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See the Andromache, vs. 986. .

Every thing Is full of sorrow, save to rule the gods.

I have preferred Blomfield's to.

, says Hesychius. The ferule was hollow, and capable of containing fire.

Bishop Blomfield considers the word shoonless as being expressive of extreme haste; and he quotes several passages from ancient writers as illustrative of this view. With regard to his quotation from Bion's elegy—

it might be observed, with submission, that the word appears to indicate the negligence of sorrow rather than of haste.