Part 20 (1/2)

[27] ?a???pa??, _lovely_, not lovely in her children: so in Phn. 1634.

e?te???? ???????.

[28] Argos, so called from the Cyclopes, a nation of Thrace, who, being called in as allies, afterward settled here.

[29] ?ete???? may perhaps seem to make the construction plainer than ?ete???; but Porson has received the latter into his text on account of the metre.

[30] Myrtilus was the son of Mercury, who therefore sowed this dissension between the two brothers in revenge for his death by Pelops. See note at line 802.

[31] Some would understand by ???p???? not that Aurora was borne on one horse, but that this alteration in the course of nature took place for one day. SCHOL.

[32] ?a? ap? t??de, ?t?? eta ta?ta. PARAPH.

[33] pa?ase???? is used to signify a loose horse tied abreast of another in the shaft, and is technically termed ”the outrigger.” The metaphorical application of it to Pylades, who voluntarily attached himself to the misfortunes of his friend, is extremely beautiful.

[34] Or, _”I will not be at all behind thy slaughter.”_

[35] e? in this pa.s.sage _interrogat oblique_, see Hoogeveen, xvi. -- 1. 15.

[36] Strophius, the father of Pylades, married Anaxibia, Agamemnon's sister.

[37] ??e?d?, t?? e?e??es??? ta? ??p???se??. SCHOL. Ter. And. i. 1. ”isthaec commemoratio quasi exprobratio est immemoris benefici.”

[38] i.e. being a barbarian, and therefore not knowing whither to go.

[39] ?a?ate???, such a strain as that raised over Hector, ?e???e??, d?a t?? ?a?at??. See two other explanations in the Scholia.

[40] ??pp?s??a, ??t?? ??p???e? ??pp??as?a t?? G. BRUNCK.

[41] Literally, _her Mycenian slipper_.

[41a] Read ?a?e?? with Pors. Dind.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

[A] But Dindorf reads ?t?p?? ? ??a?et'. ????; interrogatively, thus: ”Ye were making a noise. Will ye not ... enable him,” etc.?

[B] Dindorf would continue this verse to Orestes.

[C] Dindorf supposes something to be wanting after vs. 314.

[D] The use of a???? ?ete??? is learnedly ill.u.s.trated by Dindorf.

[E] Elmsley, on Heracl. 852, more simply regards the datives s?? s?? t'

ade?f? as dependent upon ep?se?s?, understanding ??ste d???a? d????. This is better than to suppose (with Porson) that d???a? d???? can mean to _inflict_ punishment.

[F] Dindorf (in his notes) agrees with Porson in omitting the following verse.