ngodrjaovxaL vsxgov. 
 
 ov ydg a 3 eycoys xrjd 3 ifxjj d-dyja %sgi. 665 
 
 xidvrjxa ydg h) xovul a 3 ■ s 18 3 dXXov Tv%av 
 
 aaxrjgos avyds stooga, xsivov Xiya 
 
 xal rtaldd {i atvat xal (piXov yqgoxgocpov. 
 
 [idxqv dg 3 ol ysgovres ev^oviac &av£cv, 
 
 yijgas vjkyovx£S xal (iiaxgov %govov fit.ov. 670 
 
 qv 8 3 iyyvs eXdrf ftdvaxos, ovSels fiovhsxat 
 
 &vrfax£iv, to yijgas d 3 ovxix 3 lax 3 avxols fiagv. 
 
 x o PO 2. 
 ixavaaad ' * akis ydg iy Ttagovaa ovpcpogd, 
 a Ttal' itaxgos 8i (iTf nago^vvys cpgiva. 
 
 0EPH 2, 
 a itaZ, xlv 3 av%£is, 7tox£ga Av86v rj &gvya 675 
 xaxots iXavvuv dgyvgcdvy\xov aid£v ; 
 ovx olada 0£aaaX6v [x£ xdno 0£aaaXov 
 naxgos y£yaxa, yvijaias ik£vd£gov ; 
 ayav vSgi&ts, xal v£avias,X6yovs 
 giTCxav Is 7if.ias'ov ftaXcov ovxas anu* 680 
 
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 xddg£vj 3 , ocpuXco 5' ov/ vjt£gQvi\ax£iv aidev • 
 
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 AAKH2TI2. 31 
 
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 Tiaidcov ixgoQvr\Gxeiv rcaxegas, ov8* ' EXXr^vixov. 
 
 Gavxcp ydg, eixe 8vGxv%y\s ei'x* evTv%rjSi 685 
 
 eqpvg ' ad 3 r]fiSv %grjv as xvyydveiv, e%eis. 
 
 noXXav f.iiv ag%eis, noXvuXidgovs 8s Got yvas 
 
 Xetvja ■ Ttaxgos ydg xavx* eSe^d^v ndga. 
 
 xl Srjxd o* qdixqxa ; xov G* ditoGxegco j 689 
 
 «« &vrJG%* vnig xovS* dvdgos, ov8' iyco ngo Gov 
 
 %aigsis bgav (pas, naxsga 8 ' ov yatgstv 8oxsts ; 
 
 ?J f.ti]v noXvv ys xov xdxco Xoyi^opat 
 
 %govov, xo 8i "C^v Gfitxgov, dXX ' Spas yXvxv. 
 
 Gv yovv dvac8as 8tspd%ov xo fiij &avetv, 
 
 xal "Cys nageXdcov xi]v nengcopivijv Tvyqv^ 695 
 
 xavxr\v xaxaxxds ' etx ' iprjv dvjvyiav 
 
 Xsysts, yvvatxos, a xdxiod \ 7}GGqusvos, 
 
 if xov xaXov gov ngovdavsv veavtov ; 
 
 Gocpcos 8 3 ecpevges, Saxs pi] &avetv noxs, 
 
 ei xrjv nagovGav xaxdavstv nstGsis del 700 
 
 yvvaty vnig gov • xdx* 6vsl8l£sls cptXots 
 
 rots pi] &sXovgl 8gdv xd8\ avxos av xaxos ; 
 
 Gtya ' voptC,e 8 \ el gv xt]v Gavxov (ptXets 
 
 wv%nv, (piXetv dnavxas • el 8* tjpds xaxais 
 
 igets, dxovGet noXXd xov yjev8rj xaxd. 705 
 
 X OP 02. 
 
 nXetco XeXexxat vvv xe xal xd nglv xaxd • 
 navGai 8i, ngso6v, nal8a gov xaxoggodav. 
 
 AA31IIT0 2. 
 
 Xky ', as i /xov Xe^av xos ' ei 8' dXyets xXvcov 
 xdXr]Qis, ov %grjv o*' els eft i^apagxdvstv. 
 
 <bEPH2. 
 0ov d* av jxgoQvqGxcov pdXXov igtipdgxavov. 710 
 
32 etp inu or 
 
 AA Mil TO 2. 
 
 ravTov ydg ySavz' dvdga xal tcq£o6vv ftavslv $ 
 
 ®epii2. 
 yv%jj [tea £rjv, ov Svoiv, oipuXopsv. 
 
 A A Mil T 2. 
 
 Teal fiijv zfcog ys {isl£ov' > av Zcoijg %govov. 
 
 ®E PH2. 
 
 dga yovevaiv, ovBzv Ixhixov naQcov $ 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 liay.gov fiiov ydg r^oOo^iriv igcovjd as. 715 
 
 0EPII2. 
 
 dXX J ov ov vexgov dvxl aov tov8 3 ixcpigug ; 
 
 AAMIIT 2. 
 
 cr^ieia Trjs cfrjg, cb 7cdxiar\ dyjv%iag. 
 
 &EPII2. 
 ovjot ngos rfticov y* mIst* ■ ovx igstg t68s. 
 
 AA MIIT02. 
 CpEV ' 
 
 ei'Q avdgog hXdoig Tovdi y* eg %gsiav tlotL 
 
 &EPH2. 
 
 (.ivijazsvs TtoXlds, cos ddveoot, nXeiovsg. 720 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 col iovt ' ovelSos ' ov ydg jjdsXsg &avslv. 
 
 &EPII2. 
 
 cplXov to cpsyyog tovto tov &80V, cpilov. 
 
 A A M II T 2. 
 
 xaxov to kijua xovx iv dvhgdoiv to gov. 
 
 0EPII2. 
 
 ovx eyyeXag yigovTa (SadTa'Cav vexgov. 
 
 AAM IIT0 2. 
 
 &avei ys {itvTOt dvoxksijs, oTav &dvzjs. 725 
 
 &EPII2. 
 
 xaxag dxovuv ov piXsc &avovTi [kol. 
 
AAKH 2TI2 . 33 
 
 AA MH T02. 
 
 (pev (pev ' to yijgag as dvouSstas nXiav. 
 
 EPII2. 
 
 ?j8* ovx dv<xL8v t g ' njvd 3 icpsvgss acpQova. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 aneXde, xai fxe tov8* sa &d\pai v£xgov. 
 
 &EPH2. 
 
 ansifii • &dxp£ig 8* aviog av avrrjg cpovsvs. 730 
 
 8ixag 8i 8a6sis golgl x7i8£6T<xig etc. 
 
 ii rag* *' Axaoxog ovxet 3 £GJ 3 iv dv8gdaiv, 
 
 el fiij 6* d8e?.(p7Js atfxa TL^cogjjoeiac, 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 h'ggoig vvv aviog yji t-vvoixijoaod doc • 
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36 etp inu or 
 
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 HPAKAH2. 
 
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AAKH2TI2. 37 
 
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 7iov xat ocps ftdnxsi ; uov viv svgijtfco fioXcov ; 
 
 O EP All SIN. 
 
 bgQiqv nag ' ouwv, ij *tzi Adgicaav (psgsi, 835 
 
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38 exp in i j or 
 
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 AAMHT O 2. 
 
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 to [ioi fioi, aloiL atai. 
 
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 £r}X& (pdifievovg, xelvav sgapou, 
 
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 ovts ydg avydg %aiga ngoaogav, 
 
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 tolov ourigov [i d7toc>vXijc>ag 870 
 
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 XOP02. 
 
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 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
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 A/1MHT02. 
 
 
 872 — 877. =-889 — 894. 
 
AAKH2TI2. 39 
 
 X0P02. 
 
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 adcp 3 ot8a • 875 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 (p£V CpSV. 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 xdv vegds #' ovdev cocpeXsis, 
 
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 X0P02. 
 
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 AJMHT02. 
 
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 tccottJs aKoyov ; [ijj noxe yr^ias 880 
 
 acp&Xov oixslv [isid jijods dofiovs. 
 
 ^Aca 8' dydfiovs drsxvovs te figoxcov. 
 
 fxid ydg ipvyj} ' Trjs vitBgaXyeiv 
 
 [isjgiov d%6os * 
 
 naiBav di vooovg xal vvuyidiovs 885 
 
 evvds &avdzocg x£ga'i£o{,uvas 
 
 ov rhjTOv ogdv, i^ov dzexvovg 
 
 dydpovs t blvai hid navjos. 
 
 x OP02. 
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 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
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 AAMHT02. 
 
 (pev (psv. 
 
 XOP02. 
 
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 A A Mil T 02. 
 16 [iOL (.101. 
 
 XO P02. 
 
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 AA MHT02. 
 
 & [iaxgd nsvOij Xvnai rs cpiXcov 895 
 
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 tl ft ' ixcoXvaas givjai tv[i6ov 
 
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 8vo 8 J dvxl [iids a At8ris ipv%ds 900 
 
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 XOP 02. 
 
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 (OX eX * *V 86(10161 905 
 
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 903 — 910. = 926 — 934. 
 
AAKH2TI2. 41 
 
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 71C0S 8 3 oixqOCO, fXSTUTlLTlTOVTOS 
 
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 sdavs 8di.iag, skins (ptXiav • 930 
 
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 ihdvaTOS 8duagTos. 
 
 A/1MHT0 2. 
 
 (pikoi, yvvouxos 8al^iov 3 svTvysGTsgov 935 
 
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 945 
 
 950 
 
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 iget 8i p ' oaxis i%6gos av xvgsi xdde • 
 
 *I8ov xov aiaygcos &ovd \ os ovx exX-q &avetv, 955 
 
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 3 Ogq)£ia xax£ygavj£v 
 
 962 — 972.^973 — 983. 
 
 960 
 
 965 
 
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 (pdgpaxa tzoXvtcovols avxixspav figoxotOLV, 
 
 [ipvas 8 ' ovx 3 iut flapovs 
 
 ikdstv ovxs figixas &eds 
 
 sgxlv, ov ocpayiav xkvst. 975 
 
 (l?j (101, TtOTVia. [ISl^aV 
 
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 OVV Ool XOVXO xsksvxd. 979 
 
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 xokfxa 8 * ' ov ydg dvd^eis nox ' svsgdsv 965 
 
 xXaccov xovs (pdiixivovs dvco. xal ftsav oxoxioi v 
 (pQivovOL 7Tatdes iv -fravaxa. 990 
 
 (pika [i8V OX ' T(V fxsO ' fjflCOV, 
 
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 yevvatoxaxav Si naodv 
 
 i^sv^a xkioiais dxotriv. 
 
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 xvf.i6os odg dX6%ov, ftsoioi 8 ' 6[ioias 
 
 Tifidodcj, osSas i^7togav. xac xis So/piav 1000 
 
 xekevOov i^iSaivav xo8 ' igsl* 
 
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 vvv 8 ' ioxl (.idxaiga 8ai[iav, 
 
 %aig ', a tz6xvl\ sv 8i 8olijs. — 
 
 xolai vlv 7tgoosgovOt (prjfxat. 1005 
 
 xal f.iijv 68\ as solxsv, 'Akx^rjvris yovos, 
 
 " A8prixz, ixgos oi\v ioxcav Ttogevsxai, 
 
 931 — 994. = 995 — 1005. 
 
44 etp in I A or 
 
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 "d.8[l71T£, [I0[.l(pds 8 9 0V% V7T0 (jTtXdy/VOLS £/£lV 
 
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 imtovg dyeddai^ tolgl 8' av rd [ist'Cova 1030 
 
 vtxcodi, 7tvyfiijv xal TtdXiiv, fiovcpogSta • 
 
 yvvrj 8 9 i?t 9 avzoZg eiTtez 9 • ivTv%6vxi 8i 
 
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 dXX\ cooitsg £L7tov, dol fxiXsiv yvvaZxa %gi\ m 
 
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AAKH2TI2. 45 
 
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 sxgvyj ' ifATjS yvvatxos ddkiovs tv%ols ' 
 
 ccA/. 5 dXyos cikyst tovt 9 av i\v izgoGxeifxevov, 
 
 el tov ngos dXkov <$g^gc0' cogfiijOijs %ivov • 1040 
 
 akis Si xXautv xovfxov ryv ifiol xaxov. 
 
 yvvalxa 8\ si nag sgtlv, aiTov[.iai g\ dva^ 
 
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 cd^etv civa/dc OeGGaXcov ■ noXXol oi Got 
 
 £ivoi (Pegaiav • fxij (i ' dvauvrjcrys xaxav. 1045 
 
 ovx av dvvaipriv TijvS 9 ogcov iv SeofiaGiv 
 
 ddaxgvg etvat ■ girj vogovvtl pot vogov 
 
 ngoodjjs * ciXis ydg Gvpcpoga fiagvvofiai. 
 
 nov xal TgiqpoLT 9 av Sapdzcov via yvvyj ; 
 
 via ydg, as iodiiTi xal xog^ico ngiiZBi. 1050 
 
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 xal Teas dxgaLcpvijs, iv viois argcocpcofiivrj, 
 
 sarai ; tov r)6m>0\ z HgdxXeis, ov gdSiov 
 
 sigysiv . iyco di Gov ngo^diav i%a>. 
 
 ij Trjs tyavovorfs ftdXapov £iG6?]Gas rgicpco ; 1055 
 
 xal ncos iiteiGcpgS TijvSs to xsiviis Xi%si ; 
 
 SinXriv (po6ov[iai ^d^ivjiv, ex ts S^jxotcov^ 
 
 [xjj tls fJ> ' ikiy^-Q ttjv i^niv evegyhtv 
 
 ngodovT* iv dX?*r}s Sspviois tzitvuv vias, 
 
 xal Trjs ftavovGris, — dt-ta di fxoi cifisiv, — - 1060 
 
 noXXrjv ngovoiav gel [i* £%£iv. Gv S\ a yvvai, 
 
 t[ti9 7TOt' Si gv, TavT* S/OVG' '' ' AXxiJGTlSl 
 
 fxog(prjs f^hg 9 lgOl, xal ngoGiji^ai Sifias. 
 
 oi[uoi. xofxi^s ngos -frsav an' bfXfiaTcov 
 
 yvvalxa ttJvSs, [irj p 9 eXys ygrifxivov. 1065 
 
46 etp inu or 
 
 doxco ydg avjyjv slaogav yvval^ ogdv 
 iptrjv • &0X01 8s xag8iav, ix 8' b^idrcov 
 7t7]yal xarsggcoyatiiv • d) tXti^icov iyco 
 cos oigri nsvdovs xov8s ysvo^iat nixgov. 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 iyco [isv ovx s%oi[i' av sv Xsysiv tv%ijv » 1070 
 
 %gr\ 8\ btins s t tiv\ xagrsgeiv xteov 86tiiv. 
 
 HPAKAH2 . 
 
 si ydg TOtiavTi\v 8vva[xiv styov Stirs tiy\v 
 is (pas nogsvtiai vsgrsgcov ix dco^idjcov 
 yvvalxa, xac tioi Tijv8s nogovvcu %dgtv. 
 
 AJMHT02. 
 
 tid(p' olda [SovXstidai tf' dv. dXkd nov z68s ; 1075 
 ovx stixi tovs davovxas is (pdos [ioaslv. 
 
 HP AK A II 2. 
 
 [irj vvv V7tsg6a?>h\ dXV ivaitii^icos (pigs. 
 
 A A MHT02. 
 
 gaov nagaivslv i\ nadovxa xagxsgstv. 
 
 HP AKA1I 2. 
 
 xi 8' dv itgoxonxois, si dsXsts dsl tixsvsiv ; 
 
 A A Mil TO 2 . 
 
 syvcoxa xavxos, dXV sgcos tis i^dyst. 1080 
 
 IIPAKAH2. 
 
 to ydg (piki\tiai xov -fravovx' ay si 8dxgv. 
 
 AAMHT0 2. 
 
 diccoXstisv pS) xdxi [idXkov rj Xsyco. 
 
 IIPAKAH2. 
 
 yvvaixos itiOXrjs r^iuXaxss * xis dvxsgst ; 
 
 AAMHT0 2. 
 
 Stir' dv8ga tov8s pyxs®' i\8stidai fiicp. 
 
 IIPAKAH2. 
 
 Xgovos fiaXd^si, vvv 8' sd 9 rfia tioi xaxov. 1085 
 
A A Mil TO 2. \\<- 
 
 47 
 
 Xqovov "ksyoig av, si %govog to xaTdavsiv. 
 
 HPAKAI12. 
 
 yvvjj ae 7tav(j£t xal vsov ydpov nodog, 
 
 AAMHT 2. 
 
 aiyij6ov m olov slnag. ovx av coopyv. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 tl #'; ov y apsis ydg, dXXd ^-qgsvdSL Xs/og ; 
 
 A A MH TO 2. 
 
 ovx sCtlv {jug Tads ovyxXidijdSTai. 1090 
 
 HP AKAH 2. 
 
 ficov Tr\y -fravovtiav cocpsXsiv tl ngoadoxag ; 
 
 AAMHT 2. 
 XSLVtjV 0710VTCSQ SdTL TlfAaoOcU %QSC0V. 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 aivoo [isv alvoo • paglav d' otpXidxavsig. 
 
 A A MH TO 2. 
 
 cog p-qnoT^ dvdga tovos vv[xcpiov xaXcov. 
 
 HP AKAH 2. 
 
 snqvso'' dko/co niGTog ovvsx^ sl epilog. ^ 1095 
 
 AAMHT 02. 
 
 d'dvot^ sxsivqv xainsg ovx ovoav rcgoSovg. 
 
 IIPAKAH2. 
 
 8s%ov vvv sl'doo Trjvds ysvvaioov 8d[xcov. 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 fir}, ngog as tov ansigavTog dvTopai Aiog. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 xal prjv cl[.iagTri(jSi ys prj dgdtiag Tads. 
 
 A A MH TO 2. 
 
 xal dgoov ys Xvnq xagSiav drj/drjciopai. noo 
 
 HP AKAH 2. 
 
 mdov • to^' av ydg sg dsov nsdoi %dgig. 
 
48 etp inu or 
 
 AAM IIT02. 
 (pSV. 
 
 sid ' l| dycovos Trjvds fir} *ka6ss nors. 
 
 HPAKJH2. 
 
 vixcovti [asvtoi xai cfv dvvvixds ifioi. 
 
 A AMI! TO 2. 
 
 xaXcos sksgas • r\ yvvr\ #' dTtsXQsxco. 
 
 HPAKAII2. 
 
 drtsioiv, si %qtJ ■ ngara #' si ^gscov ddgsi. H05 
 
 AJMIIT 02. 
 
 XQi}, gov ys [My [isXXovtos ogyaivsiv spot. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 \ siSds ti xdyco rrjvS'' s%co ngodv^iiav. 
 
 AAMHT0 2. 
 
 vixa vvv, ov [xrjv dvddvovrd [ioi noisls. 
 
 HP A KAH2. 
 
 akX 1 sod'' od 1 fj[ias aivsasis • nidov fiovov. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 xo[a,i£st\ si %gr] TrjvSs Ss^aaOai dopois. mo 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 ovx dv [asOsitiv aois yvvaixa ngotinoXois. 
 
 AAMIITO 2. 
 
 Ov d' avzos avxy\v si6ay\ si doxsi, dopois. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 is das fisv ovv sycoys &rJ60[xai %sg as. 
 
 AAMHT 02. 
 
 ovx dv &iyoi[M, Sapa 5' siasXdsiv udga. 
 
 HP A K AH 2. 
 
 xjj ay TtsitoiOa x sl 9 l Ss^id [xovri. 1U5 
 
 AAMHT 02, 
 
 dva%, fiid£si ^ ov dslovxa Sgdv xd8s. 
 
 HP AKslH2. 
 
 roXfxa Ttgojsivai %siga xal ftiysiv %svris. 
 
AAKH2TI2. 49 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 Teal dtf TtQOTUvco, rogyov' as xagaxo^ico. 
 
 HP AKAH2* 
 
 £ X ets ; 
 
 AAMHT 02. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 val, aa^s vvv, xal xov /fids 
 cpifeus nor' BivoLi Ttaida yzvvaiov t-evov. 1120 
 
 fiksyjov #' is o.vTr\v, si' ti off doxst ngknuv 
 yvvcuxi' Xv7i7^s #' svtv/cov {.isdiOTCccto. 
 
 AAMHT 2. 
 
 a &£ol, Ti Ae|o; dav^ dviXmojov t68s • 
 
 yvvaixa Xsvooa TTjvd' i{.n]v izifTv^as, 
 
 7] xigjouos ps fteov tls ix7tk7Joo£i %agd ; 1125 
 
 HP AK All 2. 
 
 ovx sorer, d).).d Tjpfl' bgas ddpagza orfv. 
 
 AAMHT 02. 
 
 oga ys [iij ti cpdofia vegrsgov t68 ' q. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 ov ipv/ayayov jovd' 1 inonjoa %svov. 
 
 A A MHT0 2. 
 
 aAA' rfv edanjov sicioga ddpagz'' iprfv; 
 
 HPAKA112. 
 adcp^ i'od\ dniOTSiv #' ov os &av[Ad'£a Tv%r)v. H30 
 
 AAMHT 2. 
 
 &iya, ngoosina 'Caoav as dduagx' sp-qv ; 
 
 HP A K AH 2. 
 
 7tgo6£i7t\ s%sis ydg ndv boovnsg qdskss. 
 
 AAMHT 02 
 
 a (piXjaTtjS yvvcuxos b\uua xal Sifias, 
 e%co tf' dsXnxas, ovTtoz' 1 ovjsodai Soxav. 
 
 5 
 
50 etp inu or 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 £%sls ' cpdovos Si pr] yevono rig &eav, 1135 
 
 AAMHT 02. 
 
 co tov fAsyictTOv Ztjvos evysvis tsxvov, 
 svdaifiovoirjS) xai tf' 6 cpiTvoas 7taTqg 
 oco£oi • 6v ydg St} Taa > dvcogdoaas [iovos. 
 ncos Tijvd ? k'rtspipas vigdsv is cpdos toSs ; 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 ud%rjv 2-vvdxpas Saipovav tco xvgico. 1140 
 
 A AM HT O 2. 
 
 nov Tovds Oavdxa cpys dyava tivfifiaksiv ; 
 
 II PA KAH2. 
 
 TVfi6ov nag ' avTov ix Xo/ov pdgxpas %sgoiv. 
 
 AAMHT02. 
 
 Ti ydg nod'' ^'#' dvavSos ecfTtjxsv yvvr\ $ 
 
 IIPAKAH2. 
 
 ovTtco O'ifXLs dot TrjaSs 7tgo6(pov^fidTcov 
 
 xXvslv, nglv av fteoltii tol6l vegzigots 1145 
 
 dcpayvioriTai xal xguzov [xoXrf cpdos. 
 
 aAA' iXcay' 1 si'oco ttjvSs • xal Sixatos cov 
 
 TO Aot7toV, ''^fyt^T'', £V0£6SL TtSgl %£VOVS. 
 
 xai%aig' i • iyco 8i tov ngoxBLfxsvov novov 
 22deviXov xvgdvvco nacSl nogovvco [ioXcov. 1150 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 fisivov nag J r^ilv xal ^vvsotios ysvov. 
 
 HPAKAH2. 
 
 avdis toS"* IWcu, vvv 5' imiystidai [is Set. 
 
 A A Mil TO 2. 
 
 dXV svrvxQLrjs, voarifxov #' sXOois noSa. 
 
 doTois 8i ndtiri t ' ivviuco rsrgag/ia 
 
 %ogovs in* iadXats ovyicpogaidiv lazdvai 1155 
 
AAKH2TI2. 51 
 
 Popovs ts xviadv fiovdvjouu 7tgoazgo7tais* 
 vvv ydg [isOrjgpocifxsoOa fiskTio fiiov 
 rov tcqogQsv • ov ydg svrv^cov dgyrjaofiai, 
 
 .,W&-^ X0P0 2. 
 
 KtoXXai fxogcpal rcov daifioviav, 
 noXkd 8* dskjtTCds xgaivovai x^soL 1160 
 
 xal rd SoxTjOivr'' ovx hsXsodj], 
 tSv 5' ddoxijicov nogov evge &e6s. 
 tol6v8' djisSri toSs ngdypa.. c^^-^o 
 
NOTES. 
 
 G 
 
NOTES, 
 
 N. B. In the Notes, Matthias's Grammar is referred to by the letters 
 Mt., and by the sections of the second German edition, which are given 
 in the last editions of Blomfield's translation. Sophocles and Eurip- 
 ides are usually cited according to the numbering of the verses in 
 Dindorf s " Poetae Scenici," who in Sophocles follows Brunck, and 
 in Euripides, for the most part, Barnes. In quoting from JEschylus, 
 Wellauer's edition is sometimes followed, and the lines, as Dindorf 
 and for the most part Schutz have given them, follow in parentheses. 
 
 ON THE ARGUMENT. 
 
 ^AtioV.ojv iJTrjaaio. The ground of Apollo's friendship 
 for Admetus is told in the prologue. A learned Scholiast 
 on v. 1, says, that the commonly received story is followed 
 by Euripides. Others say, that he slew the sons of the 
 Cyclops ; others again, that he served Admetus after hav- 
 ing slain the dragon at Pytho; and this agrees with a 
 whole circle of fables relating to Apollo. The vengeance 
 of Jupiter was incurred by iEsculapius for raising some 
 one to life. Our poet, by his use of the imperfect avloTr/ 
 (v. 127), implies that he often exercised this power. Nine 
 different statements as to the person raised by ^Esculapius 
 are cited by the Scholiast from as many authors. All this 
 shows, that the story was often worked over by poets and 
 mythographists. The time of this service was a great year, 
 or eight years. For the philosophical examination of this 
 mythus, Miiller (History of the Dorians, Book ii. pp. 204, 
 320, in the German,) may be consulted with advantage. 
 
56 ALCESTIS. 
 
 ''AdfuiTog. Both Admetus and Alcestis were of the tribe of 
 the Minyae, concerning whom see Muller's " Orchomenos," 
 especially p. 256. Cretheus and Salmoneus were brothers, 
 and sons of iEolus. Pheres, father of Admetus, was a son 
 of Cretheus ; and Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus, bore Pelias, 
 the father of Alcestis and Acastus ; (see v. 732.) Jason 
 was of the same family, being nephew of Pheres and of 
 Pelias, and cousin of Admetus. 
 
 The name of Admetus is inwoven in the peculiarly 
 poetical fables which relate to the Minyae. When Jason, 
 according to Pindar's most beautiful description in the 
 fourth Pythian Ode, came down from mount Pelion to claim 
 the kingdom of Iolcus, which Pelias had wrested from his 
 father, his relatives went to greet him. " Pheres came 
 from the neighbourhood, and left the fountain Hypereis. 
 Amythan came from Messene, and speedily Admetus came 
 and Melampus with kind feelings towards their cousin." 
 (Pyth. iv. 222-225.) Admetus was also one of the Argo- 
 nauts (Apol. Rhod. i. 49; Orph. Arg. 176- 179), and one 
 of the companions of Meleager in hunting the boar (Apol- 
 lod. p. 49, ed. Heyne.) According to the mythus preserved 
 by this latter author (comp. also Hyginus, Fab. 50, 51), he 
 won Alcestis through the kindness of Apollo. Pelias had 
 promised her to whoever should yoke lions and boars 
 together : this Apollo enabled him to do ; and, on bringing 
 a chariot drawn by these animals to Pelias, he received her 
 in marriage. I have thought it worth while to mention 
 these mythi, because they lie partly out of the common 
 circle of fables, and serve to individualize the characters 
 of the piece. 
 
 Homer alludes to Admetus in the l * Catalogue of ships " 
 (Iliad ii. 711, 764), where his son Eumelus appears as one 
 of the Grecian leaders. He had the best horses, says the 
 poet, of any chieftain before Troy except Achilles, for they 
 had been reared by Apollo. In Iliad xxiii. he contends in 
 
NOTES. 57 
 
 the chariot race, which was held in honor of Patroclus. 
 His wife Iphthima, sister of Penelope, is mentioned Odys. 
 iv. 798. He is a little boy in the present play, and his 
 sister, whose name, according to the Scholiast on v. 269 
 (ed. Matthiae), was Perimele, appears without speaking. 
 
 ovderiQM, neither of the other two. This must refer to 
 ^Eschylus and Sophocles, neither of whom, says the writer 
 of the argument, wrote a drama upon this subject. 
 
 to dodua — 'j&xrjOTidi. This passage, which is the new 
 part of the argument mentioned in the preface, calls for 
 several remarks. 
 
 1. The first words contain a reference apparently to a 
 chronological list of our poet's dramas. The numerals If 
 are corrupt. If we read £ for |, as the two letters are often 
 confounded, the Alcestis will take the seventeenth place on 
 the list. But as Euripides began to write for the theatre in 
 Olymp. 81. 1, seventeen years previously, and in fifty years 
 wrote ninety dramas; there is reason to suppose that both 
 the numbers may have suffered in the hands of the copyists. 
 
 2. Just below I have followed Dindorf in altering to X" 
 into ni 6l, i. e. Olymp. 85, which the name of the Archon 
 required. The year of the Olympiad is not given by the 
 writer of the argument. 
 
 3. Of the tragedies mentioned, Cressae and Telephus are 
 both referred to in the Acharnenses. (See 408. Bekker, 
 Schol., and Telephus 405, seq.) The Alcmaeon is called 
 dia Vwcfldog, because in passing through the Arcadian town 
 so called Alcmseon was delivered from the attacks of the 
 Furies. The name was used also to distinguish it from 
 Alcmaeon dia Kooh&ov, a play of Euripides first exhibited 
 by his son after his death. 
 
 4. The fourth place in a tetralogy, usually occupied by a 
 satyric drama, here belongs to Alcestis. This shows us 
 that when a poet presented four pieces at a time, he was 
 free to write a satyric drama or not as he pleased. But it 
 
 6* 
 
58 ALCESTIS. 
 
 throws great light also on the nature of the present play. 
 The Alcestis is indeed far from a satyric drama, but, occu- 
 pying as it does the fourth place after three tragedies, when 
 the mind needed to be relaxed, it deserts the tragic tone. 
 It was not intended for a tragedy. Hence it is that Her- 
 cules is put into a comic situation, and that the close is. 
 joyful, nay almost festive. The drama is more like an 
 elegant masque than like ancient tragedy. 
 
 iv (l>sQ(ug. This place, reputed to have been founded 
 by Pheres, was situated near lake Bcebeis (comp. v. 590), 
 now called Carlas, in a fertile soil, at the distance of 90 
 stadia from Pagasae, its emporium. It was very near mount 
 Pelion and not far from Iolcus. It had a celebrated foun- 
 tain, Hypereis, alluded to by Homer, and which Mr. Dod- 
 well and Sir William Gell have thought that they recognised. 
 Pherae arose into importance under its tyrant Jason, about 
 390 B. C. and sunk upon the ascendency of Philip of 
 Macedon. See Cramer's Greece, i. 392, Mannert, vii. 588, 
 and the authors there cited. 
 
 uioUiia xrjg TQ(xyiyS,g (sc. dQa^uru). The ancient tragic 
 poets, notwithstanding what is here said, occasionally pro- 
 duced pieces which did not have a tragic termination. 
 Such are, besides the Orestes, the Furies of vEschylus, the 
 Philoctetes of Sophocles, the Ion, Helena, and Iphigenia 
 in Tauris, of Euripides. But it must be confessed, that the 
 feelings excited by tragedy are less sustained in the Alces- 
 tis, after her supposed death, than in any other tragedy that 
 has come down to us. In its catastrophe this play bears 
 some resemblance to the " Winter's Tale " of Shakspeare. 
 
 On the dramatis persona it may be observed, that only 
 two characters converse on the stage together, excepting in 
 the scene where the boy Eumelus speaks. This is the case 
 also in the Medea, but in no other play of Euripides, and 
 in none of Sophocles. This arrangement would make it 
 possible for two actors to perform all the parts except that of 
 
NOTES. 59 
 
 the child, and would render superfluous the third one of the 
 actors assigned to each of the contending poets by the 
 archon. See on this subject Elmsley's Medea, notes on the 
 dramatis persona, and his review of Marklaud's Supplices 
 (Quart. Rev. No. 14). 
 
 ON THE PLAY. 
 
 1. to dwpaza. Here there is an exclamation, without any 
 address following it. The Andromache and Electra of 
 Euripides begin in the same way. See Mt. § 312. 6. 
 
 2. iv oig — aivsoou, in which I deigned to put up with a 
 hired laborer's fare. %ilr\v here denotes bearing or en- 
 during that which is beneath one's situation. Comp. 572. 
 
 « &TJaaca>, properly the feminine of xb/'c, is here used 
 
 adjectively instead of &7}tixrjv. Soph. Gr. ^ 136. N. 3. 
 
 aireoai, to acquiesce in, put up with. This is a modification 
 of the idea of praising or of assenting to, which alvioy so 
 often has. Faint praise, or mere assent, is acquiescence. 
 ahuv seems to have meant at first to tell, bid, advise. 
 Hence came the signification to approve, to praise. To 
 approve is sometimes to assent to, as in v. 525, and to con- 
 sent to or grant, when a request is made, as in v. 12. 
 
 5. oi>, on whose (or, it may be, on which) account. Verbs 
 denoting to be angry often take a genitive of that, on ac- 
 count of which the feeling is aroused. Comp. Antig. 1177. 
 
 7. unoiva is in apposition with &rjTtveiv. Soph. Gr. 
 § 167. N. 4. Apollo was placed in this condition, as a 
 satisfaction or atonement for having shed blood. In this 
 the fable copies the usages of early times in Greece, when 
 exile, during one or more years, was an ordinary atonement 
 for manslaughter. 
 
 8. Let the learner notice the accusative without a prepo- 
 sition after verbs of motion, which is exceedingly common 
 in the tragic poets. Comp. 413, 545, 560, 872; Soph. Gr. 
 
60 ALCESTIS. 
 
 § 170. ifiovyoQfiovv. As Apollo is called a shepherd 
 
 in v. 572, this word is probably taken here in the wide sense 
 of tending flocks, as well as herds. So fiovxoUb), in Iliad xx. 
 221, is used of tending horses. 
 
 9. eo(o£ov, for brevity's sake, includes oco£w also. Hence 
 
 the use of eg xod' fj^egag is justified, ig xod' rjfxegag =■ 
 
 sig xavxr\v ttjv rjfieguv. This and similar phrases are common 
 both in the poets and prose writers. The genitive is that, 
 in respect of which the demonstrative is asserted. 
 
 11. The ordinary idiom would be ov e'gQvaafirjv ^ &avuv, 
 (Comp. Orest. 599), or ano, ex, davuxov, or davuxov without 
 a preposition: comp. v. 770. After many verbs containing 
 a negative idea, an infinitive usually takes pj; but occa- 
 sionally the infinitive is annexed without ^?j. See Mt. § 434, 
 4, 3; Soph. Gr. §225. 3. The distinction seems to be 
 this ; the infinitive with [irj expresses the result of the ac- 
 tion ; without [irj, that, in reference to which deliverance is 
 effected. 
 
 12. Molqag dolcoaag. According to the Scholiast, the fable 
 made Apollo obtain this of the Fates, after he had intoxi- 
 cated them with wine. The Greeks thought, that the decree 
 of the Fates could be modified, or suspended in its execu- 
 tion, but not without their own consent. Comp. Herodot. 
 l.$9l. 
 
 13. Wakefield takes xbv nagavxlxa by itself, as though 
 there were an ellipsis of xqovov. Comp. xbv ael for xbv ael 
 Xqovov, Soph. Electr. 1075. There is, however, no reason 
 for separating these words from cl Aidtjv, which here denotes 
 death. ________ — 
 
 14. diaXld$avxa, on condition that he gave in exchange, sc. 
 avxl eotvxov. This compound of alhwata scarcely occurs 
 elsewhere in the tragic poets in this sense. 
 
 16. txixxe. The imperfect and present participle of xlaxw 
 are sometimes used for the aorist and aorist participle, with- 
 out any difference of sense. Soph. Gr. § 210 N. 3. Comp. 
 
NOTES. 61 
 
 338, Soph. Electr. 342, CEd. R. 1247, with the numerous 
 passages where ttsxov and 7) xexovoa are found, ol TtxovTEg, 
 however, in the sense parents, is, I suspect, alone used. 
 See the note on Prometh. 667, for this confusion of tenses. 
 
 17. rjTig really refers to an implied accusative after svqs 
 (or rather contains in itself that accusative), and would 
 naturally be oang ; but, by a sort of attraction not uncom- 
 mon in the poets, it is put in the same gender with yvvaixog- 
 
 In v. 18, pjxsV, the old reading, broke the connexion 
 
 of the members of the sentence. Hence Monk and Wake- 
 field, after Reiske, give &avc6v for &avslv, and therefore oang 
 for TfTig. But [ir t d' IV, the conjecture of Musgrave and 
 Barnes, is found in the Copenhagen MS. 
 
 19. iv xtgotv. Admeti puta et famulorum. Utuntur enim 
 duali (rov %&iq) ubi de pluribus loquuntur. Pflugk. 
 
 20. ipv^oggayovaa is explained by Troades 751, nvii^i 
 unoQoi^ag az&ev. ipv%OQQuyti occurs v. 143, which Hesych- 
 ius explains by ano&vijoy.si. 
 
 22. The poets sometimes speak of the gods, as being 
 polluted, like men, by the contact or presence of the dead. 
 In Hippolyt. 1437, cited by Monk, Diana says, when Hip- 
 polytus is dying, " Farewell, for I may not look upon the 
 dead, nor pollute my countenance with deadly exhalations" 
 (i. e. with the last breath of the dying). Hermann remarks 
 that Apollo and Diana only could not look upon a dying 
 person, and that this notion arose from the belief that they 
 produced death by shooting their darts from a distance. 
 This again they were represented as doing, to indicate 
 symbolically that they presided over natural death ; the 
 cause of which is unseen, xlxff, 2 aor. from v.iyxdva. 
 
 24. rovds may be rendered by here. " The demonstra- 
 tives often stand, especially in the nominative and accusa- 
 tive, for the adverbs here, there, as the person or thing 
 mentioned was, as it were, pointed at with the finger." 
 Mt. §471, 12; Buttmann, § 127, 1; Soph. Gr. § 149. 
 
4 
 
 62 ALCESTIS. 
 
 N. 1. See 137, 234, 507, 1006, and very many other in- 
 stances. 
 
 25. Uqtj. He is so called, as sacrificing those who die to 
 the powers below. Comp. v. 76. The form % for ia is 
 common to the epic and tragic poets. See Buttm. § 52, 
 note 1; Soph. Gr. § 44. N. 1. Elmsley held iu, forming, 
 by synizesis, one syllable, to be the true reading, wherever 
 
 the accus. in fj from svg is found in the tragic poets. 
 
 ■fravovicov follows Ugfj on account of the idea of sacrificing, 
 which lies in that word. For the genitive of the victim 
 after Ugsvg, comp. Here. Fur. 450. 
 
 26. ov^hgoog, at the right time. avfi/xsTgog means cor- 
 responding in measure, thence suiting as to measure, and is 
 then used to denote correspondence or congruity in other 
 things, as space, time, color. In Soph. Antig. 387, noia 
 ^v/^fiETQog 7iQov(3r]v tvxj) ; the sense is, what circumstance did 
 I come forward just at the right time for ? 
 
 29. xt ov TJjds noltig, why dost thou move about here ? 
 ov is emphatic. Comp. Orest. 1269, xig ods nolu a[A<pl 
 [tdla&Qov ; this verb is also active, as in ^Esch. Pers. 307, 
 nolel vrjaov, haunts, or floats about, the island. 
 
 31. acpopi£6[isvog, determinant, limitibus circumscribens. 
 
 Hermann. Tifidg = yigct, the prerogatives , rights, 
 
 office, of the respective gods in the division of the world. 
 Comp. v. 53, and Prometh. 229. 
 
 34. inl jjjd', sc. Alcestis, taken with cpgovosig. In 
 
 v. 35, oTilloag x&Q a to^qtj z= oniiaag xsoa wots to^qi] sivcu, 
 i. e. xoifo). See Antig. 791. 
 
 36. rods refers forward to the infinitive ngo&ccvslv, as the 
 demonstratives often do. Comp. 371, where rude refers to 
 ya[Auv, 372, and Medea, 259, where xoaoviov refers to oiyav, 
 263. For to<5' Elmsley and Monk would have us read t6&\ 
 without any sufficient reason. 
 
 37. For fj — nsllov Tiatg, see Soph. Gr. § 157. Rem. 6. 
 
 38. xedvoiig Xoyovg, good reasons. The same phrase in 
 
NOTE, f^ *• 
 
 Rhesus 272, means, words worth the hearing, v.edvoq is 
 used by the Attic poets in as general a sense as xr/Xog or 
 
 uyuOog. joi is the reading of the Copenh. MS. ; for 
 
 which most edd. have je. 
 
 40. Wakefield cites on this verse " nunquam humeris 
 positurus arcum," from Horat. Od. iii. 4, GO. 
 
 41. ye in replies often answers to yes. The preceding 
 remark is then admitted, but restricted : see 47, 62, 374, 
 404, 524; Antig. 518, 749. The student would do well to 
 remember that this is only one of the forms, under which 
 the affirming but limiting power of ye appears. It may also 
 be often rendered by certainly, at least, indeed, even, or by 
 
 mere emphasis. acptXiu is followed by the dative or the 
 
 accusative. Mt. § 391 ; Soph. Gr. § 196, N. 1. 
 
 46. apefyas == dia)J.u$ag, v. 14, having given as a substi- 
 tute, afjeiipai, however, in 462, means to receive in exchange. 
 This verb means to pass over or across, (1.) in the sense of 
 going across, (2.) in that of transferring or exchanging, of 
 
 giving or receiving in exchange. r ( y.eiv is always in sense 
 
 a perfect, denoting to have come, to be here. 
 
 47. vegzeqav vno %&6vcc, under the ground beneath, or 
 within the earth, ad inferos =z vno %&6va simply. This 
 phrase is found in Here. Fur. 335 ; Cresphont. frag. 16. 
 
 48. old' civ el. uv here, and in similar cases, ,is trans- 
 posed from its proper place, and really belongs to neioai t ui. 
 Porson, regarding this transposition as too harsh, read «V 
 for av in a precisely similar passage, Medea, 937 (941). 
 But this transposition is now admitted by all good scholars. 
 See Mt. § 599, 3; Monk's note on this passage ; Elmsley 
 on Medea 911; Hermann on the particle av (Classical 
 Journal, No. 72, p. 222). av is necessary in this case. 
 Comp. Xen. Cyrop. i. 6, 41, ovx old' eyoiye ei' Tiva Unoig av 
 twv noXe^icav : Aristoph. Birds 1018, ovn oidd y el y&alrjg 
 av. These examples, cited by Matthis and Elmsley, show 
 it in its proper clause. 
 
64 ALCESTIS. 
 
 49. tovto is a substitute for ktuvuv : there is therefore no 
 ellipsis of noulv here. Pflugk refers this to the idiom tu$iv 
 Taooofxai, tovto being the same with -iavTi]v xr\v tu^lv, as it 
 points to the abstract idea of the verb. 
 
 50. (itXXovoi, who delay to die, when the proper time has 
 come; i. e. who are old enough to die. 
 
 51. I'xw loyov, I possess, i. e. understand your meaning. 
 
 52. lax — oncag ; is there any way in which ? or, in any 
 manner, by any means. loxi is often joined with relative 
 adverbs, and, — its proper subject being at first suppressed 
 and then lost sight of, — forms an adverbial phrase with 
 them. Thus ovx tu&' onoi, v. 113, there is no place to 
 which, or to no place whatsoever; £<j#' oxs, v. 1109, ali- 
 quando ; ovx so& cog, Antig. 750. ton is also thus joined 
 with the relative itself, as in the common phrase saxiv oX, 
 and the word evioi, according to some, is made out of snfor 
 
 h'toTi and ot. Com p. Mt. § 4S2. poloi. The optative 
 
 in independent interrogative sentences usually takes «V, but 
 not always. Thus we have %Lg xaido^oi, Antig. 605. Comp. 
 Soph. Gr. § 217. 2. 
 
 56— 59. The sense is, though she should die an old ivoman, 
 she shall have a rich burial. Death replies, You make your 
 law, Phoebus, in favor of the wealthy. Apollo. How did 
 you say ? But are you really even a logician, without my 
 knowing it ? Death. They who have the means would (in 
 
 that case) purchase liberty to die old. e^ovicov =s= f/oV- 
 
 xcav xgyfiona. Comp. Cress, frag. (8 Matth.), xiov fyorxcav 
 ndvxtg uv&Qianoi cplkoi. oig tkxqsoxi, sc. to lovnofrai, im- 
 plied in cordlvxo. Hermann translates cordlvxo — yi]om- 
 oi/£ davtlv, emerent grandavos mori quos vivere cupiunt ; 
 referring ytjoouovg not merely to the subject of covoivxo, but 
 to others whom they wished to keep alive. The Scholiast 
 adopts the construction covoivxo yriquiovg, coots Savuv, they 
 would hire old men to die for them. But there was no 
 
NOTES. 65 
 
 reason, why the rich should hire old men to die for them, 
 rather than young. 
 
 63. 7) f.n]v } assuredly, or yet assuredly ; not nihilominus, 
 as Monk renders these particles. 
 
 67. " Ordo est," says Wakefield, " o^<ua in xonwv Oq/j- 
 xtjs : currum qui est in Thracia." But it is better to take 
 m xoncov with nifupavxog pixa ; the idea of bringing being 
 
 implied in this connexion. Xnntiov o/j t (xa, like xixocaqov 
 
 aqua, v. 483, means, the horses, without necessarily imply- 
 ing the chariot. Comp. ciqfuaoi evdldcaai, y.ivxqov, Here. Fur. 
 881 ; uoslqcoxov 'Qvyolg o^^iuu, chariot-horses not bound by a 
 yoke, i. e. held only by the rein, Ion 1150, where see Mus- 
 grave's note. 
 
 72. nliov is used as a noun, and denotes furtherance, 
 advantage, profit. Some of the phrases in which it occurs 
 are, xl nliov,- zihat is the use? ovdsv £q nliov noiu, I do 
 nothing to advantage, Soph. CEd. R. 918; xl nqoo&slfirjv 
 nliov ; ichat advantage should 1 have accruing? Soph. 
 Antig. 40; oV ovdsv j\v sqsviMoiv nliov, when they got no 
 advantage by searching, Id. 268. So nliov lafislv, nqaoosiv, 
 iqya^so&aL occur. In v. 745 we have si' xl nliov «ot' aya- 
 &o1g, if the good have any advantage, if they are better off. 
 
 73. i) d' ovr yvvr\i mulier quidem certe ; Pflugk : but the 
 woman at any rate, etc. ovv serves to make an affirmation 
 stronger, when a person adheres to his purpose, notwith- 
 standing the objections of another. Mt. § 625. 
 
 74. Death performs the act, which priests were wont to 
 do, in consecrating the victim. y.uxuq/ofiui is almost tech- 
 nically used concerning the commencing rites at sacrifices, 
 especially that of cutting off and burning hairs. Hence 
 Hesych. defines xaxaq^aadoa xov Isqsiov by xwv xqixwv uno- 
 onaoui. But the term is taken in a wider sense for any of 
 the commencing rites, e. g. sprinkling the victim with lustral 
 water, sprinkling ovlo^vxag or coarsely ground barley on its 
 
 7 
 
66 ALCESTIS. 
 
 head. For this note I am indebted to Monk, and especially 
 to Kiister on Aristoph. Birds 959. 
 
 75. uQoq &swv, devoted to the gods as a victim. The 
 genitive is that of the possessor. Comp. Mt. § 315, 1 ; 
 Soph. Gr. § 174. N. . 
 
 76. a/plot]. Macrobius, Saturnal. 5. 19, " ayvloai Graece 
 
 dicunt diis consecrare." orpv should regularly have av 
 
 with the subjunctive. Soph. Gr. § 214. 4. For its omission 
 
 see Mt. § 527, Obs. 2. zyx°9i usea " on h °f tne spear 
 
 by Homer, is taken as a general word for weapon by the 
 tragic poets, and often, as here, answers to ^Icpog. 
 
 This prologue is less awkward than many in Euripides, 
 e. g. than that of the Troades, of Hippolytus, of Ion. Both 
 Apollo and Death have a probable ground for being on the 
 spot at this juncture. The opening speech of Apollo is 
 rather an address to the audience, than a soliloquy. The 
 ensuing dialogue wants dignity, at least where Apollo tries 
 to chaffer with Death Almost all the plays of Euripides 
 begin with a direct narration of whatever the poet judged 
 to be necessary for the understanding of the piece. This 
 departure from the usual practice of iEschylus and Sopho- 
 cles, and from the rules of art, was probably occasioned by 
 the necessity under which Euripides was placed, of varying, 
 for the sake of novelty, from the commonly received versions 
 of the heroic fables. 
 
 The chorus should always have a probable ground for 
 convening. This is the case here ; for it consists of old 
 men of Pheraj, who come to condole with their lord. In 
 several plays of our author, either there is no reason for the 
 assembling of the chorus in the nature of the plot, or it is 
 placed in absurd situations. Thus in the Medea, she pro- 
 jects the murder of their own sovereign before the members 
 of the chorus, and they listen patiently. The chorus divides 
 on entering the orchestra, and the two parts question one 
 another as to the state of the family within. A song is 
 
V 
 
 NOTES. 67 
 
 then sung, the burden of which is, that the deliverance of 
 Alcestis from death is impossible (112-136). A maid, 
 hearing the noise without the gate, comes out and gives a 
 minute and most affecting account of her mistress (137- 
 212). 
 
 79. Elms, would strike out Tig, as ovdeig rig seldom oc- 
 curs, and some MSS. omit it. Monk therefore gives nilag 
 tux ovdsig. t/V oidslg is found in Herodot. and in late 
 writers. 
 
 80. tl'noi is read, because that is a faulty anapaest, in 
 which a dactyl in the second or fourth place follows an 
 anapaest in the first or third. 
 
 88. nsnyayiuroi in yEsch. Choeph. 13"2, means confeeti, 
 those icith ichom all is over; and diamngayiAsrog is often 
 used in the same signification. But here nsngayixirav is 
 neuter and genitive absolute : a lament as though all was 
 over. It is the impersonal ninquY.Tot.i put into the participial 
 form. Soph. Gr. % 192. Ns. 3, 4. 
 
 90. orarl^rai = ardoiv fyei, i. e. for the purpose of an- 
 nouncing the event and calling in mourners. 
 
 91. fjiTaxtfiiog liiijg = {ihiu tuv xv^udrcav rrjg uirjg. There 
 is, perhaps, an allusion here to Castor and Pollux, who were 
 thought to appear in storms to sailors, and to bring about a 
 calm. The force of pera in composition, the Scholiast 
 illustrates by psjaixfiiov, the space ^era^v tcov aixpav, btttceen 
 the spears, or armies. For f* ydg, see 536. 
 
 93. ov 77<Y, by crasis for ov rot ar, surely not, not though. 
 <fdifj.irag, sc. avtrjg, if she were dead. 
 
 94, 95. The others deny, yet in a doubting manner, that 
 which would account for the silence within, i. e. that she 
 had been carried out for burial, for surely she is not gone 
 
 from the dwelling. The reply is, How so ? I am not con- 
 fident. What encourages you ? no&sv. Interrogative 
 
 sentences often imply that a negative answer is expected, 
 and hence some interrogative phrases usually have a nega- 
 
68 ALCESTIS. 
 
 tive import. Comp. no&ev ydg ,• for whence could you know 
 it? i. e. it cannot be, 7S1. nov rods ,■ where is this? i. e. 
 it is impossible, 1075. And so in the phrase no&iv ydg ,- 
 nollov ys nal <5a, often used by Demosth. 
 
 96. egijfxov. Schol. xMffi? o%}.ov, private, without a pro- 
 cession. 
 
 98. Pollux 8. § 65 (vol. ii. p. 131, ed. Lips. 1824), says, 
 " Those who visited the house of a mourner, when they 
 went out, purified themselves by sprinkling with water. 
 This water was placed in an earthen vessel, and had been 
 brought from another house." The vessel was called dgdd- 
 viov, to oojgaaov, nr)youov. See Kiister on Aristoph. Ec- 
 cles. 1033. 
 
 102. The custom of cutting off part of the hair as a sign 
 of mourning is well known. Hence a lock was hung up at 
 
 the vestibule in token of affliction within. TOfiaiog. The 
 
 tragic poets observe no fixed rule about the endings of many 
 adjectives in og, but give them two or three, as best suits 
 the metre or style. We have in the feminine dgopcuog, 244 ; 
 oxoiiog, 125, but oxoTia, 269; w^cpidioi, 249; odrslos, 532, 
 but o&rsla, 646; &vga7og, 805 ; adliog, 1038; and eo^fiog, 
 925, which last has commonly but two endings in Attic 
 
 writers. a nnvu. The metre shows « to be a neuter 
 
 plural. Musgrave's Latin version translates this phrase by 
 quce fiunt. But it may be questioned whether tiitpS can 
 have this meaning of occurring, or taking- place, although 
 it may signify to fall or turn out. If it cannot, the neuter 
 plural must refer to %aixa, and the verb mean to fall or be 
 cut. For examples of this reference of a neuter plural 
 pronoun to a feminine noun, see Mt. § 439. But the 
 present, if an instance of this idiom, is in some respects 
 unlike those which Mt. gives. For tiltiu see the note on 
 v. 403. 
 
 103. veolccla = 6 vioq kewg. It is elsewhere a noun, but 
 here, according to the Scholiast, used adjectively, = via. 
 
NOTES. 69 
 
 Monk writes vsolala, making it a dative after je/g. This 
 word is pronounced in three syllables by synizesis, as -Otog 
 so often is in one. The allusion is to the wailing women 
 (prarficce), who sang their nenia, or Idhfioi, and in the pro- 
 cession went before the bier, beating their breasts. Comp. 
 Iliad xviii. 339; Jeremiah, ch. ix. 17. 
 
 105. xal u^Vy and yet. These particles often mean and 
 surely. 
 
 106. ri t65' avdag, what is this which you utter? The 
 student has probably often noticed this idiom of the Greek 
 language, by which an interrogative and a demonstrative 
 pronoun are united in one proposition (here in the accusa- 
 tive), whereas in English two clauses connected by a rela- 
 tive would be required. 
 
 108. When the same or a similar word is repeated in a 
 second clause, it is usually accompanied with ds, and piv is 
 often omitted in the first, ds may be conveniently rendered 
 by yes, or 1 say. Comp. Medea 131, sy.Xvov cpwvdv, sxlvov 
 ds (iodv. 
 
 111. ooTig xQi'iOtog. oarig may refer to the subject of 
 nsp&uv, or to iwv uya&av. (Soph. Gr. § 150. N. 5.) The 
 latter gives, I think, the true sense. " We ought to mourn 
 when the good are in calamity ; — whenever one is in such 
 a state, who like Admetus has been held from the first to 
 be a worthy man." The words thus express the recollec- 
 tions of the aged chorus, who had known Admetus from his 
 boyhood. 
 
 1 12 - 117. The sense is, but one could not deliver the life 
 of the unhappy one, even by sending an expedition to any 
 
 part of the Lycian land, or the dry abode of Amnion. 
 
 ^ — fo$' 07TCH are taken together, and followed by al'ag. 
 
 S ee Vi 52. J— sirs = ? — ?. Mt. § 617. Avxlag 
 
 Monk changes into jivxlav, depending on enl, as the prepo- 
 sition is often expressed before the second, and not before 
 the first of two nouns. Then al'ag would mean the earth. 
 
 7* 
 
70 ALCESTIS. 
 
 But neither the construction, nor authorities for the text, 
 demand this change. Allusion is made to the oracles in 
 Lycia, one of which, that at Patara, was in great repute, 
 and so were the diviners of Telmessus in early times. (He- 
 rodot. i. 78.) The oracles of remote regions are spoken of, 
 not as being in higher credit than those of Greece, but in 
 order to show that there was no help for Alcestis in any part 
 of the world. nagaXvoou, sc. &avarov. The construc- 
 tion demands the optative, although nugalvaai has the 
 authorities for the text in its favor. This is a rare word in 
 the Attic poets. Comp. v. 932, and Pindar, Olyrap. ii. 95. 
 to ivxuv — nctQwlvti dvocpyovwr, to win- sets free from cares, 
 av is omitted as in v. 52. 
 
 116. " The worship of Ammon, long before the time of 
 Alexander the Great, was propagated from Cyrene through 
 Greece, and prevailed especially in Sparta, Elis, and Thebes. 
 He was worshipped also at Athens, and sacred deputations 
 (■&ea)ouxi) were sent to his temple. Aristoph. Birds 618, 
 xovx elg dskyovg ovd' tig ^pf' | eldovitg exu xtvoopsv.' 
 Boeckh's corpus inscript. 1. 352. 
 
 118. anoTo^iog, rugged, hard. Comp. 981. This word 
 Monk first put in the place of anoTfiog, in order to restore 
 the metre. 
 
 120. t/j'w is often put for ov riva in indirect inquiry, f/to, 
 here = olda. 
 
 122-129. x-Esculapius is here intended. See v. 4, the 
 notes on the Argument, and Virg. Mn. vii. 770. There is, 
 as Matthise remarks, an anacoluthum in 122- 126. Instead 
 of {tovog <5' av — rjXOsv nQoXinovoa, we should naturally 
 have bad ^ovog d' av — eiswosv avztjv. av belongs to tjkOev, 
 and [iovog must now be joined to the conditional clause. 
 — — hXe, overcame, slew. 
 
 139. dtoTcoTyg is correlative with dovlog. Thus in 210- 
 212, Admetus is called the 8sonoTi]g of the slave, but the 
 
NOTES. 71 
 
 y.oi'ortrog of his subjects. el' ti wyxuvet is euphemistic, 
 
 death being intended. Comp. 1023. 
 
 142. xul 7iwc ; and hoiv ? or but how? asks with surprise, 
 and often with objection, noig v.ai is used, when the fact is 
 known and the hoio or why is demanded. This remark, 
 which is in substance Hermann's, explains what is noticed 
 as a matter of fact, v. 482. 
 
 143. nqovtan^g. This word in v. 186 denotes bending 
 forward; in Andromache 729, forward, inclined; in iEsch. 
 
 Agam. 234, prone, fallen forward. In the text it seems to 
 denote inclined or ready to die, Schol. sig Saratov tjoovs- 
 vev/.vIu. 
 
 145. nu&jj. Here the other reading, nd&oi, would be a 
 solecism. Where future time is spoken of, and nglv is used, 
 it is ordinarily construed with an infinitive after an affirma- 
 tive clause, and with a subjunctive and «Y after a negative 
 one. This is Elmsley's rule, note on Medea 215. 
 
 146. eknlg is followed by an infinitive, like our noun hope. 
 The aorist after a word expressive of hope is as good Greek 
 as the future. And so we say in English, / hope to go, 
 and I hope that I shall go. Comp. 294, and see Lobeck's 
 
 Phrynichus, p. 745, seq. ilntg fxiv, spes ut vidctur. 
 
 Pflugk. Is there really no hope, etc. " psv is used in ques- 
 tions, where that which is asked is thought true, but ex- 
 pressed with the appearance of doubt." Mt. § 622. 6. 
 
 152. tig avuvTiowtTui — fig arteou. The next line 
 
 Monk translates, ichat must the icoman be that has surpassed 
 her 1 But, as t/^o?; yert'a&ai ; ought to mean, what ought to 
 become of? Matthise adopts Reiske's conjecture, rig pr, for 
 rl Xgij. The sense, with that reading, is, ivho (will dispute) 
 that she was the nonpareil of women ? 
 
 157. &av(.id<j£i, second person of 3av/xdoopai, the usual 
 future of dav^ou Soph. Gr. § 207. N. 5. 
 
 159. This is the only instance of trisyllabic feet concur- 
 ring in trimeters in this play. 
 
72 ALCESTIS. 
 
 160. dofutov here means closets or chests. It is used with 
 the latter signification in Hesiod, Op. 96. Something so 
 
 olxog has the sense of chamber. Alcestis does for herself 
 
 in expectation of speedy death, what was done for the dead 
 by surviving friends; she bathes herself and puts on her 
 best robes. 
 
 161. rjcfxrjactTo, she arrayed herself. So iEsch. Persae, 
 182, nsjiXoiOL JlSQGixolg i]oxi]^svr]. 
 
 163. Most probably the goddess here addressed was Arte- 
 mis or Hecate, who was especially honored at Pheree. 
 Comp. Spanheim on Callim. H. in Dian. 259, cited by 
 Monk, and Miiller, Dorer i. 320. 
 
 165. ogyavevoai, to take care of in orphanage. Comp. 
 
 297, and for the passive 535. The construction changes 
 
 at v. 166 from the infinitive dependent on mhrjaofieu to the 
 imperative, and back again in 168 to the infinitive. 
 
 167. r\ isxovoa governs a genitive here like a noun, 
 which is not a very common construction for the participle 
 to take. We have, however, o ixuvov texcov, Eurip. Electr. 
 335; gov %y\v rsxovaav, Ion 308, cited by Matthiae. 
 
 172. The myrtle was in common use for adorning the 
 head at festivals, (759, Eurip. Electr. 778,) for crowning the 
 altars and statues of some Gods, (Spanh. on Callim. H. in 
 Dian. 201-203,) and especially, as being an evergreen, 
 was made into chaplets worn by the dead, or placed on 
 tombs, (Eurip. Electr. 324, 512.) In the present case 
 Alcestis crowned the altars with myrtle, which, from its 
 
 - connexion with funeral ceremonies, was peculiarly appro- 
 priate, and, while prai/ing, cut off its leaves; denoting, ap- 
 parently, that, as the evergreen thus lost its leaves, so she 
 was to be soon cut off from life. 
 
 173. axkuvojog, uorsvaxxog, are here active. But such 
 adjectives are often passive also, as is axlavoiog in An- 
 tig. 29. 
 
NOTES. 73 
 
 174. Euripides forms both xq mt ^ ana " X(, JOf 'S from ^ow's ; 
 the former most usually. 
 
 175. ionsoovoa has a different shade of meaning with 
 ■frdlapov and with Xixog '■ with the first it is bursting into, 
 going into in a falling position ; with the other, throiving 
 herself upon. 
 
 176. drj makes a crasis with the e of edaxovos. 
 
 177. sXvoa xoQtvftaTa, solvi virginitatem. naqdivtia, 
 
 pertaining to my maiden state. ■Qvr i ox(x\ nsgl is far 
 
 rarer than &. vtcsq or &. tiqo, and Valckenaer says, that this 
 is the only instance which he has met with. But Monk 
 cites from Tyrtaeus, frag. i. 13, ney! Tialdwv &vr i oxw[.isv. 
 
 180. ti6vr]v, me only, i. e. no other woman has perished in 
 a similar manner, destroyed by marriage in this way. Blom- 
 field conjectured (jovov. noodovvai, to be faithless to. 
 
 182. This verse is parodied by Aristophanes, Knights 
 1250, where Cleon thus addresses his crown, which he is 
 giving up : 
 
 0) QTtCfCLVS, %ttl()(tiV 0C711&1, Xttl o' UY.toV tyCO 
 
 Xtinot ' oe <5' aXXog Jig Xafiwv xsxT^osTai, 
 xXsttttjq [lev ovx av fxuXXov, svTV/rjg <5 i'ocag. 
 
 crown, depart in peace : unwillingly 
 
 1 leave thee : some one else shall take and own thee, 
 No greater thief, but yet perhaps more fortunate. 
 
 The reading ov/l fiaXXov was probably an early emendation 
 for ovx av fxuXXov, in order to get rid of av. ovoa is under- 
 stood, and ovx av ovoa is equivalent to r t Ttg ovx av tl'rj. 
 Comp. Soph. Philoct. 572. ngog nolov av to'j<5' aviog ovdvo- 
 osvg tnXsi. i. e. nolog av ih] bds ngog ov, etc. I owe this 
 passage to Pflugk. 
 
 183, 184. xws7, dsvneti were first introduced into the 
 text by Porson, instead of xvvu, Ssvno. See v. 839. 
 
 186. noovwnrig, according to Matthise, is taken with 
 ixTisoovoa. But then axu/n stands entirely alone, and is 
 
74 ALCESTIS. 
 
 flat. The sense is, bursting aioay from off the bed, she 
 moves on, bending forward. 
 
 187. ansoTfjdyrj, rcdiit according to Monk. But t$iovoa, 
 being future, shows that she had not yet left the chamber. 
 It rather means, wandered around or over. This sense it 
 has in Ion 352, and elsewhere ; like the derivative emorobj- 
 
 cpdofictL. Buttmann (largest Gr. § 108. Obs. 23) says 
 
 that \fiov is never, but in one or two corrupt or misunderstood 
 places, an aorist participle, but always a present, or (like 
 the present slpi) in sense a future. 
 
 194. y.av.oc, mean, low. Let the student notice here 
 
 and in v. 198 the sequence ovzw — ov, and tooovtov — ov. 
 In both cases the second clause might begin with wois, 
 which is the more ordinary mode of expression. 
 
 197. The sense is, and if he had died he would indeed 
 have perished ; i. e. and that would have been the end of 
 
 his misery. t' «V = xoi av. But according to Hermann 
 
 x is here the copulative, with which de is joined* in the next 
 clause instead of another ts. Or, in other words, the 
 clauses are not only joined, but also contrasted. Comp. 
 Soph. Electr. 1097. We have y.sv — is, below, vv. 591- 
 595. Hermann's version is : ct perissrt Me etiam moriendo, 
 et, quitm effugit mortem, non minus per tit. 
 
 198. 7TOt' OV = OV7TOTS, aS IV OVA OV/.STl, Soph. CEd. 
 
 R. 24. But in the case of ovnoxs this transposition is very 
 rare, and the text is doubtful. Hermann, on Soph. Trachin. 
 160, renders ov noi ov Ulrjonai, cttjus aliquando (i. e. at 
 
 any time) non immemor erit. The forms x£xr>j-uo ( uai 
 
 (181), foh]uoi.iai, the latter rather rare, coexist with the proper 
 futures >mi]oofitti, Xi]oo^ai, without any difference in sense. 
 
 199. ri nov — ovTwg nov, surely, I think. Elmsley, on 
 Medea 1275, denies that ?) nov can have place in interroga- 
 tive sentences. If this is not always true, it is in the present 
 case ; for the chorus could not doubt so much about the 
 
NOTES. 75 
 
 grief of Admetus, as to inquire whether he felt it. See 
 Hermann's remarks on Elmsley's Medea, v. 14. 
 
 200. The clause following si is an explanation or epexe- 
 gesis of joialds aaxolg. 
 
 204. voisoj is to be taken both with the verb and the 
 participle. 7iuQtijut'vr t v vooco, bereft of strength by disease, 
 occurs Orest. 881, and lldhov (iaoog is said of Pentheus 
 carried in the hands, Bacchae 1216, which Monk cites. 
 Matthias gives voooj nocQiipevri ye, quippe morbo soluta : 
 comp. his Gram. § 602. Hermann reads 8r\, which I now 
 adopt. The MSS. have ds. 
 
 207, 208. These tame lines occur in their proper place 
 in Hecuba 411, 412. See Valckenaer on Hippolyt. 680. 
 (ed. Glasg.) 
 
 213. tig nu. A double interrogation, like rig, no&sv si, 
 Odys. i. 170. nag — i» rlvog vsw$ rjxsie, Helena 1543. See 
 also Antig. 2, 1342. 
 
 215. s&ihi rig, i. e. to tell that she is living. % jipca 
 
 tqIxw, i. e. or shall I mourn for her death ? So the Schol. 
 But Matthiae approves of Erfurdt's conjecture; rj, really, for 
 r\, or. But i] in a question implies surprise and doubt, 
 which would be out of place here. Major seems to have 
 hit the sense of this place better by laying the stress on 
 rjdn, at once ; " will any messenger come from the house, 
 or shall we at once, without waiting for news, express our 
 grief?" 
 
 217. <5;]/.a. As this sentence seems to be an answer, it 
 justifies us in dividing 213-219 between semichoruses, as 
 Matthiae first conjectured. The maid went into the house 
 at v. 212. I should prefer giving 220-225 to the whole 
 chorus, for all are called on (v. 219) to join in the prayer. 
 But if so, 234 - 237 must be given to it also. 
 
 223. Hermann from his own conjecture puts rovio into 
 the text after iysvQsg, and inserts a second ariva^v in the 
 
76 ALCESTIS. 
 
 answering line of the antistrophe after x^^ v - The measure 
 will then be trochaic dimeter, (two epitriti.) 
 
 228. ol ' snoaSag, how thou hast fared ! how much thou 
 hast suffered ! tcquoosiv with adverbs and some pronouns 
 means to be placed in circumstances, to fare. Comp. 245, 
 605, 961, 1023. 
 
 229. dga, nonne. uqu as well as dg ov, often implies that 
 the answer is to be affirmative, dga ntXdaoai is spoken 
 
 with reference to Admetus. Monk cites, in illustration 
 
 of this line, Soph. GEd. R. 1373, olv ipol dvolv \ %gy' > toil 
 KQilaoov ayxovriq ugyao^iha, i. e. deeds, for ivhich hanging 
 would be too good a death, would not be an expiation. In 
 the present case, the chorus says that hanging would not 
 sufficiently express the depth of the calamity of Admetus. 
 
 230. ovqccvIo) = (itjsojQCx), Schol., hung up aloft. It means 
 (1.) of the heavens, as ovgdviog noXog, Prometh. 430, comp. 
 164; (2.) in the heavens, thence lofty, Eurip. Electr. 860; 
 immense, Soph. Antig. 418. 
 
 237. naQaivo{i£vav xaia yug iiag\ by what is called con- 
 structs prcegnans, means wasting away and going beneath 
 the ground to. So a Scotch song has the expression " wear- 
 ing awcC to the land of the leil." 
 
 241. unXaxojv for (x^inXaxoiv, participle of rjftTiXcacor, ijnXa- 
 v.ov — ijpaQTov, an aorist from a disused present, fi is omit- 
 ted in the forms derived from this aorist when the measure 
 requires it. The English Scholars write dnXaxav, etc., on 
 all occasions, but the forms with p have ample authority. 
 The common derivation of this word is from d and nXd^co', 
 but dpfiXaHsh' and its derivatives in Hesychius, spelt in 
 some dialect with j3, seem to bring it nigh to dfi^Xianoj, with 
 which also it has some connexion in sense. 
 
 242. The sense is, he will live during the time afterwards 
 in a manner not to be called life, i. e. will pass a life not 
 worth living. cJ/3/wtov is the predicate of xqojov, or %q6vov 
 may be again supplied with it. An adverb might stand in 
 
NOTES. 77 
 
 its place. The phrase d^lonog filog is found in prose writers, 
 as Demosth. c. Mid. u t jicoTov ojex' avxoj zoso&ou tov filov. 
 
 243. By a happy art of the poet, the chorus come to their 
 sovereign's house as ignorant of the exact truth about Al- 
 cestis as the audience was; and, by their natural and sym- 
 pathizing questions, place us in possession of the circum- 
 stances. Their song is most artless, and grows out of the 
 subject. The maid has a good reason for appearing, and 
 her touching description of her mistress prepares the way 
 for the appearance of Alcestis herself. The poet's concep- 
 tion of her is psychologically correct: she is a creature 
 of feeling and love ; resolved to die for her husband, yet 
 overwhelmed at the thought of leaving all that is joyous in 
 life. Such tender souls, that can renounce the most under 
 the influence of love, have the deepest sense of what they 
 leave behind, and the strongest desire to be remembered. 
 In vv. 205, 206, the poet artfully gives a reason for the 
 appearance of Alcestis without the gates : — she wishes to 
 take a last look at the glad sunbeams, which she could not 
 do so well in the court within. The burst of feeling in the 
 ensuing scene is one of incomparable beauty. A tender 
 poet, Racine, in the preface to his "Jphigenie" calls it 
 " une scene marveilleuse," alluding especially to 252, seq. 
 
 Alcestis continues speaking to v. 391, when she bids fare- 
 well, and swoons away, seeming to die. Her little son then 
 wails for her (393-415). Admetus orders a general mourn- 
 ing (420-434), and goes in to prepare for her funeral, and 
 the chorus, left alone, sing a most exquisite ode in her 
 praise (440 - 475). 
 
 244. dUrai, circuits. 
 
 245. oou, sc. c 'u).iog, the most prominent object that she 
 had mentioned. 
 
 252. Pflugk cites from Aristoph. Lysistr. 605 - 607, 
 
 rov disc ; ii no&slg ; X^Qti 's ir(V vuvv. 
 
 8 
 
78 ALCESTIS. 
 
 o Xaqoiv as y.aXu, 
 
 oil di xulvtig avdyio&ai. 
 
 which is probably a parody on the beautiful passage in the 
 text. Southey has a fine passage something like this in the 
 Curse of Kehama, Canto 20. 
 
 " Nor boots it, with reluctant feet 
 To linger on the strand ! 
 Aboard ! aboard ! 
 An awful voice 
 That left no choice 
 Sent forth its stern command." 
 
 255. av xatslgystg idds, thou rctardest things here. 
 
 tola is used adverbially, — oviwg. A reading, toj<5' hoipa, 
 in this line seems to have come from rdde, rold ^e, differently 
 divided, pe was added, as often, by the scribes, but is 
 found in all the MSS. which read Tola, and in others which 
 have xol or ti. 
 
 256. Bitter to me is this voyage which thou spakcst of. 
 Here two propositions are condensed into one, as is the case 
 of the demonstrative and interrogative (106). There is 
 great force and liveliness in this Greek idiom. 
 
 261. xvavavy&oi, darkly beaming or glittering. This 
 epithet is joined with the brows instead of the eyes, because 
 the dark and frowning brows, as the most expressive feature, 
 seemed to have the light of the eyes concentrated in them. 
 The poet thought of Homer's famous description of Jupiter, 
 xvavsijow in ocpovai vevos, or of the Jupiter Olympius of 
 Phidias, which was modelled after these words of Homer 
 
 not long before. nitQwiog. Wings are here given to 
 
 Hades, as they are to Death and Orcus in other passages of 
 authors cited by Jacobs and Musgrave on v. 843 (859). 
 Thus Seneca says, CEdip. 164, "Mors — explicat omnes 
 alas," and Gratius, Cyneget. 348, "Orcus — nigris orbem 
 circumsonat alis." Hades is also called ^layxahi}g in 438, 
 
NOTES. 79 
 
 and (iskupmnXog in 843, from the association of the color 
 
 with mourning and death. jig "Aidag est nescio quis 
 
 On us. id est, nescio quod simulacrum Orci. Herm. 
 
 262. tZ Qi'Stig ; acf.sc, are spoken to Hades. 
 
 204. Tcor, them. The article is used for the demonstra- 
 tive. 
 
 266. Alcestis must be thought of, as standing and sup- 
 ported by her husband and attendants, fts&ete expresses 
 her desire, that they would not hold her up any longer. 
 
 267. adivo) ttogi'v : so yjigl o&nsig, Cyclops 651. 
 
 272. xaloovzeg here, and often, preserves its literal sense. 
 There is a distinct wish of happiness to the person ad- 
 dressed. At other times it is a mere formula of parting. 
 
 Comp. 436 with 323. boonov. Monk has edited boojx^v 
 
 in obedience to a precept of Elmsley, who, on Aristoph. 
 Acharn. 733 (698 Bek.), and Medea 1041, lays it down, that 
 the second and third persons dual were not distinct forms, 
 and that both ended in -rp in the historic tenses and the 
 optative. In v. 661, all the MSS. read .'4\lXa\uxv\v i 2nd per- 
 son dual, in conformity with this rule. But Schaefer, Butt- 
 mann, and others, hesitate about admitting the truth of 
 Elmsley's precept. Probably -r t v was at first the ending of 
 both persons in the dual ; but -or, afterwards introduced, 
 was in good use, and was not, as Elmsley thinks, the inven- 
 tion of the Alexandrine grammarians. 
 
 275. Here we have the usual confused arrangement of 
 words in entreaties, and an ellipsis of Ixstsvca or anoftai. 
 The order is, (Ixstivm) as 7ig6g &sgjv, f.ir t r)S t g — 
 
 277. Porson on Medea 325, and editors since, have written 
 ura (= avaoTijd-t) jolua in two words, as the cditio princeps 
 of Lascaris had it. avaxolpuoj seems not to have been in 
 use. zolua, summon the courage or strength. 
 
 278. iv ool <5' ioutv. iv tin that means to be in one's 
 power, to depend upon one. Comp. Soph. QEd, R. 314. 
 
 ( 
 

 80 ALCESTIS. 
 
 282. TiQsofitvovaa = ji^woa. Compare iEsch. Choeph. 
 488, Jiaviojv de TiQWiov Tovde ngeufisvow zaopov. 
 
 285. According to Monk a new sentence should begin 
 here, naoov being repeated after alia. But alia merely 
 contracts o%uv — xal valuv with p? &avuv. The sentence, 
 according to Hermann, is one with a double apodosis, and 
 a protasis placed between them. The protasis is nagbv — 
 Tvgawlbi ; the first apodosis eyco — &vr t ov.m ; and the second, 
 which is a repetition of the first in sense, ovx rftih^a, etc. 
 — — For the construction of nagov, i]y.ov, 291, and the like, 
 
 see Butt. § 145, note 7. o^slv avdga, to have for a 
 
 husband, (tovtov) Osooalwv ov i\&tlov. In 286 take 
 
 rvgairldi with olfttov, flourishing with sovereign power. 
 
 288. Both ecptiaa{ii]v and fyovoa are taken with dwga r]/5r]g ; 
 only that the participle, being the nearest word, determines 
 the case, and not the verb, which requires a genitive. 
 
 291. The sense is, while it was highly proper for them 
 in point of age to die. yxnv with an adverb takes a geni- 
 tive ; an idiom occurring five or six times in Herodotus, 
 and borrowed from him by later Greeks, but rare in Attic 
 writers. See Valckenaer on Herod, vii. 157 ; and Mt. 
 § 337, who has cited the three examples of its use in 
 Euripides. 
 
 295. This line is repealed at v. 651. 
 
 298. Comp. Antig. 303. 
 
 29 J. Render this line, remember thankfulness for this 
 towards me, for I shall never ask of thee a clue degree of it. 
 Comp. Thucyd. i. 137, Jiei&ofisrco <5' amy /ugir (I'cpr/) ano- 
 livi]o£o!}m a^lav. thv is often used in transitions. 
 
 305. Iniya^uv, to bring by marriage over. In Orest. 
 589 this verb denotes to marry besides or after. 
 
 309. zmovoa. Herod., 4. 154, uses ensosl&ovoa in the 
 same way, of a second wife entering a family after the 
 death of a first. foirgviu has long d. 
 
 312. Repeated from 195, and plainly out of place. 
 
NOTES. 81 
 
 313. y.oozvouai is passive, not middle, and after the anal- 
 ogy of oQcpuiEvo^ai (535) means, I am brought up during 
 virginity. 
 
 314. This verse is an explanation of n<ag in 313. How, 
 viz. having what kind of mother-in-law ? Wiistemann cites 
 as an instance of the same construction, Soph. Philoct. 
 1264, tI yC i%y.(xXeio&s ; too xtXQrjfitvoi $£vol> 
 
 315. Supply didoixa before ^tj. 
 
 317. ov — ovze — ovts. ov denies the whole, ovts — ovts 
 the parts. So 332, 345. Comp. Mt. § 609. 
 
 321. TQiTtjv y.i]v6q. Musgrave says that he can find no 
 reason why ut]>6g should be used. The Schol. paraphrases 
 the passage, as though furjvog were idle ; ovd' tig xi)v nvqiov 
 too fjirjvog tovtov, ovd' sig ttjv utxa %i\v avoiov ; and in this 
 he appears to be right. Monk supposes an allusion in these 
 words to the custom at Athens, of making those who were 
 to be capitally punished drink the hemlock within three 
 days. But this had nothing to do with the third day of the 
 month, and the phrase simply denotes hereafter, as the 
 Hebrews said yesterday and the day before for heretofore. 
 
 322. fo'l-ouai is in sense a future passive, / shall be num- 
 bered, as are many futures middle. See Buttm. § 113. 5; 
 Soph. Gr. § 207. N. 6. 
 
 325. ur/TQog. Supply uplovrjg. 
 
 326. All the MSS. have ov %a£o[mi ; but Barnes, and most 
 editors since him, have divided these words so as to read 
 ovx ulo(.iut. This latter verb takes an infinitive in Heraclidae 
 600, dvocprjutlv yug u'^opai -dsar. The only other place 
 where either verb occurs in Eurip. is Orestes 1116, dig 
 ■&avsiv ov x^ofiaif and here some MSS. have ov% afcauai, 
 which Elmsley (Heracl. loc. cit.) prefers. But x(x£o t uca, 
 synonymous with cpsvyta, suits that passage better than 
 ci'Cofiai, which has a kindred sense with didoixa. The former 
 is found nowhere else in the tragic poets, but the latter is 
 used twice by Soph., and three times by iEsch., e. g. Furies 
 
 8* 
 
82 ALCESTIS. 
 
 
 \ 
 
 367 (389), ilg ovv tad' ov% ageraits xul dtdoixs (jqotwv, where 
 the same variant occurs. 
 
 331. The sense is, shall address this one (me) as her 
 husband. But Hermann, followed by Pflugk, joins rovd' 
 avdoa (me) and separates rvficpr) from OEooaXlg. The sense 
 thus becomes, nulla me Thessala, ut spousa, alloquetur. 
 The position of vv^icpi] before OsaoaUg favors this explana- 
 tion. 
 
 333. alloig, else, yet. Comp. v. 533. 
 
 334. olig is the predicate of ytvdo&ai. 
 
 336. to oov 7iiv&og, grief for thee. Comp. 370, 426, 895. 
 itijaiov, during a year. Comp. 431. Adjectives espe- 
 cially of time and place often perform the part of a noun 
 and preposition. 
 
 340. xa op/AiMTw, — a favorite phrase of Eurip., — means 
 
 either life, as here, or any of the dearest relatives. For 
 
 uga of the next line see 229. 
 
 346. Qaiqeiv cpqira, to lift up the mind, incite it to do 
 
 (especially something inordinate or improper.) lay.uv 
 
 (lixanoj, h]xiw) to cry, gabble, talk aloud, is here spoken of 
 singing to the pipe which is called Libyan, as being made 
 out of the wood of the African lotus-tree. See Schneider, 
 Index in Theophrast. voce Awto'c. 
 
 350. Both niQimvoGtiv ^stoa? tivi, and tceqititvooeiv xivu 
 are used. In the former case the preposition and verb are 
 not so closely united as to form a proper compound. Comp. 
 Elmsley on Medea 1175. 
 
 353. ipvxQuv TEQipiv is in apposition with the preceding 
 sentence. See v. 7, and Mt. § 432, 5. Such clauses are 
 usually put in the accusative, because the context implies 
 the idea of noiuv. 
 
 355. (fllog. Most MSS. and old edd. read cplXoig. Two 
 MSS. (fllovg : and so Elmsley. One has epilog, and ylXov 
 appears in the second edition of Eurip. by Hervagius (1544). 
 The first reading embarrasses the sentence ; and the second 
 
NOTES. 83 ^rn 
 
 may have easily sprung from it by emendation. The third 
 is idiomatic and elegant. The latest editors prefer yLXog, in 
 which case there is a transition, not uncommon, from the 
 singular to the plural. 
 
 358. xelvTjg refers to y.6or t v, the remote antecedent, xav- 
 Trjg would have pointed at Jr lt ur t Tgog. 
 
 360. y.uiijk&ov uv — to%ov uv, descendissem, cohibuissent, 
 not descender em, cohiberent, as they have been translated. 
 The thing is conceived of as already past. See 1*25. 
 
 361. oi'ts 6 y.vcjv — ovts Xuqcjp i'a/ov. In Greek, two 
 nouns singular, in clauses commencing with disjunctive 
 conjunctions, may have a plural verb, where the one does 
 not exclude the other. Mt. § 304, 3. In fact, in the case 
 of ovji, t£ binds the two nominatives together, and i'o%ov uv 
 is asserted of both. 
 
 363. ovv here denotes simply congruity with what pre- 
 cedes. Comp. 73. r/.sios is here used, and not s'y.sl, 
 
 because the motion of going to the world below is thought 
 of. In v. 864, 7ir<, properly an adverb of motion, taken with 
 otw, " motum sirnul succedentemque ei quietem indicat," 
 according to Hermann on Here. Fur. 1236. 
 
 365. julaiv uvrulc, governs aol, and smoxrupio lovodt ■& sir at 
 is for the more common emoxrjya rolods dslvai. Comp. 
 
 Soph. CEd. R. 252. -/.sd^oig, cedar coffin; which wood 
 
 was used for its supposed antiseptic powers. It renders the 
 dead incorruptible, according to the Schol. on Nicander's 
 
 Theriaca 53, cited by Monk. nhvoa. The neuter and 
 
 feminine forms, nlsvgov, n/.svgd, are both in use. ^Elmsley 
 thought only the neuter to be employed by the tragic poets ; 
 but Hermann on Ajax (1389 of his ed.) has shown the 
 contrary. 
 
 367, 368. These lines are parodied by Aristoph. Acharn. 
 893,894, where Dicaeopolis thus addresses the eel from lake 
 Copais, which a Boeotian brought him during his peace with 
 the enemy : 
 
84 ALCESTIS. 
 
 aXX eGcpeo uvir t v ' firjde yag dctvwv noze 
 gov XMQig ei'i]v fPT£TEVTXavb)(U£n]g. 
 
 " But bring it in. Not even when dead may I 
 E'er be deprived of thee, — dressed up in beet-sauce." 
 
 371 - 373. For zdde which refers to ya^ielv, comp. v. 36. 
 /(x[auv, fut. infin. for ya{ieoeiv. But the present infini- 
 
 tive is here admissible. ^r\ ya^ielv akXtjv yvvouxct ecp' 
 
 vfuv, that he will not marry another wife while you are alive. 
 Comp. Alciphron. i. 11, cpevyeiv em Teavoig %cd yvvai&v, to go 
 into exile with children and wives living ; id. 3, enl naidloig 
 'CojvTsg, living with children alive ; where see Bergler's note. 
 xelevTuv em nuialr, to die and leave children, is a common 
 phrase. Here inl denotes condition or circumstance, some- 
 thing like with ; and ovglv is perhaps understood. But 
 Monk makes icp v[ilv mean over you in the present instance. 
 
 376. cpllov ye dwQov. " Hujusmodi additamenta fere ye 
 sibi sumunt, idque potius post primam vocem quam post 
 secundam." Elmsley on Medea 1362. 
 
 378. The first ye = yes, or indeed; the second empha- 
 sizes gov. ye is often thus repeated in the same sentence. 
 But Monk and Elmsley prefer nolli] p uvayxrj. See Her- 
 mann on Trachin. 294. 
 
 383. oi 7iQo&v>JGxovTeg. A single female speaking of her- 
 self, or addressed in the plural, uses the masculine, and a 
 chorus of women speaking of itself does the like. Mt . 
 
 § 436, 4. For the phrase in this line, which is the 
 
 same as «pu rjfxag nQO&vi]Gxeiv gov, see Mt. § 297, and v. 
 1147. 
 
 386. anoil6(xi]v. The aorist applied to future time ex- 
 presses the certainty of the event. To the mind of the 
 speaker it is so real, that it is conceived of as having actually 
 occurred, dnoilo^iriv is often so used. We employ the 
 present for this purpose in English; e. g. " If you do that, 
 you are ruined ; " — " You are a dead man, if you stir." 
 
NOTES. 85 
 
 387. ovStv uv Uyoig ifis, call me nothing. This is said in 
 
 allusion to yivai of 386. Xeyoig uv is a mild imperative. 
 
 Mt. §515; Soph. Gr. §217. 4. 
 
 391. Wiisternann thinks, that the poet, by the elided 
 word xojIq , represents the expiring state of Alcestis, who 
 could only half utter her last farewell. This is doubtful. 
 
 393. f.iula, like our " mammy," is addressed both to a 
 mother and a nurse. It is, however, a dignified word. The 
 earth is called yula fiala by yEsch. Choeph. 45. 
 
 396. auov = f>or. Soph. Gr. § 67. N. 1. 
 
 400. vnaxovoov, ccy.ovaov. Elmsley on Medea, 1219, 
 " notandum est verbum simplex composito ejusdem signifi- 
 cationis subjectum. Cujusmodi repetitiones apud tragicos 
 satis frequentes sunt. Eurip. Hec. 168, aTrojUoon' (xilioax . 
 Orest. 181, dioix6 t us&' oixo^e&a. Medea, 1. c. y.uTfldsTs 
 
 SlOSTS. 
 
 403. 7iiTrm>. It is much disputed whether tiltpe'w, with a 
 second aorist I'nirrov, existed, or nliroj, imperf. Xnnrov. 
 The latter is held by Elmsley on Heraclid. 77, Medea 55, 
 and by Dindorf and others. Comp. Matthiae on Medea 1. c. 
 But Hermann on Elmsley's Medea 1. c. and elsewhere; and 
 Buttmann (Largest Gram, voce nnv.) contend for tt/tje'co; 
 although the last concedes that nhva also was in use. There 
 are more than eighty places where this word and its com- 
 pounds occur in Pindar and the tragic poets, to whom it is 
 almost confined ; and some of them clearly prove that ennvov, 
 niiriav have an aorist sense. Thus nqoomxrovau is an aorist 
 participle, v. 183. Alcestis did not kiss the bed, while fall- 
 ing, but after she fell. The same is true in 164, for which 
 comp. Orest. 1332, ly.sTijg yuQ c £).ivrjg yovaai Trgoonsawi' /5o«, 
 not TTQoanljiTbiv. In the present line also, I would write m- 
 rvcov ; but, in 1059, nnvuv, denoting a continued state, is a 
 
 present. vsoaaog. This word is sometimes applied to 
 
 children by the tragic poets. Comp. Androm. 441 ; Iph. in 
 
86 ALCESTIS. 
 
 Aul. 2648. The middle xaXov/uai means / call to me, 
 
 call to come to me. 
 
 407. fiuTQog depends on Idnopai, which takes a genitive, 
 both in the sense of / am forsaken by, deprived of, and also 
 
 when it means I fall short of , fall behind. /jorooToXog, 
 
 = f.i6vog. Comp. the note on 428, and Phoeniss. 742. Its 
 proper sense is, journeying alone, like mo&avoq, Soph. CEd. 
 R. 846. 
 
 412. vvpysva in the active is used of the bride, the bride's 
 father, and the bridegroom. The last of these senses is not 
 noticed by Passow. It is found in Medea 625, Ion 819. 
 
 413. xi'kog yijgojg. Not the extreme, but the full time, or, 
 as Monk says, the period of old age. So xslog /j'/jj;?, xslog 
 -fravdrov. 
 
 421. noooimaxo. The tragic poets are fond of using this 
 word metaphorically to denote sudden or unexpected ap- 
 proach. Comp. Prometh. 115, 555, and 644, in which last 
 passage it is spoken of the entrance of thoughts into the 
 mind. 
 
 423. uvTrj/rjOaxs. Not per vices canite, but sing in re- 
 sponse to me. Thus uvxlyalpoi o)dul, Iph. in Tauris 179, 
 are songs sung in response to Iphigenia. Comp. Supplices 
 800. 
 
 424. The hymn addressed to the implacable god below 
 was the wail for the dead. So the ixaxol vi<xioi yooi, Eurip. 
 Electra 141, are called the pilog 'j$da; and Adrastus calls 
 his wail for the chieftains, Supplices 773, cf Aidov noknug. 
 naiuv, properly, a cry for aid sent to Apollo, a hymn of 
 victory in his honor, is often used in a more general sense 
 to denote any hymn. 
 
 426. Monk reads nir&ovg with one MS. ; and xoivova&ai 
 ordinarily governs a genitive. But it takes an accusative in 
 Ion 609, cited by Matthiae, &s psiixtiv, fitxadidovai, sometimes 
 do; and this, being the more unusual construction, is not 
 likely to have arisen from the other. 
 

 NOTES. 87 
 
 427. si'oi'jy.Ei, razor-edged, keen, actively ; but cut by a 
 razor, cut smooth, passively, as here. 
 
 428. (.lova^inv^ = fxovog, from afiTivf-, the band around a 
 horse's brows. " Compound adjectives," says Mt. § 446, Obs. 
 3, H are often employed to make the language more sonorous, 
 one part of the compound being alone regarded," i. e. in 
 the lyric and tragic writers. But such compounds are often 
 far from being unmeaning, and present to the mind, like 
 the noble epithets of Homer, a vivid picture in a single 
 word. 
 
 429. Barnes on this line quotes Herodot. ix. 24, where 
 Mardonius and his army are said to have sheared their 
 horses and beasts of burden, on occasion of the death of 
 Masistius. So also, when Pelopidas died, (Plutarch, in vit. 
 § 33,) the Thessalians and their allies are said xslgai mnovg, 
 xsigao&al ds y.ul avrovg. And when Hephaestion died, (Plu- 
 tarch, in vit. Alex. § 62,) Alexander ordered that all the 
 horses and mules should be sheared, and, — what is quite 
 apposite to this place, — avkovg v.axinuvoz xal [iovuixtjv iv tw 
 
 OTQCIOTltdo) TloXllV %QOVOV- 
 
 434. alia Tifiav. Comp. the construction in v. 1060. 
 Tifxijg is the easier and less probable reading. 
 
 436. uv t epic for lv, is very rare in the tragic poets. 
 Comp. Antig. 1241. 
 
 444. noQzvia here takes two accusatives. Comp. Soph. 
 Trach. 5o9, og tov (ju&vqijovv noia^iov Evtjvov (jqotovc (Jiu&oii 
 J 7ro'^£i'£ xegaiv. The accusative of the place often has <W 
 
 after this verb. The close of this sentence applies only 
 
 to Charon, and not to Pluto, so that the clause larco — &iog 
 seems to be idle. What is said of Charon readily suggests 
 that which the poet, studious of brevity, intended to have 
 understood of Hades. 
 
 446. The lyre or " shell " is called ogsia, from the tortoise 
 being found upon the mountains. Monk cites from Horn. 
 H. in Merc. 42, ogtoxojoio xtlwriq* in the next line 
 
88 ALCESTIS. 
 
 alvQoi vfivoL is carmina epica. (Hermann.) The poems in 
 epic verse were recited only by a rhapsodist holding a 
 branch in his hand. 
 
 448-452. The MSS. have xvxXog, and wga or mga. 
 Scaliger read xvxXdg wga, and this conjecture, approved by 
 Hermann, Dindorf, and others, gives an easy construction, 
 aeXdvag being absolute. Monk objects to this, that the word 
 xvxXdg is unknown to the early poets, and with him agrees 
 Matthise. xvxXog governs oeXdrag according to the reading 
 of the MSS., and toga, which is then necessary, takes pyvog. 
 The sense is, when the circle of the moon remaining all 
 night in the sky returns at the season of the Corneian month. 
 The Carneia was a festival in honor of Apollo, begun on 
 the seventh day of the eleventh Spartan month, but a short 
 time after the Olympian games, and held for nine days. 
 A part of the solemnity consisted in erecting nine tents, in 
 each of which nine men dwelt, who represented most of the 
 ohm or phratrice of Sparta. The musical and other contests 
 at this festival were famous in Greece. See Miiller on 
 Orchomenus, (p. 327, in the German.) and Clinton's Fasti 
 on the years 480, 418, B. C. 
 
 455. See 536. 
 
 457. TEgufivav. Hesych. explains TiQtfxvu by olxr^iaxa. 
 TSQafiva or T&Qi^va occurs eight times in Eurip., and the word 
 is scarcely to be met with in any other of the early poets. 
 
 459. noTa/xla, as rowing over Cocytus, veqt£qm, as pertain- 
 ing to the infernal woi*ld. These two epithets refer arti- 
 ficially to the two preceding lines. 
 
 460. cplla is a superlative in sense, as Monk remarks. 
 The genitive following it shows that the person spoken of is 
 eminent in her class. It is joined with a superlative in 
 
 Hippolyt. 848, w (plXa yvvaixwv nqlora rs. [lova here 
 
 denotes the only one of its hind, excellent, and the genitive 
 must be thought of with it. 
 
NOTES. S9 
 
 461. ocviug. The reflexive pronoun of the third is often 
 used for those of the Jirst and second persons. Soph. Gr. 
 § 145. N. 2. 
 
 462. d/uuipai. See v. 46. 
 
 464. Xi/og = yvvaixa. Comp. Antig. 568. 
 
 472. ol'/ti, art gune, the opposite of tjxBig, hast come. 
 
 473. airdvudog. ourdvafr, I join two together, is espe- 
 cially used of marrying, and ovvdvaapog, according to Pollux 
 iii. 44, and Hesych., answers to ydpog and ov^vyla. owdvdg, 
 a word hardly to be met with elsewhere, ought to be synony- 
 mous with ov^vyog. It is best taken, not as an epithet of 
 uioxov, but as a noun, like ai^vyog in 314, 342. The mean- 
 ing is, may it be mine to have such a partner for my beloved 
 wife. to yuo ^z tovxo yuQ. 
 
 476. Hercules enters, on his way to Thrace, expecting to 
 be entertained by his ancient host Admetus. Finding him 
 in affliction, he inquires the cause, and is deceived as to the 
 person mourned for, and to be buried. Admetus, perceiving 
 his mistake, promotes it still more, from an unwillingness to 
 drive a guest from his doors. Hercules enters the house 
 therefore, and is shown into a retired apartment, where he 
 is feasting, while the funeral arrangements are going on. 
 476 — 567. 
 
 The chorus praises the hospitality of the king in an ele- 
 gant song, 568 - 605. 
 
 The fault of this scene is, that Hercules is singularly 
 stupid in not understanding that Alcestis is dead, and seems 
 to let himself be deceived for the poet's purposes. 
 
 xw/zijifti, members of the itufiat, or, as they were called 
 in Attica, dr t poi : villagers dwelling in scattered hamlets, 
 whose king lived in the nolig. 
 
 482. xctl ttoI. Monk reads not xul, according to Porson's 
 rule, Phoeniss. 1372, that nul after interrogates is a simple 
 copula, and, but before them makes an objection like but. 
 This rule is verified by 1049, 1052, 1056. See v. 183, 
 
 9 
 
90 ALCESTIS. 
 
 note. ov^vyrjvai nXavco, to be yoked ivith, bound to, 
 
 obliged to go upon an adventure. So this verb is joined 
 with ovfMpogci, Hippolyt. 1389 ; and with dalpcov, Androm. 
 98. 
 
 483. See 67. 
 
 487. The old edd. have p,' rjv novovg, which Monk altered 
 into rovg novovg. Gaisford and Matthiae read Tol.g novoig 
 after several MSS. antmiiv novovg means to renounce la- 
 bors ; aneinuv novoig, to give up in undergoing them. 
 
 489. See the note on 256. 
 
 490. See 72. 
 
 493. d pr t ys, ?iisi forte ; Pflugk : literally, it is easy, 
 unless at least; where ys restricts what had been said to 
 one particular case. 
 
 498. OQ) t Y.Lag nefoijg ava$, rex populi peltis armati ; Her- 
 mann. ne?.Trj stands for nslraoiijg, as aonlg for uontdocpogoi, 
 onla for onXlrai. uru$ has been taken by Monk and Wake- 
 field in the sense of d£onoTr t g. The former compares xcamjg 
 &va£, iEsch. Pers. 370 (378), to which he gives the sense 
 of remex ; but the phrase means captain of oarsmen, captain 
 of a ship. The latter cites from Ovid, Met. xiii. 2, " clypei 
 dominus septemplicis Ajax." I formerly adopted this inter- 
 pretation, and uvas may certainly be thus taken. We have, 
 e. g. xcantjg avaxtag, Cyclops 80, plainly oarsmen, p^Xwv ava§, 
 Horn. Odys. 440. And the expression ^dxQvoov neXirjv oc- 
 curs in its literal sense in Rhesus 370. Moreover, if nehrjg 
 is metonymically used, there seems to be something strange 
 in the epithet ^axgvoov applicable not to the army but to the 
 weapon. But nevertheless the scope of the passage seems 
 to require the sense first given. Diomedes had an army 
 ready to oppose Hercules. The pelta was originally a 
 Thracian weapon, and the epithet is added, on account of 
 the gold mines of southern Thrace, at Scapte Hyle, in 
 which at our poet's time the historian Thucydides was an 
 owner, and at Crenidse, near the site of Philippi. 
 

 NOTES. 91 
 
 499. tovuov dalfiovog norov, a task such as my genius or 
 fortune allots ?ne, such as it has been my lot to meet with. 
 
 Comp. Soph. Ajax 534, noinov ye tuv r,v daluovog tovuov Tods. 
 
 500. ngog aJnog cg-zcroc-, i. e. brings me info arduous un- 
 dertakings, ulnog is properly a steep place. 
 
 502, 503. Other authors make Lycaon a son of Neleus, 
 whom Hercules slew in his attack upon Pydos. Cycnus 
 challenged Hercules as he was going to Trachis in Thessaly. 
 They fought in Apollo's sacred plot, not far from the scene 
 of this play, near Pagasse, and the combat forms the subject 
 of Hesiod's " Shield of Hercules." 
 
 507. y.al urjV. These particles occur repeatedly when a 
 new character comes upon the tragic stage. Comp. 611, 
 1006, and see Elmsley on Heraclidae 119. They may be 
 rendered and sure, or but indeed, with a tone of surprise. 
 Sometimes ode pyv without xai is used on such occasions. 
 
 o'(5' ui'Tog jiooevETui. Here (Admetus) himself is 
 
 coming. 
 
 511. d-iXoif* av, sc. xalouv. evvovv d' : here di, which 
 
 two MSS. have, expresses the opposition between the 
 clauses : &ikoifi i uv is as much as to say, that it was not 
 well with him ; but he knew that Hercules wished him well. 
 
 512. ii xq^i.iu ; wherefore? a phrase of which Eurip. is 
 fond. Comp. Heraclidas 634 (Elms.), %l -/or^iu xeloai ,- cur 
 
 jaces ? noineiQ, why art thou conspicuous, why dost thou 
 
 show thyself or appear ? The sequence of meanings in 
 noeneiv seems to be, 1. to be prominejit or conspicuous, to 
 appear or seem. Comp. 1050. 2. to be seemly or suitable, 
 to become, the common signification of noinei. 3. to be 
 suitable to, to be like. Comp. 11*21. Buttmann, (Lexilo- 
 gus, No. 8,) departing from the received explanation of 
 noe'jieis here, makes it active in the sense of or^aaireig, and 
 governs xi xor lt uu by it. But this verb does not, I believe, 
 elsewhere take an accusative in the tragic poets, except 
 
92 ALCESTIS. 
 
 when it is used impersonally ; and the answer, if the text 
 of the next line is right, shows that a reason was asked. 
 
 520. sinag, sc. xbv (iv&ov, or tovio. The sense is, did 
 
 you say this, she being dead and yet alive ? Another 
 
 reading, tieqI for (nl, adopted by Monk and MalthiiE, seems 
 to have proceeded from some copyist who sought to intro- 
 duce an easier construction. 
 
 523. By the reverse of the ordinary attraction in Greek, 
 the noun is sometimes put in its relative's case. Soph. Gr. 
 §151. 2. See Mt. §474, who quotes Iliad xviii. 192, 
 ukXov <5' ov Ttv oida, tsv av xXvtu Tsv^sa dvia. 
 
 525. See v. 2. 
 
 526. Tods, SC. to xaiSavuv, tov -Saratov aVT-rjg. Wake- 
 field conjectured tuts, which Elmsley likes, but thinks ig 
 tots an expression used only by later writers. 
 
 527. b fiskXtav, sc. Oavstv. 
 
 528. to ^ vofil^etai, sc. slvai : are thought to be apart, 
 
 different. to t thai y.al to [iij. Comp. Soph. Electr. 
 
 885, note, ts — xal sometimes unite entire opposites, where 
 we should use only and, not both — and. 
 
 533. Comp. 333. 
 
 536. &'&•' evoofiEv, I wish I had found. Comp. 1102. si 
 yuQ TooavTTjv dvvtxfiiv tl^ov, I icish I had (i. e. now) so much 
 power, 1072; ti'd-' in ipol fisv tl'r), 1 wish it could depend 
 on me, 455. See also 92, 719. These examples are ad- 
 duced, to show that sl&s, el yaq, with an aorist, expresses a 
 wish as to something actual but past; with an imperfect, 
 usually as to something actual and present ; and, with an 
 optative, as to something possible and future. 
 
 541. Ts&vaoiv 61 -Savovtsg, they who died are dead. Let 
 the student notice the difference of the tenses : the aorist 
 marks the event or fact ; the perfect the continued state. 
 
 542. Here a short syllable in one word is lengthened 
 before a mute and liquid in another, which ordinarily make 
 no position. Comp. 526, 530. Porson and other English 
 
NOTES. 93 
 
 scholars deny that this is admissible, and alter the verse : 
 Elmsley, on Medea 1224, note u, inserts xi before nagu. 
 
 544. {ivgiog often means very many, very great, in the 
 poets, and was first used as a definite numeral by postho- 
 meric writers. 
 
 546. twj' dmpthap H-amovg Sevwrcxg. In the more splendid 
 Greek houses, there were structures apart from the body of 
 the house for the accommodation of guests. Vitruvius says, 
 (vi. 7,) " On the right and left (of the andronitis or men's 
 apartments) there were smaller houses, having their own 
 doors, eating-halls, and convenient chambers." — " between 
 the peristyles (of the andronitis) and these two guest-houses 
 are passages called mesaula on account of their lying be- 
 tween two courts." 
 
 548, 549. iv ds xXrjoaTE = iyxkyaaxt 5L — &vgag j.teoavkovg. 
 By these words the poet is usually supposed to mean, the 
 door between the nun's and the women's apartments. Such a 
 door there no doubt was, and it is often spoken of. See 
 Valesius on Harpocrat. voce avlsiog, Matthias on Medea 135, 
 Schneider's Epimetrum to Xen. Mem. iii. 8, 9. But, if the 
 guest was in remote quarters, from which there can hardly 
 have been any communication with the female apartments, 
 this door cannot have been intended. We are rather to 
 suppose, that the poet had in view a door in the mesaula, or 
 passage between the andronitis and the fsrav spoken of by 
 Vitruvius, as above, the closing of which would prevent the 
 o-uest from hearing the lamentations of Admetus and his 
 men. 
 
 559. &rov is related to icvde, as a predicate to a subject. 
 The sense is, I have him, or gain him for my host. 
 
 560. Hiipiav. An epithet copied after Homer's noXvdvipiov, 
 which denotes either the fabled state of the Argive plains 
 before Danaus discovered springs, or rather the exposure of 
 the upper part of the plain to drought. Pausanias (ii. 15,) 
 says, that Neptune caused all the water of the country to 
 
 9* 
 
94 ALCESTIS. 
 
 disappear, after it had been adjudged to Juno ; on which 
 account neither the Inachus nor any other of its rivers have 
 any supply but from the rain ; and in summer all its streams 
 are dry except those in Lerne. " The upper part of the Ar- 
 give plain," says Colonel Leake, (" Travels in the Morea," 
 ii. 367,) " is unproductive from a deficiency of moisture ; 
 and a great part of the lower from a want of drainage." 
 
 561. nwg, Lat. cur. 
 
 568-577. sXsvdeoog, liberal. avdgog is perhaps em- 
 phatically used of a man, as contrasted with a god. 
 
 os tol. toi is often put with emphasis after the personal 
 
 pronoun. Comp. Soph. Electr. 624, 1445. uolaiv iv 
 
 dopoig. By a negligence, pardonable as causing no obscu- 
 rity, the person is changed, and Admetus is addressed in- 
 stead of the house. noifivltag v^isralovg. " Carmina 
 
 pastoralia ad quorum cantum greges pascuntur, vel dispersi 
 convocantur." Wustemann. Another explanation is given 
 by ^Elian, de nat. animal. 12. 44. avXijfia onto eig towza 
 epfidXXsi, innixovg ts yapovg itXu, (I have shortened the 
 passage.) 
 
 578 - 587. ovv. sc. together with the flocks. ftaXiod = 
 
 xaiaoTiy.Tol, spotted. Comp. "lynces vari.se," cited by Monk 
 
 from Virg. Georg. iii. 264. dacponog. An epic epithet 
 
 of lions, jackals, dragons, and indicative of color ; as Iliad 
 ii. 308, dQumcav em vcoza dacpoirog shows. Its primitive cpoivog 
 is similarly used ; but both words also denote bloody, cruel. 
 
 Comp. Prometh. 1022. ftalvovou moav, passing beyond, 
 
 going out of. 
 
 588 -596. roiyao, i. e. on account of the favor of Apollo. 
 
 uQoxoig. The order is, jl&tiai bpov agotoig — xr ( v 
 
 al&iga MoXooowv. ai&i'iQ, here clime, is sometimes used 
 
 in the feminine by the poets. u^iqil adlov xvtcpaLav 
 
 innooiaoiv, towards the dark stopping-place of the sun's 
 horses, i. e. the west. This phrase occurs in frag. Eurip. 
 Phaethon, (No. 1. Matth.) ix/upl, here, like about, properly 
 
NOTES. 95 
 
 means in the region or quarter of. Euripides uses a 
 
 poet's license in stretching the realm of Admetus across 
 Thessaly. Homer confines the domains of his son Eumelus 
 to Pherae, Iolcos, and the land on lake Bcebeis ; and this 
 prince led" to Troy the smallest force of any of the eleven 
 
 Thessalian chieftains except Philoctetes. novnov ts x. 
 
 t. A., and toicards the harbourless coast of the yEgean sea, he 
 is lord of Pclion. Here ts is irregularly used instead of 8i 
 after psr. Comp. Soph. Antig. 1096, where ts takes the 
 place of (aw before 8i. By a change of style, the clauses 
 which at first were spoken of as opposed, are afterwards 
 considered as conjoined; or the contrary. The adjective 
 Alyalav' is put for Aiyouov, according to Musgrave's emen- 
 dation approved by Gaisford, Hermann, and others ; and so 
 
 duQooq in the antistrophe for -d-Qixaog. ccklfisrov. The 
 
 Magnesian or eastern coast of Thessaly under Pelion and 
 Ossa was exposed to easterly winds, and had no good ports. 
 It was here that a sudden gale proved destructive to such 
 vessels of the fleet of Xerxes as had not been drawn ashore. 
 See Herodot. vii. 190. 
 
 600-605. iy.cptQSTcti, is carried or led on, with the idea, 
 perhaps, of going out of the bounds of propriety. Comp. 
 
 nQoq ooyjjV ixq>sQH, Soph. Electr. 628. aldw, reverence or 
 
 respect due to strangers. The sense is, his generosity of 
 
 nature is urged on to pay respect to a guest. ndvju 
 
 ooqiag = naou aoq.la. The aim of this sentence is, to ex- 
 cuse Admetus for exercising hospitality at such a time. 
 
 xsdru ttqu^siv = y.alojq tiqu^eiv. For the meaning of 
 
 deootftij here, comp. v. 114S. 
 
 606. Admetus, who had gone within, returns with the 
 corpse. His father Pheres here appears, intending to assist 
 in burying the dead : Admetus rejects his aid and consola- 
 tion, as coming from one who had placed him under the 
 necessity of losing his wife; since she would have been 
 spared to him, if Pheres had consented to give up his few 
 
96 ALCESTIS. 
 
 remaining years of life. An angry discussion ensues, which 
 is terminated by the departure of Pheres. 006-740. 
 
 This scene is better than many rhetorical discussions in 
 Eurip., but is frigid, because the selfishness of Admetus is 
 continually recalled to mind. Few will agree with Wake- 
 field, who regards it as one of the gems of Greek literature. 
 Monk supposes the poet to have introduced it, in order that 
 the funeral pomp, on which the choragi had no doubt 
 lavished much expense, might stay a while on the stage 
 before the eyes of the people. But the taste of Eurip. was 
 none of the purest, and he loved such dialogues as this for 
 their own sake. 
 
 ardgoov — nagovola, for avdgtg — si^m'fTg nagovisg. Comp. 
 arjV Ttagovaluv 630 = as nugoviu, obv fiiov 362 = as ^wvzot. 
 
 608. uydrjv, aloft, i. e. borne upon their shoulders. 
 
 Comp. Antig. 430. nvga, the grave, not the pyre. 
 
 Comp. 740, Electr. 92, and Soph. Electr. 901. 
 
 610. So Soph, says, Trachin. 874, (j&(3>]y.e zltjdveiga ttjv 
 
 navvoTuirjv 656v anuaoJv. The chorus does what is here 
 
 requested, at v. 741. 
 
 613. y.6o[.iov includes both dress and personal ornaments, 
 
 = ia&i'/ia y.oofiov ze of V. 161. Comp. 631. ayul^iaza 
 
 vegzigwr, delights of the dead. 
 
 620. ?j rig ys, qnippe quce. The relatives may often be 
 resolved into demonstratives or personal pronouns and a 
 causal particle, ys throws an emphasis upon 7] zig. 
 
 627. This became a proverb according to Aristides, cited 
 by Musgrave : to zrjg 7iagoi(.dag s'gug, — 7) zoiavDjv /p/) ya^uv 
 7\ firi yapuv. 
 
 633. wklv/nrjv, I was just perishing. 
 
 635. anot^m^sL. There is another reading, aTroifuoj^ng, 
 approved by Monk and Elmsley. Matthiae observes, that 
 the future is generally used in such increpatory sentences as 
 this. The proper future of unoi^w^w is unoi^o'^o^ai. 
 
NOTES. 97 
 
 U ihyxov i&X&uv. Comp. tig t &m>; Soph. Phi- 
 ftolmr, OEd. Col. 1297. 
 
 640. i 
 loct. 98 
 
 641. The usual idiom would omit ^t, and turn nalda 
 a nominative. Comp. 668 for a similar construction. See 
 Soph. Gr. § 158. N. 1. 
 
 642. ?] jiioa =± ?} rot «£«. diungtmig governs a 
 
 genitive from its superlative force. 
 
 645. udocnt, i. e. you and my mother. The plural in- 
 cludes the dual, and often takes its place. 
 647. t' av is Monk's conjecture for xi y\ 
 
 649. tov — yMT&arojr is added as an explanation of rortf 
 uyojva. 
 
 650. Here Xoinog qualifies the idea expressed by the two 
 words fiiwotiiog xqovog. It is rare that one adjective is thus 
 the epithet of another in Greek. Comp. Medea 598, ^ ftoi 
 ytvono kvnobg tvdaifAcov (lioq, may I not have an unhappy life 
 of prosperity. 
 
 651. The forms !'£«*>, IZfty, seem both to have been in 
 good use ; the latter being derived subsequently to the 
 former from s'^g, e£r}, and £i} imperative, as if from t,r^i. In 
 295, where this line first occurs, most of the MSS. read t&v, 
 which the Etymol. Mag. 413, 9, quotes in order to con- 
 demn it; and in the present line several MSS. have this 
 reading, although others have e'£m>. Comp. Buttmann on 
 £«w (Largest Gram. 2, 144). 
 
 652. Comp. ^Esch. Persae 295, y.tl oitvtig v.axolg b\uo)g. 
 OTt'ru inl Tin, and vnig jirog also occur, but ozena it or xivu 
 is more common. Still another construction is, oisria as lyg 
 ti^c, yEsch. Prom. 397, for which see Elmsley on Medea 
 1202. 
 
 655. diudo/og, a successor, lit. the receiver of any thing 
 handed along. Hence the propriety of its taking a genitive 
 of that which is transmitted. Comp. Prometh. 464. 
 
 65S. The reading of the MSS. preferred here by Monk, 
 and other late editors, auftoi£mw — d-artiv ngovdwy.a a', 
 
93 ALCESTIS. 
 
 seems to injure the sense. It would be unnatural that 
 Admetus should think of his father's charging him with 
 leaving him (the father) to die, when no such situation is 
 alluded to. The participle diifiaQoiv in that reading is 
 almost unmeaning, but aTi{j.ri'£ovToc in the text expresses the 
 reason why the father might have deserted his son. — The 
 form of speech is that very common one, in which the sub- 
 ject or object of the second clause is made the subject of 
 the first. 
 
 661. TjkXa&trjv. See the note on v. 272. 
 
 662. ova av cp&droig yvxtvuv, you cannot be too soon in 
 begetting. See Elmsley on Heraclidae 721, who remarks, 
 that the present participle must be used with (p&drw in this 
 sense. Comp. Mt. § 553. 
 
 666. Tovnl ae. " Monet Porsonus ad Orest. 1338, hane 
 phrasin interpretationem duplicem accipere, quod in tud 
 potestate est, et quod ad te attinet." Monk. It has the 
 latter sense here. Comp. Antig. 889. 
 
 671. I formerly followed Monk here in reading ovd' ti$ 
 for ovdelg on account of Porson's canon respecting the fifth 
 foot of Iambic trimeters. (See his Supplem. in Praef. He- 
 cub. 35.) But Hermann has shown (Elementa doctr. metr. 
 2. 14. 9) that where the pause is in the middle of the 
 fourth foot, as it is here, such a close as ovdslg (3ov- \ Uim 
 , _ w __ is unobjectionable. 
 
 675. tlv avxeig, idiom do you presume, or think. 
 
 Two questions are here condensed into one, jiva avxiig 
 ilotvvEiv ,• and nozson yJvdov ij (pgvyct av%uq t'Xuvpsiv. Comp. 
 
 Soph. Electr. 766. iXavvtiv aayolc, and eXavrsiv alone, 
 
 denote to assail icith reproaches, to revile, This line is 
 
 parodied by Aristoph. Birds 1244. 
 
 678. yvtjGiag, legitimately, lawfully. 
 
 679. In this sentence, if y.al is made to connect vftgi'Csig 
 and ujtsi, tlie two participles must denote the same action in 
 different tenses, and be joined with the latter verb. I should 
 
NOTES. 99 
 
 expect too vfigl&ig — aX).' ovx ana, rather than y.al ovx ami. 
 For this reason in the last edition I took y.al rsavi.ag to be 
 equivalent to xal rtariag wV, though a youth, and separated 
 01 — anu by a colon from what precedes. But y.al rsaviag 
 cannot be so understood : at least I have found no example 
 in the tragic poets, where the participle is omitted when y.al 
 is so used. The colon is still retained, though with hesita- 
 tion. y.al is even. The sense is, you are very insolent in 
 going so far as to throw out even haughty speeches against 
 me. The asyndeton in the next clause expresses the anger 
 
 of Pheres. ov fiaXcov ovnag ami, thou shalt not, having 
 
 made thy shot, simply (i. e. without more ado, impune t ) 
 depart. For oviwg in this sense, Elmsley on Heraclidae 
 375, may be consulted. 
 
 GS6. For the accusative following Tv/gavco, obtain, see 
 Antig. 778, note. The genitive is like that following 6s- 
 %0[iai. 
 
 690. ovd' f/w, sc. S-avovfiai. 
 
 691. Aristoph. quotes this verse in the Thesmoph. 194, 
 and, in the Clouds 1415, parodies it thus, 
 
 v.). a ova i Ttaidic, naiifja <5' ov y.Xauv doxslg ; 
 
 694. diE^iuxov to fii] xhavsiv, contended against death, used 
 your efforts not to die. 
 
 696. " eha is often used in questions expressing dis- 
 pleasure, or mockery." Mt. § 603. Comp. v. 831. 
 
 698. rov aaXov rtaviov, the pretty youth ! The article is 
 often used in expressions of contempt, or of admiration, 
 having in them a demonstrative force. 
 
 699. The sense is, you hit on a wise plan so as never to 
 die, if you ivill but persuade your wife for the time being to 
 die instead of you. uu, like our ever, has two senses, 
 cdways, and at any time. In the latter, it is joined with 
 the article, and usually follows it immediately. Comp. tov 
 yqaxovvx ad, him who at any time rules, the ruler for the 
 
100 ALCESTIS. 
 
 time being, Prometh. 937. ol del imopieg sSiqp dgofju inl 
 iovq ail (iowviag, Xen. Anab. iv. 7, 23. 
 
 702. xaxog. Two senses of this word are played upon 
 here, and in 704, as Porson on Phceniss. 1245, and Monk 
 remark. 
 
 706. nXtiw is an absolute comparative, a certain standard 
 being implied ; == nliioi jov di'opiog, too many. 
 
 708. A?/, a>g f'fiov U^avTog. According to Matthias xaxcog 
 is to be supplied, as in Antig. 1054. This L. Dindorf 
 denies, and pronounces the sense to be, " die uti ego dixi : 
 Non impedio enim." Prlugk makes the meaning to be die 
 me jubente et permittente. 
 
 713. The MSS. have (tsigw a\ which Schaefer, Matthias, 
 and Monk changed into fxsi^ova, because v. 714 implies that 
 an imprecation has been uttered. And such was the read- 
 ing which I formerly adopted. But Hermann, with his 
 wonted discrimination, says, [optatio quidem continetur 
 verbis Admeti :] " sed non tamen delendum erat up. Nam 
 eo deleto, hasc serio optantis oratio esset : servato autem, 
 ironica est et plena contemptionis : per me licet vel Jovem 
 vivendo superes. Ita saepissime verteres. Sophocles Electr. 
 1457, %aiQOig av, it oot, x n Q*d xvy%dva T«'(5f." i. e. you can 
 rejoice if you please, or I am very willing that you should 
 rejoice. 
 
 717. urjpua is in the accusative, and in apposition with 
 the preceding sentence. See v. 7, note. 
 
 723. sv di'dfjdaiv = dvdgilov. It is, perhaps, a brief ex- 
 pression for tv lrj/.ia<jiv dvdgwv. 
 
 724. Matthias considers iyyelag as a future, like oxidw, 
 oxtdag ; but to take this verb in the present gives force to 
 the sentence. 
 
 728. Some read r\ <5', ilia autem, instead of r/<5', hcec. 
 
 732. Acastus was the brother of Alcestis, and son of 
 Pelias. See the notes on the Argument. 
 
 733. Ti^uQsia&at, to take satisfaction for, here governs 
 
NOTES. 101 
 
 two accusatives, as the kindred words tloao&ai, usTek&eh; 
 [isTievcu sometimes do. Comp. Mt. § 421. 
 
 735. Monk takes Genocide nocidog oviog together, as in the 
 common phrase auat$ a^sreov naldav, the adjective being 
 put for arev. But this weakens the sense, to say nothing of 
 ovrog, which is a predicate, and cannot therefore suit that 
 construction. The sense is, grow old, as ye deserve, child- 
 less, though ivith a child living. 
 
 737. velo&' has a future sense like ti//*, and like I am 
 
 going. laviop aisyog Tojds, the same house with me, V 
 
 (pointing to himself.) For xamov, comp. Buttm. § 74, 2. 
 
 741. o/srUcc x6k t ur]g, unhappy by reason of thy daring, 
 (i. e. in consenting to die.) The genitive in such phrases, 
 which are common in the poets, express the origin or the 
 reason of the quality denoted by the adjective. Comp. 
 (j,sXia. 7i6rc»V) Medea 96; oyjrhog nuddcov, Androm. 1179; 
 duXotis tov rov tJjs Tf ovfityogag, Soph. GEd. R. 1347. Major 
 translates oxetMcc xel^g unyielding in boldness. But he is, 
 I apprehend, altogether wrong, oyhhog in that sense, has 
 something of censure attached to it, but is here used of one 
 who is praised and pitied. A passage closely resembling 
 this is Medea 1028, w dvoiulairu xrjg ipyg av&adug. 
 
 745. tiUov. See v. 72. xovxcjv, sc. the advantages 
 
 of the good denoted by nliov. 
 
 746. The chorus, as Monk remarks, here leaves the or- 
 chestra and accompanies the funeral procession. Comp. 740. 
 This is in a measure necessary to the probability of the 
 ensuing scene, and propriety would require the chorus to at- 
 tend upon their king on such an occasion. Of the absence 
 of a chorus during the play an example is found in Soph. 
 Ajax 814, where they leave the theatre to search for Ajax : 
 meanwhile the scene changes, he kills himself, and they re- 
 appear. Another example perhaps is afforded by the Helena, 
 where, at v. 515, the chorus seems to be in ignorance of 
 
 10 
 
102 ALCESTIS. 
 
 the arrival of Menelaus, which could not but have been 
 known, had it been present during his speech, 386, seq. 
 
 After the funeral procession had departed, the servant 
 who waited upon Hercules comes out of the house, and, 
 thinking him to be acquainted with the death of Alcestis, 
 censures him in no measured terms for his revelry at such a 
 moment. Hercules follows, and deals out to him some bac- 
 chanalian philosophy that he had imbibed with his wine. 
 On observing his sadness, he again searches into the affair 
 of the funeral, and, rinding that Alcestis, and not a stranger, 
 was mourned for, he reproaches Admetus with having de- 
 ceived him, and himself with his revelry. Upon this he 
 determines to wrest Alcestis from the grasp of Death, or, if 
 that cannot be done, to bring her back from Pluto's realm. 
 
 This scene is faulty because the contrast of sorrow for 
 the loss of friends, with mirthfulness, not to say revelry, must 
 necessarily be revolting; and the effect on the audience 
 must have been painful, notwithstanding the ignorance of 
 Hercules may have excused him in their eyes. So comic 
 and some would say undignified a scene is hardly to be 
 found in any other ancient tragedy ; but the union of the 
 comic and tragic is not in itself objectionable. This scene 
 is not inconsistent with the character of Hercules as con- 
 ceived of by the Greeks, especially after comedy flourished. 
 His voracity and love of wine were noted, and furnished 
 many a joke. On the heathen principle, during the intervals 
 of his labors, his gigantic body got the better of his mind. 
 
 755. eX is nearly the same here with onois, expressing 
 with an optative repeated action in past time, and usually 
 accompanied by an imperfect in the apodosis. 
 
 756. As xslgeooi is only found (out of lyric passages) in 
 Antig. 1297, Monk proposes to read noTygiov <5' iv x*Qv'h 
 norrjg also being used only in Eurip. Cyclops 151. Comp. 
 xixsaivog OHV<po$ yuXaxzog, Eurip. Androm. frag. 33 (Mt.) 
 
NOTES. 103 
 
 757. tv'Cwoov, very pure or strong, tv is intensive as in 
 evdvXog, like our well in well-beloved. 
 
 758. Comp. Odys. ix. 362, KvxXancc ntgl cpgivag r ( Xvdtv 
 oivog. 
 
 760. fiiXr} may be here a nominative, as is shown by a 
 parallel construction, Xen. Anab. i. 5, 9 ; nut ovviduv <5' r]v 
 roj ngooeyoi'Ti top vovv r\ fiuoiXt'ug agy.V nX-qdd fiiv 
 ywgag xal avd-gunwv iayvga ovaa. But on the other hand r t v 
 can = t$r t v. 
 
 762. ovdsv governs x«zw>'. 
 
 763. idstxwfisp jiyyopttg. This verb here, as usually 
 takes a participle instead of an infinitive. Comp. 154. 
 
 768. To stretch out the hand, as a salutation or mark of 
 friendship for the deceased, was customary at funerals. The 
 same usage is alluded to in Supplices 772-775, cited by 
 Monk, where lifting the hand and addressing a deceased 
 friend are brought together. 
 
 773. fitinsiv is often joined with a neuter adjective or a 
 noun, which denotes the quality of the look. Comp. ranv 
 fiXinuv, to have a mustard look, Aristoph. Knights 631 ; 
 
 vmXov /5A£7tg>, / look prettily, Cyclops 553. ofiivov y.al 
 
 neygovTi'/.og, grave and thoughtful, 
 
 780. oldug. For this form, which is rare, see Lobeck on 
 Phrynichus, p. 236. It is also found, Odys. i. 337, where 
 a Schol. in the Harleian MS. (see Buttmann's Scholia on 
 the Odyssey) informs us, that Zenodotus wished to read 
 ti'deig, and Aristarchus did not object to the reading. 
 
 781. no&sv yug. See v. 95. 
 
 785. to Tr,g rvyvg, a circumlocution for rj jiyrj. Soph. Gr. 
 
 § 176. Elmsley on Medea 1087, remarks, that ol, a 
 
 definite adverb, is here used for onoi, an indefinite one, as 
 og and ooitg, tv&a and 07101;, and similar correlatives are 
 sometimes confounded. In 640, ifctfa?, slg IXsyyov e^eX&dov, 
 og si, og is properly used because a definite character is 
 spoken of. But in such sentences as " I know not, or I 
 
104 ALCESTIS. 
 
 wish to know who thou art," oang is ordinarily found, or tig 
 in its place. 
 
 790. iiIuqtov fjdiainiv. Double superlatives sometimes 
 occur in the tragic poets, as in Medea 1323, [ityioxov ex&iaTv 
 yvvr\> 
 
 794. olf-icii (xev. I should think so for my -part (fxiv.) 
 Major. 
 
 795. niu is from niojxm, the proper Attic future of nlvta. 
 movfioch mu is a later form. rvxag appears instead of 
 
 \ nvlag in the early edd., and is mentioned by the Schol. 
 '4 797. The sense is, the stroke of the wine-vesscVs oar fall- 
 ing upon you shall remove you from your present sad and 
 
 morose state of mind. nhvlog, the stroke of the oar, is 
 
 often used figuratively by Eurip. and others ; and especially 
 denotes the stroke or influence of sudden passion or mad- 
 ness on the mind. Comp. nhvlog fiavlag, Iph. in Taur. 307, 
 
 <p6fiov } Here. Fur. 816. ^e&ogfil^eiv, properly, to bring 
 
 to another mooring-place or anchorage. This word is used 
 figuratively in Medea 258, 443. 
 
 799. ovjag ds &vr[xovg, since we are mortal. -dv^Ta 
 
 (PqoveIv, to have mortal feelings ; i. e. to feel that we must 
 soon die, and enjoy as much as possible beforehand ; which 
 is the natural feeling of a mortal, ignorant of his own im- 
 mortality. 1 Cor. xv. 32. 
 «\ 801. tag y e^ol xqvjO&cu v.Qirfi, at least to make use of me 
 as judge, at least in my judgment, tag epol often stands 
 alone in the same sense. Comp. Mt. §§ 3S8, 545. 
 
 803. Comp. 228. 
 
 807. tv £waa', how live ? A word is often repeated with 
 Tt, to ask for an explanation. 
 
 •^ 810. The sense is, ivas it not proper for me to be well 
 treated, at least as far as a stranger's corpse was concerned, 
 i. e. that ought not to prevent it. 
 
 811. There are two opposite readings in this line, olxuog 
 and &vQaiog, the former appearing in Monk's and most other 
 
NOTES. 105 
 
 editions, the latter in those of Matthias and Dindorf. ohuog 
 can hardly be genuine, as it supersedes all further inquiry. 
 &vqouoc, is ironically used according to Matthias ; and the 
 tone with which it was uttered leads Hercules to suspect 
 that something has been concealed from him. 
 
 817. h diovu de'^ao&ai, on an occasion when it was proper 
 to receive (visitors). Some understand yatgoj with oiovii, 
 but slg dsov, of advantage, opportune, v. 1101, shows that it 
 is neuter. The infinitive is the subject of diovu, as, in the 
 phrases del dt'^aodai, dsov d^ao&at, of dsl and otov. 
 
 828. y.r t dog, dead body, as being the object of sorrow, 
 jacfov, burial-place. Comp. 603, but in v. 96, burial. 
 
 831. Besides the reading adopted in the text, we have 
 xansv.o'mctisov, preferred by Monk, and yax ixapa&v. The 
 preceding imperfects seem to have caused the alteration of 
 xafid£to, — which is properly used, as denoting an action not 
 fully ended, — into ixapaZov, and the other reading then 
 easily arose, shot is often used in questions containing in- 
 dignation or displeasure. Comp. 957, and Mt. § 603. 
 
 832. oov (fjv) to ^17 qguocu, it icas your part, i. e. your 
 fault, not to tell. Monk and Matthias regard oov as an ex- 
 clamation, and the infinitive as standing absolutely; so that 
 the sense is, shame to you not to have told me ! Such a 
 construction we have in Medea 1051, «AA« rrjg ep^g y.ay.r t g ! 
 to y.ul TiQoioSr/.L pal&axovg Xoyovg (fowl : but my cowardice ! 
 that I should even waste mild considerations upon my mind. 
 Comp. Mt. § 544. But had this been the turn of thought, 
 oov would hardly have stood alone, without some exclama- 
 tory word. 
 
 833. 7iQooy.£t[X(u y.oiy.o), and v.ay.ov ngooy.ural poi are both 
 said, ngoy.sipsvov is read here, but its signification, impend- 
 ing, is unsuitable to the place. In v. 551, where ngoxetpi- 
 vr\q occurs without variant, 7rooorx. is probably to be restored. 
 Otherwise ngoxeipsvog must take the sense of being present 
 which does not seem to be admissible. 
 
 10* 
 
106 ALCESTIS. 
 
 836. in is for (p. See this use of ix after verbs of sight, 
 in the note on Soph. Electr. 894. The dead were buried 
 along the roads, just out of the gates of cities, both by the 
 Greeks and Romans. Thus the Athenians buried citizens 
 slain in war in the outer suburb Ceramicus ; and tombs 
 border the Appian Way to the walls of Rome, as well as 
 the street which passes through the excavated suburb of 
 Pompeii. 
 
 839. llUxTQV(tivo<; *yuvax\ the vulgar reading, is objection- 
 able, as omitting the argument, — a license which was very 
 seldom resorted to in trimeters, and only at the beginning of 
 a verse. Blomfield's conjecture, "Hhy.jgvovog iyslrai, has 
 been confirmed by the Copenhagen MS., and is approved by 
 Elmsley, Matthias, and Dindorf. The penult of the genitive 
 of nouns in <av varies. Thus Idxwimv makes -ovog in Bac- 
 chae 230, but -cjvog in Apollod. iii. 4, 6. ed. Heyne. 
 
 841. Idgvsiv taken with tig and an accusative, by a sort of 
 constructio pragnans, denotes not only to set down or pat in 
 a place, but also to carry into it. Comp. oxrjoai, vsag slg 
 Al'/VTiTov, to convey ships to the Nile, and station them there ; 
 sqxxvt] X1g slg odov, a lion came and appeared in the icay. 
 These examples are Passow's, from Homer. 
 
 S45. nivovta governs nqoatpcr/ixdioiv partitively ; drinking 
 of the slaughtered victims; — the most common of idioms in 
 French, and not uncommon in Greek. Comp. Mt. § 323, 
 7tQoo(f(xy t uaTct are victims slaughtered in front of the tomb, 
 or upon it (see Hecuba 41, 524 ; Troades 619), as a gift or 
 offering to the dead, who were supposed to be fond of blood. 
 
 849. tiqlv without up. Porson on Medea 222, says, " Saepe 
 nqip cum subjunctivo jungunt tragici, omisso «V, quod in 
 sermone familiari semper requiritur." Comp. v. 145. 
 
 851. mjxairiQOP nslai'op, bloody libation. neXapog denotes 
 
 1. a cake in the solid form, used in oblations, and burnt; 
 
 2. a thick fluid like some libations, spoken of honey in frag. 
 13, of Eurip. Cressae ; of foam in madness, Orest. 219, i* 
 
NOTES. 107 
 
 <5' o[iOQ$ov a&Uov | ox6[xaxog acpQwdrj nilavov, o^fxdxcov x' tfxtov. 
 and here of blood. Comp. Rhesus 430, al^axtiqbg niluvog 
 r t vxluxo loyxy. The idea of an offering is also suggested by 
 the word in the present instance. — xuv nuxa is in apposition 
 with the two next words. 
 
 852. KoQTjg. Proserpine, the xoqtj /Irj^rjxgog, bore that 
 name by eminence, as Castor and Pollux among all the sons 
 of Jupiter were especially called /Jlooxovqoi. 
 
 860. The chorus and Admetus now return. Prevost 
 asks why Hercules did not meet them on the way. But 
 the tragic poets are not very scrupulous as to improbabilities 
 off the stage. The scene from 860 to 961 is taken up with 
 the laments of Admetus and the responses of the chorus. 
 
 865. nug uv with the optative often expresses a wish. 
 Comp. Mt. § 513. 
 
 867. Aristoph. parodies this in the Wasps 751, xtlrwv 
 i'ganat, v.tl&i ysvolf.iav, by which words Philocleon refers to 
 the judges and the court-house. 
 
 870. opriQog denotes, 1. actively joining together, hence 
 a hostage : 2. passively joined together, a partner , as here. 
 
 874. <5*' odmag tiSag. A periphrasis is often made by a 
 verb of motion with a noun and Sia. Such expressions 
 properly denote to be in a course of, to pass through. Comp. 
 Soph. Electr. sub Jin. 
 
 879. The sense here is plain, but the opinions about the 
 construction are various. Some suppose an ellipsis of r h 
 which is " vix ferenda," says Schaefer on Bos (under tj). 
 Mt.'s pinion may be seen in his Gr. § 450, Obs. 2. Schaefer 
 (loc. cit.) puts xl — (iu'Qov in parenthesis, which is flat. 
 Hermann on Ellipsis and Pleonasm (Opuscula, i. 206) 
 makes ulo%ov depend on f.uT£ov, construing thus, what evil 
 is greater in respect of losing than a faithful wife ? This 
 I presume does not satisfy any one else, nor indeed did it 
 please its author long ; for in his Notes on Elmsley's Medea, 
 v. 633 (Opusc. iii. 204,) he construes a[ici§zuv as in appo- 
 
108 ALCESTIS. 
 
 sition with xaxov, thus : to lose a faithful wife, — what is a 
 greater evil? 
 
 880. fiy tiote — dopovg, I ivish that I had never married, 
 and lived in this house with her. wyslov, with the infinitive 
 present, may denote either a wish that something were now 
 happening which is not, or that some continued action might 
 have been done, which was not : but, with the infinitive 
 aorist, cuepdov expresses a wish relative to an event of past 
 time. See Mt. § 513, Obs. 3, whose statement, however, is 
 not quite accurate. 
 
 883. xy iq . See 244, note. 
 
 887. axixvovg — ■ aya^ovq take the case of the subject of 
 the infinitive. The tragic style abounds in instances like 
 this ; but, by the ordinary construction, they should be 
 datives agreeing in case with a pronoun depending on £$6v. 
 
 895. limai cpiltav. See v. 336. 
 
 897. fupai, sc. ifAavTov. Comp. Cyclops 166, cited by 
 Monk. 
 
 900-902. ipv X ag — diaftavrs. Soph. Gr. § 137, N. 1. 
 
 901. The old reading here was avviax^v, but, as av was 
 thought to be required, Porson,Gaisford, and Monk read aw- 
 to% av. Elmsley on Medea, 416, 417, Note p., objects that s 
 is not elided in the third person singular of verbs before the 
 particle av, d% av, Ion 353, being the only instance of the 
 occurrence of this elision in the old editions. Adopting the 
 remark of this most able scholar, either with Dindorf read 
 avv av zoxtv, — which is purely conjectural, — or avviaxw 
 without av, which might stand, if the speaker conceived of 
 the condition (viz. throwing himself into the tomb) as being 
 actually fulfilled. So we say in English, " I had fainted 
 unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the 
 land of the living," for I should have fainted; and in Latin 
 (Horat. Carm. ii. 17,) " me truncus illapsus cerebro sustu- 
 leraf, nisi Faunus ictum dextra levasset," for sustulisset. 
 See this principle defended by Hermann, in his note on 
 
NOTES. 109 
 
 Soph. Elect. 902, and Treatise on the Particle «V. (i. 13. 
 Opusc. iv. 71, seq.) (at the end.) As ys is of no use to 
 the sense, and owaviozsv (sic) is now known to be in one 
 MS., I have in this edition (1841) adopted Hermann's and 
 W. Dindorf 's last reading ovv av Xoy^v. ovv means together. 
 
 904. h yevsi, of kin. Comp. Soph. CEd. R. 1016. 
 
 906, 907. liovonaiQ = [tovog. See vv. 407, 428. ahg 
 
 = ustqIcoq. Comp. ei ahg tldoi Kvnpig, Medea 630. 
 
 909. 7iqo7tiTr t g, properly, falling or hanging foncard, 
 leaning over ; here verging. 
 
 910. Jacobs supposes an allusion to be contained in these 
 lines to Anaxagoras, who, when he heard of his son's death, 
 said ; " Sciebam me genuisse mortalem." That the poet 
 alluded to this saying of his master under the person of 
 Theseus in another play, we know from Cic. Tusc. Quaest. 
 iii. 14, cited by Valckenaer, Diatrib. p. 28 ; but there is no 
 certainty that he did here. 
 
 911. w oyj^ia do^iwv : a circumlocution for dofxot. 
 
 913. (.uranimovcog daifxovog, now that my fortune is chang- 
 ing, or is different, fisxanijixuv is properly used of dice 
 falling with a different face upwards. 
 
 921. slusv is for d'ljuEr, a rarer but equally pure form. 
 The optative stands here in oratio obliqua, the words being 
 made use of by Admetus not as hi§ own, but as the burden 
 of the marriage songs. 
 
 925. See note on Antig. 425. 
 
 926. nuou, during. 
 
 931. Comp. 117. All the MSS. have noUolg, which 
 must be a false reading, unless dufiugjugy the reading of a 
 good MS., be adopted, — du^agrog in the singular is used 
 with reference to each particular case. 
 
 949. Here oXav may be translated as if it were on joiav- 
 trjv, and they (the servants who were pointed at) lament that 
 they have lost such a mistress. But dianoiiv properly follows 
 OTtvuaiv, upon the principle explained in the note on v. 658. 
 
110 ALCESTIS. 
 
 It is common for olog to follow verbs of lamenting, pitying, 
 and the like, in this way. Comp. Xen. Cyrop. vii. 3, 13, 
 xaiOLXXElgcav trjv yvvouxct o'iov avdgog axigotzo, xal tov clvdga, 
 oXav yvvaixa xaiodiTicov ovxix oipono. 
 
 952. Monk cites from ^Esch. Persae 123, yvvawonhi&yg 
 
 960. xvdlojv, comparative of xvdgog, occurs but twice in 
 the tragic poets, here and in Androm. 639. Its proper 
 meaning, more glorious, seems to have been generalized 
 into more to be prized, better, xvdiov, xqsIzxov, algsxwzsQov, 
 Hesych. ; xvdgog, xovx' eoxlv ayu&og, riixiog, Etym. Mag. 
 After this comparative xov xe&vavac is to be supplied. 
 
 961. xuxwg xXvovxi, male audienti. 
 
 962. The sense is, I have soared both in song and in lofty 
 speculations, [xsxagaiog points at speculations about ^eiiojgoi 
 or celestial phenomena, which were then a principal part of 
 philosophy. This is spoken, as the Schol. remarks, rather 
 in the character of the poet, than of the chorus. 
 
 964. loywv, either discourses of a philosophical nature, or 
 statements, propositions of that description. 
 
 967 - 969. oaviSsc, tablets of ivood, fabled to have been 
 preserved near Mount Ha±mus. Comp. the Schol. on Hecuba 
 1243, (ed. Matthiae.) t«c, the article used as a rela- 
 tive. Among Attic writers only the poets do this, and that 
 
 not in the masculine or feminine nominative. "Ogcpua 
 
 yrjgvg is, according to Monk, a circumlocution for Orpheus. 
 But there ought to be a reason for each particular circumlo' 
 cution, and especially for so rare a one. It would not do to 
 put "Ogyeiog novg in its place. That reason is found in the 
 fact, that the words inscribed on the tablets proceeded from 
 the voice of Orpheus as well as from his hand. 
 
 972. avrixifivuv properly denotes to cut a root as a specif c 
 against disease, to furnish a medicine. So also avxixo^ia are 
 specif cs, especially simples. 
 
NOTES. Ill 
 
 975. nXii i acpayloiv, i. e. hears the prayers with which the 
 victims were offered up. 
 
 978. o u for o it up. See v. 76. 
 
 9S0. This nation was called XuXvfioi, as here, (comp. 
 frag. Eurip. Cret.,) or more usually XuXvfieg, for which comp. 
 Prometh. 715. 
 
 982. ccjioiofiog. See v. 118. The sense is, nor hast 
 
 thou any shame for thy harsh spirit, i. e. thou art inflexibly 
 stern. Comp. aloxvrij iwids, shame for, Soph. Electr. 616. 
 
 983. xal a. Admetus is now addressed. The change 
 of person is the less abrupt, as it occurs at the beginning of 
 a new strophe. 
 
 985. Comp. Eurip. Diet. frag. 1 ; doxstg zov adtjv — nuid' 
 uvijoeiv tov oov, ec -diXtig a si ois'vsiv. 
 
 989. oxotioi, Schol. ro&oi. He quotes from Iliad vi. 24, 
 axoxiov di k ytivujo [xr^o. But Hermann translates oxotlol 
 tp&irovai more correctly by ad Orci tentbras abeunt. oxo- 
 zlol = iv oxoto), or w<jte iv oxoto) sivai. 
 
 994. xXioloug. Schol., ol'xoig. And Wakefield says, that 
 it is indifferent whether we translate this word house or bed. 
 This would be true if Z,sv$ao&ai yvvuixa Xs/st, were not a 
 natural and ordinary expression. Comp. Ion 900. I doubt 
 if the other, t,sv$ao&ai yvvalxa oXxm, were ever used. xXiola 
 has this sense of bed or place for lying doivn, in Iph. in 
 Taur. 857, slg xXiolav Xs'xtqow doXiav, which resembles the 
 expression used above, v. 925. 
 
 995. qpxhutVcov vsxgwv, the dead that have wasted away, \s 
 whose existence is no more manifested to men, like that of 
 the da^uovsg. 
 
 1000. do/[xlav xsXsv&ov, obliquum callem. " Intellige 
 semitam quae de via publica ad sepulcrum ducit." Wuste- 
 mann. (?). 
 
 1006. In the ensuing scene, Hercules, having forced 
 Death to yield up his prey, brings back Alcestis veiled, and, 
 that the poet may produce an effect by contrast of situation 
 
112 ALCESTIS. 
 
 and by surprise, pretends that she is a prize just won in the 
 games, and requests Admetus to keep her in his house until 
 his own return from Thrace. After many objections Ad- 
 metus consents to admit her, and even to lead her in by the 
 hand ; when her veil is taken off and the discovery is made. 
 The vale is not mentioned, but may be inferred from vv. 
 1050, 1124. This scene is well managed, but essentially 
 comic, as it ends in producing a pleasant surprise. 
 
 1009. \%uv [AO[X(pag vnb anldyxvoig, to keep blame within 
 his breast, sc. concealed. 
 
 1015. Of ilsn/jd(iijv Matthias says, "Nee in Sophocle nee 
 in Euripide hac significatione legere me memini, multo 
 minus in forma media." But he forgot Ion 1032, oxav 
 GTtovdag deotg [xtlliaoi Xslfieiv. And as onerdco is used both 
 in the active and middle, when spoken of libations, so may 
 Xeifiw be used, denoting I make my libations. ehnf'd l ur}v is a 
 word, which the correcting hand of a Scholiast would rather 
 erase than insert ; and proceeded from the poet himself, 
 who wished to avoid using onivdeo and ojiovdug together. 
 For the same reason Sophocles says, anerdorru loifidg, 
 Electr. 270. 
 ^ 1023. nga^ag 8' o (.u) ivyoifii, out if I fare in a way in 
 which may I not chance to fare, i. e. if 1 suffer what I hope 
 
 I may not. Supply Tigd^ag after ivxoi^i. rooi^oai^a ydg, 
 
 for may I return. 
 
 1025. The reading uoUojv {j,6y&(av has strong claims for 
 the preference here, (.wx&ojv is the genitive of price. 
 
 1029. vixmgl t« xovya, sc. d&Xa. " Notum est Graecos 
 dixisse vixav \Luxrp, dycova, u&Xov." Monk. See Soph. Gr. 
 § 164. N. 2. 
 
 1037. iv fyd-QoXoi xiSug, putting among enemies, counting 
 as an enemy. Matthiae and others read cdoygdiai, which has 
 much MS. authority. The sense would then be, not count- 
 ing the sad lot of my wife among things to be ashamed of. 
 But this is not. a natural thought, particularly as Hercules, 
 
NOTES. 113 
 
 when he first came, knew of the measures relating to the 
 death of Alcestis. 
 
 1040. il'TiiQ, the reading of Monk, = siquidcm, and not si, 
 as Mt. remarks. But si is wanted here. 
 
 1044. avtax&h imperative of arcoya, Butt. § 110, 9. Soph. 
 Gr. §91. N. 6. 
 
 1049. nov xai. See 482. 
 
 1050. jiQsnsi, appears. See 512. 
 
 1051. ivoixuv is sometimes transitive, as T7jV#' evoixqosig 
 noliv, Soph. GEd. Col. 1533, and often intransitive ; as in 
 Androm. 857, ovxht wjfd' ivoat^ata ojiyXi- — The student 
 hardly needs to be reminded, that, in Greek houses, the 
 men's and women's apartments were separate. 
 
 1052. axoai<pprjg. This word, used three or four times by 
 the tragic poets, means unmixed, pure. It is usually applied 
 to things; but in Soph. GEd. Col. 1147, to persons; av.oai- 
 cpvelg rwv xairjTisiXTifxsvav, unhurt by the threats that have been 
 made against them. Here it means, as explained by the 
 Schol., ucp&ogog ardgcov. 
 
 1055. In this and the following verses, Admetus does 
 not speak of marriage, but only of permitting her to live 
 
 in the women's apartment, and in his wife's chamber. 
 
 Etofi-rjoag. The first aorist and future active of /Ja/vw, used 
 only in Ionic and poetic style, have an active sense like 
 
 O O '5« 
 
 1060. uiia osfeiv. See 434. 
 
 1063. i'a&L e'xovoa. Comp. 150. ttqoo^i^ul, art like to 
 
 her. Hesych. ngoor k iy.xai, ngoosoixs. This form, which is 
 hardly to be met with elsewhere, follows the analogy of the 
 Homeric word ij'iy.To, pluperf. pass, of the obsolete il'yw, 
 il'xeiv meant to liken, make like, and the passive would thus 
 be to be made like, be like. 
 
 1065. ilr t g figriptvov, perdas perditum, Buchan. Schol., , / 
 sXr t g, (poi'svojjg, yiQUT^a^g. The sense is, lest you overcome 
 (i. e. with grief excited by the presence of one like 
 11 
 
114 ALCESTIS. 
 
 Alcestis in form) me, who have been already overcome 
 with that grief. 
 
 1068. xaTiQQwyaoiv, burst doion, burst out and fall down , 
 gush down. The idea down is however often lost, as in the 
 expression, yeXwg xaTsg^dyr}. Let the student notice that 
 this second perf. is a present in a neuter sense. Soph. Gr. 
 §§ 205. N. 2 : 209. N. 4. 
 
 1069. ojg vcqti, hoiv but just now. 
 
 1071. ooug et ov, a general remark, and rather out of 
 place here. Hermann alters the text into oaxtg tiai. " Sen- 
 sus est," he says, "oportet dei, quisquis veniet, dona susti- 
 nere, i. e. sive beneficus veniet, sive inimicus." 
 
 1072. See 536. 
 
 1075. av qualifies fiovkso&ai, which here answers to the 
 imperfect indicative with av zzz ifiovlov av, odcp oidcc. 
 
 1077. vnegfidkUiVi to shoot beyond, to surpass, is often 
 used intransitively, in the sense to go to excess. The second 
 aor. imperative (Dindorf 's reading) is faulty here not only 
 because firj takes a 'present imperative but an aorist subjunc- 
 tive (for that is a general rule, although it is in some few 
 cases transgressed), but also because continued and not 
 momentary action is contained in this word as much as in 
 
 (ptos, wv. This is Monk's reading for vvv. The enclitic 
 
 vvv which has here its usual meaning with the imperative, is 
 shown by Monk to be sometimes long, though usually short 
 in the Attic poets. Others write vvv with the same sense, 
 if the syllable is long, so that the question becomes one 
 about accent. evaioljmg. Schol., xa&rjxovnog. 
 
 1079. TigoxonToig — u &steig. Where that which is under 
 condition, is assumed as a matter of fact, but the conse- 
 quence only is conjectured, el takes an indicative in the one 
 clause, and a verb in the optative appears in the other. 
 
 1080. [i i&yei. This is quoted by Galen without fi\ 
 The pronoun interferes with Poison's canon concerning the 
 
NOTES. 115 
 
 fifth foot in iambics (see 671), and there is a certain ele- 
 gance of style in omitting it. — egwg rig, Schol., rov rrgyvtlv. 
 
 1085. r\fia aoi. r\fiu.uv.u, the other reading, would mean, 
 according to Mt., Monk, and Blomfield, is growing up to its 
 prime, not is at its prime, and the word does not occur in 
 the Attic poets. Hermann, Pflugk, and others deny this and 
 read yfiaoxH. 
 
 1086. you might say time, if to die were time, i. e. that 
 only can soothe me. 
 
 1088. ovx uv moptjv, I should not think, sc. that you said 
 it, if I had not heard. This phrase may compare with 
 our English one, you cannot think, which is often used 
 elliptically in common life. 
 
 10S9. a).).u yjiosvou Xsyog, but ic ill your bed be widowed? 
 This reading is preferable to ullu yrjgsvosig povog, which 
 Monk adopts. 
 
 1093. The accusative of a noun signifying some quality, 
 is often joined with oq>Xioxava to denote that, the reputation 
 of which is incurred, and the dative of a person is the 
 person in ivhose opinion it is incurred. Thus oqXioxuveiv 
 [Awglav ml denotes to be chargeable with folly in any one's 
 view ; 6. yilwru rin, to be ridiculous in one's eyes, xrao&cu, 
 cpsQEiv, and e/siv take an accusative in a somewhat similar 
 sense. Comp, Antig. 924, r?,v dvoosfieiccv evoe.jovo' sxrijod- 
 prjv, by acting piously I gained the reputation of impiety ; 
 Soph. Electr. 968, svasSsiuv ex nurgog ol'osi, thou icilt get 
 praise for piety from our father ; Medea 297, yooglg ugylag 
 7jg %xovaiv, beside the indolence that they get the credit of; 
 Id. 218. dvaxlsiotv ixTTjaarro xat Qu&Vfiluv. 
 
 1094. v.alojv is future. Matthias supplies ovrojg i'a&i, but 
 perhaps ovzcog al'vsi may be more naturally understood from 
 the preceding clause. Wiistemann makes the sentence 
 interrogative, and supplies fxwglav oybjoa. 
 
 1095. A number of aorists, and none more frequently 
 than ijiyvsoa, seem to be used in a similar manner with the 
 
116 ALCESTIS. 
 
 present. See Hermann's Notes on Viger, note 162, for ex- 
 amples. Although the present might be used in such cases 
 and express the truth, yet the mind reverts to a past time, 
 when the feeling or thought first began. Comp. Soph. Gr. 
 § 212. N. 4. 
 
 1096. y.alneQ ovx ovaav, tliougli she is no more, xamtg 
 /u?) ovoav would mean, though she were no more. 
 
 1098. Comp. v. 275, for the order of the words. 
 
 1101. k 8iov niooiy may turn out of advantage. See 
 817. Comp. Helena 1082, to <5' udhov xstv' syTVxsg tux 
 av niaoi, but that misery may perhaps turn out fortunate. 
 Our verb to fall has the same sense as this of nlnxuv. 
 
 1106. The sense is, she ought, unless at least thou art 
 about to be angry with me (for so saying) ; oq*/uIvziv is neuter 
 also in Soph. Trachin. 552, quoted by Matthias. 
 
 1112. Monk reads dofiovg, thinking that the syntax de- 
 mands an accusative. But see Mt. § 402, c, for examples 
 of other verbs compounded with dg, which take an accusa- 
 tive or dative indifferently. Here perhaps the dative may 
 be used by constructio prcegnans ; the verb of motion im- 
 plying not only leading into, but also placing in the house. 
 
 1117. TTQoiiivui. The aorist, and not the present infinitive, 
 is required here, as a momentary act is spoken of. tiqotsivs, 
 the reading of some MSS., was put for nqoxuvm by the 
 copyists, who pronounced ai and « alike ; and from nyozsivs, 
 ngoTuiEiv naturally arose. 
 
 1118. IoQyov^ is an instance of the elision of i in the 
 dative singular. The same elision in the dative plural is no- 
 where found in the Attic poets. Nine instances like the 
 present, have been noticed by Elmsley, on Heraclidre 693 ? in 
 the tragic poets, all of which he attempts to amend, and in 
 this passage reads xaocao^oj', making Foyyov' an accusative 
 dependent on &t$6(AH'og, which may be supplied from the 
 preceding line. But the MSS. all support the received text; 
 the subaudition of di^o^vog is harsh; and diytiv rarely 
 
NOTES. 117 
 
 governs an accusative. Porson (Suppl. ad. Praef. Hec. p. 22.) 
 cites this passage in defence of the elision, and with him 
 agree Matthiae (note on the place, and Gr. § 44.) and others. 
 But Hermann (Elem. p. 35, ed. Glasg.) very rationally sup- 
 poses, that there may be a synizesis, or union in pronuncia- 
 tion of i and to without actual elision. Comp. Prometh. 680, 
 where alcpvldiog, the best reading, can have but three sylla- 
 bles. I'ooyovL y.aguTot.io), the beheaded Gorgon ; but her 
 
 head is meant. 
 
 1119. The MSS. connect val with l/«, but Monk re- 
 marks, that it ought to begin a sentence ; and should pre- 
 cede 6/o) if taken with it. It may be rendered ivell then. 
 
 1121. For TtoinsLv, see the note on 512. 
 
 1125. The sense is, or does some heart-cutting (mocking, 
 deceitful) joy from a god throw me out of my senses ? i. e. 
 is this pleasant sight which overpowers me, produced by 
 some god to mock me ? 
 
 1126. T?;r<5' oQuq 8df.iagia oi']v, here you see your wife. 
 See the note on v. 24. 
 
 1128. The sense is, this one whom you made your guest 
 is no necromancer : literally, you made this one your guest, 
 not being a necromancer. Buchanan's version and others 
 give to inonjoo) the sense of accounting, taking for. 
 
 1130. unioTHv Tixqv. tv/tjv and not fi#jj appears to be 
 the true reading, unioxuv ivzijv, is, according to Hermann, 
 non credere verum esse quod accidit, umoiiiv tv/jj, fortunm 
 non fdere. 
 
 1134. ovTiois is taken with doxuv, not with oipza&ai, which 
 would require ^. See Elmsley on Medea 487, and Her- 
 mann's remarks on that edition. 
 
 1135. cp&ovog ds. The Greeks held, that, when a man 
 had an excess of good fortune, or felt unduly elevated above 
 the condition of mortals, the gods were envious or indig- 
 nant, and reduced him to the common level. The same 
 general feeling was called vi^oig, i. e. the assignment of the 
 
 11* 
 
118 ALCEST1S. 
 
 proper share, retribution, retributive anger. Nemesis, this 
 feeling or course of providence personified, crushed the pride 
 and greatness of men by reverses of fortune. Cornp. Soph. 
 Electr. 1466, 1467. 
 
 1140. dai t u6vcov rw xvqIoj. Jacobs, followed by Monk, — 
 and by Matthias in his text, — reads vsqtsqcov for duiftovav, 
 because the Scholiast says, ?J t& twv vsy.gaiv y.vgiM. But they 
 seem not to have noticed, that he immediately adds yaol yag 
 Tovg vsxgovg dtxt'iiorag, whence it appears that he read daifio- 
 vwr, and that rsxgcov was a mere explanation. There is then 
 no support for the correction of Jacobs. Nor is the Scho- 
 liast in the right ; for, though some philosophers may have 
 called the manes in general daljiovtg, no traces of this ap- 
 pear, I believe, in Euripides. Matthiae, in his notes, favors 
 daifxovojv, and governs it by to>, so that the sense is, with 
 that one of the deities who is lord (in this business, i. e. who 
 has power, slg "Aidov dofiovg xaiuysiv, v. 26). Hermann 
 adopts this construction, but supplies with xvgla xov gjjv r\ 
 fi7) £fjv. Where the words supplied by him or by Matthias 
 are obtained from, it is not easy to see. May not the sense 
 be simply, with the lord or chief of the deities, — a boastful 
 and exaggerated description of Death ? So Eurip. (frag. 
 Aug. 3,) calls Cupid anuvxiav daifiorwv viisgravov. Comp. 
 Antig. 338. The nature of the case showed who was 
 meant. 
 
 1146. ayayviariTai. This verb means, according to Heath, 
 with whom Monk agrees, not purifcare, but dcsecrare. He 
 adds, that a contrary ceremony is intended by it to that 
 denoted by ayvlaj], v. 76. But what ceremony contrary to 
 cutting off a lock of hair can be conceived of? ucpayrl^to is 
 a rare word in the early Greek writers. Wakefield adduces 
 from Hippocrates de Morbo Sacro, acpayvlaaodoa fAvaog, to 
 purify one's self from pollution. Harpocration defines 
 acpoaiow by <x7io%a&otlgb), acpayn'^w. Hence the sense seems 
 to be here, before she shall have purified herself i. e. offered 
 
NOTES. 119 
 
 -purificatory sacrifices to the gods below. She was polluted 
 by the contact of death, as those were who touched a dead 
 body. Plutarch, in his " Quaestiones Romanse, No. 5, speak- 
 ing of persons supposed to be dead, who reappeared, or 
 came to life again, says, that " the Greeks did not regard as 
 pure, nor suffer to associate with themselves, nor allow to 
 come to sacred places, those who had been laid out and 
 buried for dead : and the Romans would not permit such 
 persons to return through the door, but required them to go 
 over the roof into the open court within the house, because 
 almost all their purifications are performed in the open air." 
 
 tq'ltov cpdog. Another kind of pollution mentioned by 
 
 Tibullus, ii. 1, 11, excluded in like manner from the altars 
 until the third day, or the day but one after. — The poet 
 had his own private reason for not allowing Alcestis to 
 speak. He had, as we have seen, but two grown-up actors, 
 one of whom was now playing Hercules, having previously 
 appeared as Alcestis, and in several other characters. 
 
 1147. dlxaiog tor, being obligated, as in justice bound, 
 dUuiog nut often stands for 8Uai6v ioxiv iui. So Musgrave 
 and Monk explain dly.aiog here, but Matthias prefers its more 
 common signification. The passage would then mean, being 
 just, hereafter show piety (i. e. that respect which divine 
 laws demand) towards thy guests. But, with this rendering, 
 dlxatog wV, to say the least, is nearly idle. What Hercules 
 meant to utter is a sort of moral derived from the play : 
 " Treat your guests well hereafter, as in duty bound to do, 
 after what you have experienced from one of them." 
 
 1153. rooTii.iov d' ll&oig nodoc. There are three readings 
 in this line, odor, do^ov, noda. Of these the first has the 
 least authority, and wears the look of an emendation, but 
 appears in most editions, as it affords an easy sense. The 
 second has more, but rooTiy.ov 86(xov is a phrase without 
 meaning, noda has the most, and the singularity of il&eiv 
 noda gave rise to the other readings. This reading is, I 
 
120 ALCESTIS. 
 
 think, fully defended by many similar passages, in which 
 noda follows an intransitive verb of motion ; e. g. inl yaiag 
 noda ne&voav, above, v. 869 ; ist/iuiv ph ivibg ov ftalro) noda, 
 Eurip. Electr. 94 ; o'ide fialvovou i£ ol'xwv noda, Id. 1173; 
 (see Seidler on v. 94) ; exfiag te&qltttiojv "tD.oq aQ^axwv noda 
 i'ort], Heraclidae 802; anaXXdooov noda, Medea 729. Other 
 examples of noda after tpfiaivuv, nooSalvsir, may be found in 
 Porson's note on Orestes 1427. But if (Saba or eoit} noda 
 can be said, why not rjl&ov noda 1 nor does the adjective 
 change the analogy. In these cases it is probable that the 
 verbs become transitive, like ai'ooa in Soph. Ajax 40, where 
 see Hermann's note. It is remarkable, that, to step, an in- 
 transitive, adopts the same construction with foot, and we 
 sometimes hear to tread foot also. 
 
 1154. jtTQUQxia. This was the division of Thessaly in 
 our poet's day, and probably long before, having been intro- 
 duced by Aleuas the Red-haired, in very early times. The 
 same division was observed by Philip of Macedon, when he 
 gained the mastery over Thessaly. See Harpocration voce 
 TSTQagyja, whom several commentators cite. See also Butt- 
 mann on the Aleuadas, in the Berlin Academy's Philolog. 
 Trans, for 1822- 1823, and Boeckh on Pindar, Pyth. 10. 
 
 1157. (j.Ex>i}QiAoo}.aa&a. This verb denotes, in the middle, 
 to assume or adopt, in lieu of something expressed or im- 
 plied. Comp. Prometh. 309, pt&dg^ooai igonovg viovg ; 
 Meleagr. Epigr. cxxv. 6. c T(i£vaiog oiya&ug, yoegov cpdtypa 
 
 [IZ&aQlAOGaTO. 
 
 1158. ov yuQ evtv%(x)v agvijuofAai. Soph. Gr. § 222. 2. 
 Comp. dgvsl yMTuxxdg ,- dost thou deny having slain ? Orest. 
 1598 (1581). This verb more commonly takes an infinitive. 
 
 1 159. These closing anapaests are found at the end of 
 Medea (excepting the first line), of Helena, Bacchce, and 
 Andromache. 
 
METRES. 
 
 28 — 37. An anapaestic system, sc. of dimeters. 
 
 77 — 85. Two anapaestic systems, 77 — 82, and 83 — 85. 
 V. 78 closes with a hiatus, which is not admissible in ana- 
 paestic systems, unless the speaker is changed, or for some 
 other extraordinary reason. 
 
 86 — 92. =98—104. 
 
 Verse]. Iambic dimeter. 
 2.= 1. 
 
 3. Choriambus and iambus. (Choriam. dimeter.) 
 
 4. Dactylic penthemim. with basis. 
 
 5. The same with anacrusis. ^ ' _£_ ~ ~ _ ^ _ _ 
 
 6. Dactyl, trimeter catalect. in dissyllabum with 
 
 anacrusis. . . _/_ II j_ w w ~ ~ _ 
 
 7. Dochmius hypercatalect. ±?± ^ j_ 
 See Hermann's Elementa, ii. 21, 12. Or this line may 
 
 be a Bacchiac dimeter. 
 
 93 — - 97. Anapaestic verses, but not a regular system. 
 V. I, and v. 5, paroemiacs ; the rest, dimeters. See Herm. 
 El. ii. 32, 13. 
 
 105 — III. Anapaestic verses. V. 1, and v. 3, paroe- 
 miacs; v. 2. a monometer catalect., if the text is rizht : the 
 rest form a regular system. 
 
 112— 121. = 122— 131. 
 
 Verse 1. Iambic dipody and creticus. w ,_ w 
 or cretic dimeter with anacrusis. 
 
122 ALCESTIS. 
 
 2. Ithyphallicus, i. e. trochaic tripody. j_ w _ w _ _ 
 
 3. Choriambus with basis. . _^_ _/_ j j_ w w _ 
 
 4. =3. . . . _L~~|_~~_ 
 
 5. Adonius with anacrus. = CEd. R. 896. 
 
 6. Pherecrateus. . . j_ j_ | j_ w w 
 
 7. Iambic dimeter. ^ _/_ w _ w jf~^ w _ 
 8 = 7. 
 
 9. Dochmius. . ,—v •-> , 
 
 10. Logacedic dactyl, (one dact., two trochees, or 
 choriamb, dimeter catalect.) 
 For the form of v. 3. comp. Ajax 195. For the hiatus 
 after l^w in the strophe, comp. Herm. El. ii. 21, 9. Monk 
 gives ova %w 'nl, a trochaic dipody, with a logaced. anapaest, 
 for the next line. 
 
 132 — 136. Epode of the foregoing, like 105 — 111, 
 with three anapaests less. Vv. 1, 2, are regarded by Herm. 
 as a choriamb, trimeter hypercatalect. 
 
 213 — 225. =226 — 237. 
 
 Verse 1. Dochmius and trochaic penthemim. 
 
 2. Iambic dimeter and trochaic dimeter catalect 
 Called by Hephaestion, versus Euripideus. 
 Comp. Herm. El. iii. 8, 17. 
 
 3. Uncertain. 
 
 4. Choriamb, tetrameter catalect. This is one 
 
 form of the versus Priapeus. Comp. CEd. Col. 
 1695, 1696. 
 
 5. Two trochaic penthemim. 
 
 6. Iambic penthemim. and logaced. dactyl. A 
 
METRES. 123 
 
 verse like this is cited by Herm., El. iii. 8, 25. 
 w _/_ w w |_Lww ^ ~ _ 
 
 7. Two iambuses, pronounced apart, -j- -^- _ 
 
 8. Iamb, trimeter. 
 
 9. Iamb, trimeter catalect. 
 
 10. Uncertain. 
 
 11. Logaced. anapaestic verse with iambic bases. 
 
 12. Logaced. anapaest. ^ wl ^^ w _ 
 
 Verse 3, according to Matthiae, begins with a spondee 
 and an anapaest. Monk gives eg to the preceding line, 
 making it a choriamb, dimeter. It may be choriamb, dime- 
 ter with anacrusis. 
 
 Verse 10 is in the strophe, but _ _ 
 
 in the antistrophe. Monk produces uniformity by expelling 
 xal rvv, and rav : and forms a troch. dimeter out of this 
 verse and part of the foregoing. But xul vvv is plainly 
 necessary. The text of this verse is otherwise doubtful. 
 
 239 — 242. An anapaestic system. 
 
 243 — 246. = 247 — 251. 
 
 Verse 1. Logaced. dactyl. (Comp. Herm. El. ii. 30, 2.) 
 
 2. Dochmius, and Choriamb, dimeter catalectic. 
 
 — w w J- ~ ±. I J- ~ ~ _ w , 
 
 3, 4. Iambic trimeters. 
 
 252 — 258. = 259 — 265. 
 
 Verse 1. Iamb, dipody, and two logaced. anapaest, clauses. 
 
 This verse can be variously divided. 
 
 2. Iamb, tetrameter catalect. 
 
 3. Choriamb, dimeter hypercatalect., with basis ; 
 
124 ALCESTIS. 
 
 and a logacedic dactylic close. Comp. Philoct. 
 710, for the first part. 
 
 4, 5. Iambic trimeters. 
 266 — 272. Epode of the foregoing. For these lines, as 
 arranged by Herm., see his El. ii. 22, 6. As divided in the 
 text they are. 
 
 Verse 1. Iamb, dimeter catalect. _ J""^, _ J""^, w _ _ 
 
 2. Troch. dimeter catalect. 
 
 3. Adonius. 
 
 4. Two iamb, penthemim., the first with a double 
 
 anacrusis. Comp. Ajax 717. 
 
 5. Dochmius. _ /fT / ^ ' . 
 For the hiatus and short final syllable, comp. 
 
 Herm. El. ii. 21,8. 
 
 6. Dochmius and molossus (which is read like a 
 bacchius). 
 
 _ w ^ 1-__L»_-jL_l« (?) 
 See Seidler de Vers. Dochm. i. § 56. 
 
 7. Iamb, trimeter catalectic. 
 273 — 279. An anapgestic system. 
 
 393 _ 403. =406—414. 
 
 Verse 1. Dochmius, and troch. penthemim. == 213. 
 
 2. Iamb, dimeter. 
 
 3. Dochmius. . . . w /"7 / w j 
 
 4. Iamb, dipody with a double anacrusis and creti- 
 
 cus. Comp. Soph. Electr. 207. 
 
 5. Dochmius. 
 
METRES. 125 
 
 6, 7. Two iambic tripodies. (il makes no position, 
 according to Hermann, as in Bacchae 1801. 
 
 i* o ^ w u 
 
 J w - — ~ -£■ 
 
 8. Logaced. anapaest, and ithyphallicus. 
 
 9. Iamb, ischiorrhogicus. . w _/_ w j /. 
 
 10. Two dactyls. 
 
 11. Dochmius and dochmius hypercatalect. 
 
 For v. 11, comp. Herm. El. ii. 30, 4. 
 
 435 _ 444. = 445 — 454. 
 Verse 1. Dactyl, penthemim. 
 
 2. Logaced. dactyl, (a versus Alcaicus) with ana- 
 crusis. . . £_v_~_v^^ ~ 
 
 3. Logaced. anapaest, (two anapaests and iambic 
 penthemim.) . w ^ j_ w w ^ _ ^ __ _ 
 
 4. Two Dactyl, trimeters catalect. in dissyl. (or 
 
 dactyl, hexameter) with anacrusis. 
 
 5=1. 
 
 6. Ithyphal. 
 
 7 = 3. 
 
 8 == 215, with anacrusis. 
 
 455 — 465 = 466 — 475. 
 
 Verse 1. Logaced. dactyl, (one dact., two trochees.) 
 
 2. Pherecrateus. 
 
 3. Logaced. anapaest, (two anapaests, and iamb. 
 
 dipody catalect,) . _^j_ww_^_ 
 
 4 = 2. 
 
 5. Antispast. and iamb, penthemim. 
 
 i 
 
 6 = v. 3 of the first strophe of this ode. 
 12 
 
126 ALCESTIS. 
 
 7 = 106. Probably a short anapaestic line, and not 
 an Ionicus a minore. 
 
 8. Logaced. anapaest, (one anapaest, and iamb. 
 
 penthemim.) with basis. 
 
 9. Four anapaestic spondees. 
 10. Dactyl, tetrameter. 
 
 11 = 10, followed by two trochees, (logaced. dactyl.) 
 12. Antispast and troch. dipody. 
 
 569 — 578. =579 — 587. 
 
 Verse 1. Troch. dipody, (epitritus,) and a logaced. dac- 
 tyl, clause, (called versus Praxilleus.) 
 
 2. Logaced. dactyl, with anacrusis, (two dactyls, 
 
 three trochees.) v | _/_,_, w ^^_^ w 
 
 3. Ithyphal. 
 
 4. Iamb, penthemim. and Choriamb. 
 
 5 = 3. 
 
 6. Glyconean. _/_ £ _i_~~_~_ 
 
 7. Glyconic (one syllable shorter than the Glyco- 
 
 nean at the beginning) with a trochee. 
 
 5. Pherecratean. 
 
 588 — 596. = 597 — 605. 
 
 Verse 1. Dactyl, penthemim. with anacrusis. 
 
 2. Dactyl, penthemim. preceded by troch. dipody. 
 
 3r=2. 
 
 4. Logaced. dactyl, (five dactyls, two trochees.) 
 
 5. A logaced. or Glyconic clause with anacrusis, 
 
 followed by a choriamb. 
 
 6. Creticus and dochmius hypercatalect. (or two 
 Bachii.) . j_ w _ _^_ j_ ^ j_ 
 
METRES. 127 
 
 7. Antispast. and iamb, penthemim. 
 
 For the last two verses see Herrn. El. iii. 13, 3. 
 
 741 — 746. An anapajstic system. 
 861—871, 878— 88S, 895 — 902, 911 — 925, ana- 
 paestic systems. 
 
 872 — 877. = 889 — 894. 
 Verse 1. Two iamb, penthemim. 
 
 2. Antispast. and dochmius. 
 
 3. Dochrnius. _ J"^, _/_ ^ _/_ 
 
 4. Iamb, penthemim. and iamb, tripody. = Soph. 
 
 Electr. 477. ^ _/_ ~ U -2- - - - — ■ This 
 
 verse is interrupted by the interjections. 
 
 5. Iambelegus, i. e. iamb, penthemim. and dactyl. 
 
 penthemim. ~ _L ~ _ ~ | _^_ ~ ^ _ ^ ^ _ 
 
 6 = 465. Antispast. and troch. dipody. The in- 
 terjections correspond in the strophe and an- 
 tistrophe, but are not here given. 
 
 903 — 910. =926 — 934. 
 
 Verse 1. Iamb, dipody and dactyl, tetram. catalect. 
 
 2. Ithyphal. 
 
 3. Anapaest, monometer hypercatalect. 
 
 w w j_ _ _ _ 
 
 4. Iamb, dimeter. w J""^, w J~^ ~ o ^ ~ — 
 
 5=3 __/____ 
 
 6 = 3 _jl-w 
 
 7. Logaoed. anapaest. . . ^ w j_ ^ 
 
128 ALCESTIS. 
 
 962 — 972. =973— 983. 
 Verse 1. Pherecratean. 
 2. Glyconean. 
 
 3 = 2. 
 
 4 = 1. 
 
 5 = 2. 
 
 6 = 1. 
 7=1. 
 
 8. Glyconean -and logaced. dactyl. = Medea 650 
 
 — 651. _/ i |i ww _ w _|i ww _ w _ w 
 9 = 415. Dochmius and logaced. dactyl. 
 
 984 — 994. = 995 — 1005. 
 
 Verse 1. Choriamb, trimeter, and trochee. For this close 
 of choriambic verses see Herm. El. ii. 36, 3 
 and 10. 
 
 2. Choriamb, dimeter hypercatalect. with basis. 
 
 j_ j_ | _/. w _ __ j_ w _ 
 
 3. Choriamb, dimeter catalect. with basis and cho- 
 
 riambus. iiiww_v J_|iw«_ 
 
 4. Iamb, penthemim. and choriambus. 
 
 5. Choriamb, dimeter catalect., or logaced. dactyl, 
 with anacrusis. . w | j_ w w _ w _ 
 
 6 = 5. 
 
 7 = 5. 
 
 8. Choriamb, dimeter, catalect., or logaced. dactyl, 
 with basis. . 11 ll«v_ ~_ 
 
 1 159 — 1 163. An anapaestic system. 
 
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