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Here must agree with —rather harsh; and  expresses, that this is a new misery superadded—an after-clap. I have changed the singulars,, , into plurals.

781. is clearly absurd,  a highly probable correction.

728. [sic] It is incredible that the poet should have written, as in the old text; and to alter into  makes a very weak tautology. I feel some conviction that the poet wrote, fierce nurses, which he then expounds to be the.

826. I think the true text must be—

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in fact, demands  preceding.

998. . is interpreted of Jocasta; but could a pious daughter abruptly call her mother a pest? To me it seems that the death of the two brethren was a woe sleeping in the grave by the side of the father.

1041. is obviously corrupt. I suggest—

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"Hitherto his fortunes have not been dishonoured by the gods." The reply is: "No; not before he attacked this country"—which quite agrees.

Author:Francis William Newman