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134 270. Hermann has arbitrarily changed (assuagements) into its opposite,, but  is the faulty word. The smallest available change is to place a comma after (other mortals), and write  Here  means, with a future idea as presently in.

361. The sense seems manifestly to require

368. For, Dindorf has , but the sense requires.

370. For, which is unintelligible, I believe the poet wrote in continuation, Even so it is quite unexplained what is the "double scourge." Orestes complains of Penury, Electra of Dishonor. These may well be the double misery which (says the Chorus) thou art unable [to avert]. To me a whole line seems lost, such as:

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Thus has an infinitive  to complete it, "To wish for lofty success is useless, when you cannot [even repel Penury and Insult]." The crack of this double scourge reaches now your champion in the underworld."

374. is hopeless nonsense. has nothing to compare. , "it has become," has neither Predicate nor Subject. Neither word is hero endurable. I find nothing more probable than to write for, with:  |. "But for (or by) the children a limit of hateful contests has been hard-earned." The unusual position of in the fourth place may have led to punctuating after. On this would follow a general corruption.