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The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.

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Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Euripides and Buckley, Theodore Alois
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[A] Vs. 246, ενθανειν γε. "Pravam esse scripturam dici Brunckius et Corayus viderunt; quorum ille legere voluit ‛ωστ' εντακηναι, hic vero ‛ωστ' εμβαλειν. Sed neuter rem acu tetigit. Euripides scripsit: ‛ωστ' εν γε φυναι, uti patet ex Hom. Il. Ζ. 253, εν τ' αρα ‛οι φυ χειρι, Od. Π. 21, παντα κυσεν περιφυς, Theocrit. Id. xiii. 47, ται δ' εν χερι πασαι εφυσαν, et, quod rem conficit, ex Euripidis ipsius Ion. 891, λευκοις δ' εμφυσας καρποις χειρων." G. BURGES, apud Revue de Philologie, vol. i. No. 5. p. 457.
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[B] We must, I think, read τολμαιν.
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[C] Dindorf disposes these lines differently, but I prefer Porson's arrangement, as follows:
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ΕΚ. εκβλητον, η πες. φ. δορος;
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ΘΕΡ. εν ψαμαθωι λευραι
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ποντου νιν, κ.τ.λ.

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