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Rh 341. In I suspect that, "my criminals," is hidden. We need such a phrase to make clear. The rare word (Homeric ) would easily be mistaken.

343. is metrically refuted, but Dindorf's innovations (here and in the strophic line also) are extreme. We must drop out ; thereupon we find a trochaic word needful before. The lost word may have been, interpreted by.

348. seems to be active, and  to have been lost after it: "my limbs, which trip up even swift runners."

352., if opposed to , should be.

363. is against the metre. Drop it entirely, and the theory of a hiatus in the antistrophe drops with it.

448. A corrupt and doubtful word is. Musgrave's gives good sense. , I believe, ought to be.

456. cannot be right. Better (Dind. 3rd. ed. v. 488.)

457 is a very doubtful line. Perhaps

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481., "a diminution," gives a wrong sense: , "allotment and augmentation," is what we expect; yet would not have been corrupted into. Is it not possible that is is the first allotment of tax, and  means "after-payment," a second rate, when the first has proved insufficient?

492–4. Vulg. is impossible. I suggest. Also, "within,""in the heart," for , which is nonsense.

497. is clearly wrong. The obviously right sense is given, with right metre, by. [ is not Greek.]