Part 91 (1/2)

[85] This line is hopelessly corrupt.

[86] I read e? ??? with the Cambridge editor.

[87] a???a is in opposition to the whole preceding clause.

[88] See the note of the Cambridge editor on Iph. Aul. 1372.

[89] I should prefer est? d?,”_she surely is._”

[90] We must evidently read either d?????? with Porson, or d?e??e with Jan., Le Fevre, and Markland.

[91] I almost agree with Dindorf in considering this line spurious.

[92] For this construction compare Ritterhus. ad Oppian, Cyn. i. 11.

[93] I can not help thinking this line is spurious, and the preceding ??ta?

corrupt. One would expect ??s??.

[94] Cf. Kuinoel on Cydon. de Mort. Contem. -- 1, p. 6, n. 18.

[95] Literally, ”no longer a hinderance,” i.e. ”that I be no longer responsible for its fulfillment.”

[96] The Cambridge editor, however, seems to have settled the question in favor of ??s?' ???? ?? d?as??.

[97] I must candidly confess that none of the explanations of these words satisfy me. Perhaps it is best to regard them, with Seidler, as merely signifying the mutability of fortune.

[98] i.e. as far as the fulfilling of my oath is concerned.

[99] The letter evidently commences with the words ?? '? ????d? sfa?e?sa. I can not imagine how Markland and others should have made it commence with the previous line.

[100] i.e. in what company.

[101] This line is either spurious or out of place. See the Cambridge editor.

[102] The Cambridge editor in a note exhibiting his usual chastened and elegant judgment, regards these three lines as an absurd and trifling interpolation. For the credit of Euripides, I would fain do the same.

[103] The same elegant scholar justly a.s.signs these lines to Iphigenia.

[104] So Erfurdt.

[105] See the Cambridge editor.

[106] This line seems justly condemned by the Cambridge editor.

[107] With ?apte?? understand d???? = thou art fast arriving at the goal of the truth.

[108] Read apede?? with ed. Camb.

[109] ”I remember it: for the wedding did not, by its happy result, take away the recollection of that commencement of nuptial ceremonies.” CAMB.

ED.