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286. The abrupt ; cannot be right. I make no doubt that the poet's syntax was continuous; whether, or,  , as in Soph. Antig., or again, , the roof.

338. |, should be responded to by  |. First, I make little doubt that should be  (approaches) which answers all the conditions of the case. Next, the Cretic convicts the Molossus  as false. is wrong both in metre and in sense. must be the net-rope, by which victors swept the streets and squares, and caught runaways. It seems to be alluded to in Iliad, v. 487, where it has the epithet, which in the tragic poets may be , or here, perhaps,.

In 356–364 Hermann has rightly discerned, that the does not mean death, but violation of the person; that  means apprehension, fear, and that  has been inserted by some one who did not understand the word  aright. For Hermann has : but it seems to me that we rather need (writing, "any random man," for )—