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Rh feeding-places and streams, or even from her crofts and streams. In Pindar we find : in Eur. Iph. T. 134,. (Hermann's is audacity out of place.)

70. If be right, we have to join  with   in the sense of "I lament whether," which is certainly unnatural. Dindorf prints, I suppose merely to show what the metre requires.

78. For the old reading, which is certainly wrong, an obvious correction is , which would be unexceptionable if we found it in the text. But other possibilities occur: thus the poet may have written in imitation of the word.

80. ! This is nonsense. To change to  has no plausibility; all remains abrupt;  followed by  is scarcely possible. My present belief is that we get the poet's sense by  which means, "In the straight line of Jove, though drawn with perfect accuracy, the heart's desire of Jove is not easy to trace." Then the abruptness vanishes and the argument is solid. Moreover, in the next line seems to introduce a general maxim. This suggests to me that, which is weak, ought to be.

93. (the old text) is manifestly indefensible. Critics do not seem to have observed that in place of it we need the accusative after. Then we must put a full-stop after, and the sense needed will be given by |  |

104. The little word offends me, and suggests that  should possibly be. Is the spondee in the third foot satisfactory?

107. Remove the stop and join with.

115, 116. | . This is mere chaos. The general sense needed is, that