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λοίσθιον δὲ, Ταινάρου διὰ στόμα Βέβηκ ̓ ἐς Αΐδου. Τλῆναι πόνους (or μόχθους) is an expression of very frequent occurrence. There is a passage in this play, which might be adduced in defence of the common reading of the passage before us. V. 830. ̓Επεὶ δὲ μό χθους διεπέρασ ̓ Εὐρυσθέως, "Ηρα προσάψαι καινὸν αἷμ ̓ αὐτῷ θέλει, Παι δας κατακτείναντι. Here, however, Mr. Hermann reads κοινὸν αἷμ' with Mr. Wakefield.

V. 1314. Οὐδεὶς δὲ θνητῶν ταῖς τύχαις ἀκήρατος, Οὐ θεῶν, ἀοιδῶν εἴπερ οὐ ψευδεῖς λόγοι. Εἴπερ οὐ appears to us to be a solecism. Soph. (Ed. C. 626. Κοὔποτ ̓ Οἰδίπουν ἐρεῖς ̓Αχρεῖον οἰκητῆρα δέξασθαι τόπων Τῶν ἐνθάδ', εἴπερ μὴ θεοὶ ψεύσουσί με. Read therefore, εἴπες ἀψευδεῖς λόγοι. A similar variety occurs in the Prometheus of Æschylus v. 185. where the edition of Turnebus and several MSS. read οὐ παραμυθον instead of ἀπαράμυθον. Dr. Butler justly observes, that there is no such adjective as παράμυθος.

V. 1406. HP. Θησεῦ, πάλιν με στρέψον, ὡς ἴδω τέκνα. ΘΗ. Ως δή τι φίλτρον τοῦτ ̓ ἔχων, ῥᾴων ἔσῃ. So the common copies. Mr. Hermann silently reads after Musgrave, Ως δὴ τί φίλτρον τοῦτ ̓ ἔχων, ῥᾴων ἔσει ; We read, Ως δὴ τὸ φίλτρον τοῦτ ̓ ἔχων ῥᾴων ἔσει. As if you would be the better for this gratification. This is a common meaning of the particles ὡς δή. So Androm. 233. Τ σεμνομυθεῖς, κεἰς ἀγῶν ̓ ἔρχει λόγων, Ως δὴ σὺ σώφρων, τἀμὰ δ ̓ οὐχὶ σώφρονα. We may also read, “Ως δὴ σὺ φίλτρον κ. τ. λ.

ν. 1410. Οὕτω πόνων σῶν οὐκέτι μνήμην ἔχεις; Legebatur οὕτως. HERMANN. Perhaps the true reading is οὗτος, heus tu. So Alc. 776. Οὗτος, τί σεμνὸν καὶ πεφροντικὸς βλέπεις; Med. 922. Αὕτη, τί χλωροῖς δακρύοις τέγγεις κέρας; Aristophanes Eq. 821. ότι ή σε φιλώ, παῦ παι οὗτος, καὶ μὴ σκέβαλλε πονηρά." Οὗτος is rather an impolite mode of address, and therefore is frequently used when the speaker means to say something uncivil. În the verse before us, Theseus tells Hercules that his present dejection is a contrast to the fortitude with which he underwent his labors. The passage seems not to have been understood by Portus and Barnes, who translate, Itane malorum tuorum non amplius memor es? Πόνων means laborum, not malorum.

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: Instead of παῦ παῦ ̇ οὗτος, the MSS. and old editions read παῦ' οὑτοσί. Brunck reads παῦσαι γ' οὗτος. Παῦ πανε was formed from πανε πανε by the same rapidity of pronunciation, which converted τύχῃ ἀγαθῇ into τυχαγαθή. Photius: Παῦ, τὸ καῦσαι λέγουσι μονοσυλλάβως. In the same manner, παῖε πατε seems to have been contracted into παῖ παῖε. Aristoph. Pac. 1119. Παῖ παῖε, παῖε τὸν Βάκιν μαρτύρομαι. The first syllable of this verse, which is wanting in the common copies, was intended by Dawes, who first introduced it, for the vocative of παῖς. Bruck translates, Percute, percute, percute istum Bacin. The Ravenna MS. reads, Ω παίε, παῖς τὸν Βάκιν. This is perhaps a conjectural emendation. With regard to παῦ, παύε, Græcarum elegantiarum saporem medullitus percipienti salivam sat scie movebit emendatio nostra facillima pariter et speciosa: qua nihil verius e tripode. It is unnecessary to name the author of these words.

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