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The Tragedies of Euripides, Literally Tr. or Revised With Critical and Explanatory Notes, by T.a. Buckley
The Tragedies of Euripides Literally Tr or Revised With Critical and Explanatory Notes by Ta Buckley Author:Euripides General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ADDITIONAL NOTES. A. Vs. 246, evBavelv ye. "Pravam esse scripturam dici Branckius et Corayus viderunt; quorum ille legere voluit uar' evraKijvai, hie vero uar' I/ijiafaiv. Sed neuter rem acu tetigit. Euripides scripsit: uar' h1 ye i/njvai, uti patet ex Hom. H. Z. 253, fa R' upa ol ijru xeip'li Od. II. 21, irdvra Kvaev irepi(fvf, Theocrit. Id. xiii. 47, ral i' bl xepl irdaai IQvaav, et, quod . rem conficit, ex Euripidis ipsius Ion. 891, . evKoif i' t/ufniaaf Kapirolf xeip"v." G. Bcbges, apud Revue de Philologie, vol. i. No. 5. p. 457. B. We must, I think, read ropqsv. C. Dindorf disposes these lines differently, but I prefer Person's arrangement, as follows: EK. lKfirirov, rj irsa. 6EP. ev ipapdBu Itovrov viv, K. R. A. ORESTES. PERSONS REPRESENTED. ELECTRA. HELEN. HERMIONE. CHORUS. ORESTES. MENELAUS. TYNDARUS. PYLADES. A PHRYGIAN. APOLLO. chapter{Section 4 THE ARGUMENT. Orestes, in revenge for the murder of his father, took off Egisthus and Clyaetmnestra; but having dared to slay his mother, he was instantly punished for it by being afflicted with madness. But on Tyndarus, the father of her who was slain, laying an accusation against him, the Argives were about to give a public decision on this question," What ought he, who has dared this impious deed, to suffer ?" By chance Men- elaus, having returned from his wanderings, sent in Helen indeed by night, but himself came by day, and being entreated by Orestes to aid him, he rather feared Tyndarus the accuser: but when the speeches came to be spoken among the populace, the multitude were stirred up to kill Orestes. But Pylades, his...« less