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ἀργητι· μαλλῷ· τῇδε γὰρ τρανῶς ἐρῶ.
πρόσθεν δὲ τἀνδρὸς τοῦδε θαυμαστὸς λόχος
εὕδει γυναικῶν ἐν θρόνοισιν ἥμενος.
οὔτοι γυναῖκας, ἀλλὰ Γοργόνας λέγω·
οὐδ ̓ αὖτε Γοργείοισιν εἰκάσω τύποις
εἶδόν ποτ ̓ ἤδη Φινέως γεγραμμένας
δεῖπνον φερούσας· ἄπτεροί γε μὴν ἰδεῖν
αὗται, μέλαιναι δ' ἐς τὸ πᾶν βδελύκτροποι
ῥέγκουσι δ ̓ οὐ πλαστοῖσι φυσιάμασιν

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ἐκ δ ̓ ὀμμάτων λείβουσι δυσφιλῆ λίβα ο κοπάσης then f
καὶ κόσμος οὔτε πρὸς θεῶν ἀγάλματα
φέρειν δίκαιος, οὔτ ̓ ἐς ἀνθρώπων στέγας.
τὸ φῦλον οὐκ ὄπωπα τῆσδ ̓ ὁμιλίας,
οὐδ ̓ ἥτις αἷα τοῦτ ̓ ἐπεύχεται γένος

so particularly on the size of the fillet.
But it is scarcely probable that Eschylus
wrote μεγίστῳ. The old emendation,
λήνει μὲν οἶὸς, does not help us; nor is
Hermann's strange compound, μεγιστο
σοφρόνως, justified by μεγιστότιμος in
Suppl. 679. I would suggest to the
reader λήνει μὲν ἐς τὸ σῶφρον ἐξεστεμ
μένον.

45. τῇδε—ἐρῶ. “ For on this point I can speak clearly." She has no doubt about the suppliant, but as to what creatures those may be who are sleeping round him, she is at fault. ἐρῶ, “ I can speak, I am in a condition to speak:" the future seems occasionally to have this potential sense, as εἰκάσω, ν. 49, “I can liken them."

49. Comp. Prom. V. 799, Choeph. 1045.

50. εἶδον—γεγραμμένας. This was, probably, some well-known picture at Athens. Of course it was unnecessary to mention the "Αρπυιαι by name, as the audience would instantly recognise

the allusion in Φίνεως δεῖπνον.—Comp. Milton's "Harpy-footed Furies."

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51. φερούσας, “ plundering,” as in ἄγω καὶ φέρω.—ἄπτερο, they are πτεροφόροι in Eurip. Οrest. 311.—γε μὴν “ tamen.” The ellipse is καὶ τοιαῦταί γ' εἰσὶν αἵδε· ἄπτεροί γε μήν, " and such would these be, were it not that," &c.

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53. οὐ πλαστοῖσι, " unapproachable on account of the virus. Elmsl. on Med. 149 says this word should be written πλατὸς, (as in πλᾶτις, uxor.) But surely πελαστὸς, πλαστός, may come from πελάζω, as θαυμαστὸς from θαυμάζω, στεγαστὸς, ἀσφάδαστος, &c. Comp. Blomf. on Pr. V. 741.

54. λίβα, scil. αἵματος : comp. Choeph. 1055, κἀξ ὀμμάτων στάζουσιν αἷμα δυσφιλές.

57. τὸ φῦλον—πόνων. “ I have not discovered the tribe to which this company belongs; nor what land can aver, that nurturing such a brood with impunity, it is not subsequently brought to mourn its disasters.” πόνων as Prom.

τρέφουσ ̓ ἀνατὶ μὴ μεταστένειν πόνων. Dind. πόνον
τἀντεῦθεν ἤδη τῶνδε δεσπότῃ δόμων
αὐτῷ μελέσθω, Λοξίᾳ μεγασθενεῖ.
ἰατρόμαντις δ' ἐστὶ καὶ τερασκόπος,
καὶ τοῖσιν ἄλλοις δωμάτων καθάρσιος.

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ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ.

οὔτοι προδώσω· διὰ τέλους δέ σοι φύλαξ
ἐγγὺς παρεστώς, καὶ πρόσω γ ̓ ἀποστατῶν,
ἐχθροῖσι τοῖς σοῖς οὐ γενήσομαι πέπων.
καὶ νῦν ἁλούσας τάσδε τὰς μάργους ὁρᾷς mad
ὕπνῳ πεσοῦσαι δ' αἱ κατάπτυστοι κόραι,

V. 405, στένω σε τᾶς οὐλομένας τύχας.
Comp. Eur. Hec. 1256, Jelf, Gr. Gr. §
488, for the construction. Herm. and Pal.
read πόνον, “ to repent of its pains;” but
the sense is much the same.

59. ἀνατί. The following rules respecting Adverbs derived from the Dative Sing. of Nouns may be deduced from Blomfield's Gloss. on Pr. V. 216. 1. When the dative ends in p, q, or Eb, the adverbial termination is el.

Examples : αὐτοβοεὶ from βοῇ (written Boeî before the invention of the letters ท and ω), αὐτοετεὶ from ἔτει, παμπληθεί, &c.

2. When the dative ends in 4, the ad

verbial termination is í. Examples: ἀνατός, ἀνατῷ ἀνατοῖ),

ἀνατί· πανομιλί, &c. All these Adverbs were, in fact, originally Datives, and should be translated with a dative sign; as πανδημί, “with all the people ;” ἀνατὶ, “ with impunity,” &c. The old termination or is retained in some instances, all of them substantives, οἴκοι, πέδοι, ἁρμοῖ, ἔνδοι. (For ἁρμοῖ, dat. from ápuòs, "junctura," is literally "at

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the juncture," when the past time joins
the present-i. e. "just now, lately.")
ἔνδοι comes from an old nom. ἔνδον
"the interior." In the case of adjectives,
the o is invariably dropt, and thus the
termination becomes L.

63. τοῖσιν ἄλλοις.
etiam." Pal.

“ Ergo ἑαυτῷ

64. διὰ τέλους Hesych. διὰ παντός:— penitus, "throughout."

65. καὶ πρόσω γ' Blomf. for καὶ πρόσω δ. Conjunctiones istas (καὶ δὲ) in eodem sententiæ membro haud credo occurrere apud istius ævi scriptores nisi per librariorum errorem." Porson on Eur. Orest. 614. Comp. Blomf. Not. Pr. V. 1018. We might read πρόσωθ ̓ here with Wakefield. See note on v. 287. Paley retains καὶ πρόσω δ'.

68. πεσοῦσαι, nomin. pendens, as νν. 95, 100, 455. It appears to be an instance of that species of Anacoluthon, not uncommon in Thucydides, where the writer begins a sentence with one construction, and then diverges into parenthetical clauses; so that he forgets or finds it inconvenient to return.

αν αεί

faint too soon

Νυκτὸς παλαιαὶ παῖδες, αἷς οὐ μίγνυται
θεῶν τις, οὐδ ̓ ἄνθρωπος, οὐδὲ θήρ ποτε
κακῶν δ ̓ ἕκατι κἀγένοντ ̓ ἐπεὶ κακὸν
σκότον νέμονται, Τάρταρόν θ' ὑπὸ χθονὸς,
μισήματ ̓ ἀνδρῶν καὶ θεῶν Ὀλυμπίων.
ὅμως δὲ φεῦγε, μηδὲ μαλθακὸς γένῃ cowardly
ἐλῶσι γάρ σε καὶ δι ̓ ἠπείρου μακρᾶς,

Dind. βεβῶτ ̓ ἀν' ἀεὶ [βιβῶντ ̓ ἂν ἀεὶ τὴν πλανοστιβῆ χθόνα,]
ὑπέρ τε πόντον, καὶ περιῤῥύτας πόλεις.
καὶ μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος
πόνον μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδος ποτὶ πτόλιν,
ΐζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτας
κἀκεῖ δικαστὰς τῶνδε καὶ θελκτηρίους paliating
μύθους ἔχοντες, μηχανὰς εὑρήσομεν,
ὥστ ̓ ἐς τὸ πᾶν σε τῶνδ ̓ ἀπαλλάξαι πόνων
καὶ γὰρ κτανεῖν σ ̓ ἔπεισα μητρῷον δέμας.

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76. βιβῶντ' ἂν ἀεί. This is the MSS. reading (except βιβῶντ' for βεβῶντ), and I certainly think it better than Hermann's βιβῶντ ̓ ἀν' ἀεὶ τὴν πλ., making ȧvà a preposition, separated from its case: or than Paley's ἀνατὶ, which is tame and unnatural. "Av with the present partic. gives the sense of “ ready, likely to." Here ἐλῶσί σε βι βῶντ ̓ ἂν βιβαίης ἂν, εἴ σ ̓ ἐλαύνοιεν. Comp. Soph. Ed. Col. 761, ὦ πάντα τολμῶν κἀπὸ παντὸς ἂν φέρων Λόγου

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δικαίου μηχάνημα ποικίλον. Here av φέρων ὃς φέροις ἂν, “ who are likely to take." See for other examples Matth. Gr. Gr. § 598 b.

77. πόλεις— islands: for the sea is to an island what its walls are to a city. Ion, 1583, Κυκλάδας νησαίας πόλεις.

78. βουκολούμενος, literally "grazing on,” as αιπολούμεναι, ν. 187: hence "brooding over." See Peile on Agam. 650, ἐβουκολοῦμεν φροντίσιν νέον πάθος: and comp. Theoc. Id. xi. 80. In these passages the notion of “ soothing” is prominent. So Shakesp. As you like it, iv. 3, "Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy."

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79. ποτὶ πτόλιν, a Homeric form.

84. ἔπεισα. The stress falls on this word, as Linwood rightly observes, otherwise we should expect ey. Trans

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ.

ἄναξ Απολλον, οἶσθα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν
ἐπεὶ δ ̓ ἐπίστα, καὶ τὸ μὴ 'μελεῖν μάθε.
τα αλλα σθένος δὲ ποιεῖν εἰ φερέγγυον τὸ σόν.
ΑΠ. μέμνησο, μὴ φόβος σε νικάτω φρένας.

σὺ δ', αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρὸς,
Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε, κάρτα δ' ὢν ἐπώνυμος
πομπαῖος ἴσθι, τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν
ἱκέτην. σέβει τοι Ζεὺς τόδ' ἐκνόμων σέβας,
ὁρμώμενον βροτοῖσιν εὐπόμπῳ τύχῃ.

او

ΚΛΥΤΑΙΜΝΗΣΤΡΑΣ ΕΙΔΩΛΟΝ.

εὕδοιτ ̓ ἂν, ὠὴ, καὶ καθευδουσῶν τί δεῖ;
ἐγὼ δ' ὑφ ̓ ὑμῶν ὧδ ̓ ἀπητιμασμένη
ἄλλοισιν ἐν νεκροῖσιν, ὡς μὲν ἔκτανον

late, “Non per te ipsum, sed alio (me)
suadente interfecisti matrem."

85, 86. The sense of these lines is, 66 Since you know what justice is, exercise it in my case without any neglect or remissness: for your power is competent to serve me.”—Join ποιεῖν εὖ.

90. ἐπώνυμος, “ true to your name,” opposite to ψευδώνυμος. Sept. c. Th. 8, Ζεὺς ἀλεξητήριος Επώνυμος γένοιτο. Choeph.288, μήτηρ οὐδαμῶς ἐπώνυμον φρόνημα πεταμένη, “ whose temper is inconsistent with the name of Mother."

92. ἐκνόμων, Herm., for the MSS. ἐκ νόμων. He says ἐκνόμων = παρανόμων, and therefore = ἱκετῶν (comp. προστρό παιος): "Zeus hath respect to the sanctity of the outlaw, sped on to mortals by the escort of fair fortune." But I doubt whether we should not read ἔννομον : it is more natural to refer

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σέβας to the Protector Hermes, than to
the protected ἱκέται, as the next line,
93, clearly points to Hermes' office:
"Zeus respects this lawful privilege of
thine, proceeding to mortals with the
blessing of good speed.”

95. ἐγὼ—ἀπητιμασμένη. This is not
exactly a nomin. pendens. For the
words ὡς μὲν ἔκτανον to ἐκλείπεται are
partly parenthetical; and the apod.
αἰσχρῶς ἀλῶμαι applies equally to both
the other two clauses of the sentence.
Translate, “In this wise am. I utterly
neglected by you; whilst amongst the
rest of the Departed that I was a
murderess is a reproach that forsakes
me not even in the grave-for in dis-
grace do I wander.” The word de
serves to connect the parenth. with the
main sentence.

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100. παθοῦσα—μηνίεται. This Anacoluthon was probably occasioned by the fact, that there was no single verb which Eschylus could make agree with ἐγὼ παθοῦσα expressing, "I am not avenged by the wrath of any Deity;" he was therefore obliged to change the construction.

103. The common way of reading this line is, ὅρα δὲ πληγὰς τάσδε καρδίας σέθεν. "Be conscious of these reproaches with which I sting your heart.” But πληγὰς καρδίας will scarcely bear this sense. It is better to suppose that Clytemnestra points to her own still gaping wounds. I have adopted Pauw's reading, ὁρᾷκαρδία σέθεν, which harmonizes better with the following verses, "Your hearts, I know, see these wounds of mine, FoR in sleep the mind's eye brightens; in daylight 'tis not the province of mor

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tals to foresee."-Vv. 104, 105, convey
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