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7. For  I think should be read, extruded.

8. is the old text. The sense seems to require an epithet meaning voluntary, in contrast to legal expulsion. Perhaps the word (Ionic for ) has been dropped out, from its similarity to. Then we obtain, with perfect sense and emphasis—

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In 27, 38, 40, it is difficult for me to believe that so careful a poet as Æschylus would write ; which make the syntax as loose as that of Thucydides. I believe in (in apposition to ),  (plural, as )  (in apposition to ).

45. has no satisfactory syntax; in 43 the old text was. Porson changed it to, which is not plausible to me.

52. The old text, should, I think, be , which completes the splendid conjectural corrections of Hermann and others, who change to. This one example may justly incite us in nonsensical passages to conjecture boldly.

62. is certainly wrong. A very simple correction will be, from her