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The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.

NOTES ON ORESTES

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Euripides and Buckley, Theodore Alois
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[34] Or, "I will not be at all behind thy slaughter."
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[35]ευ in this passage interrogat oblique, see Hoogeveen, xvi. § 1. 15.
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[36] Strophius, the father of Pylades, married Anaxibia, Agamemnon's sister.
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[37]ονειδη, των ευεργεσιων τας ‛υπομνησεις. SCHOL. Ter. And. i. 1. "isthæc commemoratio quasi exprobratio est immemoris benefici."
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[38] i.e. being a barbarian, and therefore not knowing whither to go.
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[39]‛αρματειον, such a strain as that raised over Hector, ‛ελκομενω, δια του ‛αρματος. See two other explanations in the Scholia.
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[40]‛ιπποσυνα, ‛ητις ‛υπηρχες ‛ιππηλασια του Γ. BRUNCK.
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[41] Literally, her Mycenian slipper.
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[41a] Read θανειν with Pors. Dind.

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The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I., Project Gutenberg eBook #15081

NOTES ON ORESTES ADDITIONAL NOTES.