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text of this play, especially in the Choral Odes, is manifestly very corrupt, and the corruption may have been a thousand years earlier than any MS. of it which came down to the age of printing. The Greek Commentator, whom we call the Scholiast, is often puerile, and absurdly satisfied with a very erroneous text. Thereby we are driven to conjectural improvement, if we are to attain a text worthy of the poet. Some of the following suggestions, I believe, seemed to my friend Miss Anna Swanwick to deserve her acceptance.

v. 56. Read, omitting.

64. Here retain, probably with for.

65. For, I wish.

67. all reject,  meets general approval; but we seem to need  before metre and sense are satisfied.

71, 72, we require for ; and in 73,  for.

150. must be wrong;  (reverential), though not in our dictionaries, may be right. This piece is Antistrophic, but the Antistrophe abounds in small errors. I propose: 152, for to read ; in 154,  for vulg. .