Tragedies of Euripides - 2 Author:Euripides Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1858 Original Publisher: Henry G. Bohn 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 wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ADDITIONAL NOTES. A. Vs. 246, IvOavtiv ye. " Pravam esse scripturam dici Brunckius et Corayus viderunt; quorum ille legere voluit iaar ivraKrjvat, hie vero war' iftpattv. Sed neuter rem acu tetigit. Euripides scripsit: iaar lv yt tpvvat, uti patet ex Hom. II. Z. 253, lv T apa 01 ipv ftpl, Od. n. 21, iravra. Kvatv irtpnpvf, Theocrit. Id. xiii. 47, ral S' lv xtpi iraaat upvaav, et, quod rem conflcit, ex Euripidis ipsius Ion. 891, tvKolf S' lptpvaaf Kapirols upiav." G. Burges, apud Bevue de Philologie, vol. i. No. 5. p. 457. B. We must, I think, read ToXpv. C. Dindorf disposes these lines differently, but I prefer Person's arrangement, as follows: EK. IK/JXi/rov, ft irea. 0. Sopof; OEP. iv v''a/ta.0i/i tvpf Itovtov viv, K. r, . OEESTES, PERSONS REPRESENTED. ELECTRA. HELEN. HEKUIONE. 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 Cly temnestra; 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 Menelaus, 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 ...« less