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454 "incestuous marriages involve the gods in guilt:" must be the predicate. I propose to change to, which gives the sense excellently. On comparing the strophe, it seems likely that v. 116 contains epithets of, as v. 105 of. To read for v. 116, would be very close to the letters; but I think , "laden with death," more likely, and it is but for. I render invasive.

118, 119. Punctuate with comma after, and with full-stop after , and interpret, "The distresses are indefinable, into what the wave is to carry us;" that is, "It is doubtful, into what "

127. I do not think that can mean a house of timber, as Scholefield seems to join it, but  perhaps ought to be  hides.

203–206, of Scholefield, but 207–10, of the Oxford pocket edition, seem to be out of order. The first two lines should change places, and the fourth should be first.

244. is difficult to justify and difficult to condemn; but I think  to be a fair and satisfactory correction of.

309. It seems impossible that can be correct. I suggest, strokings, caresses, equivalent to. The next line, which is lost, may have been (or ).

394., for unlucky, evil, is not plausible, may suggest itself; but there are too many other possibilities. I conjecture.

485. For the unmeaning I suggest, equivalent to.

488. all regard as wrongly repeated from the preceding line. One may suggest, or. Paley's is also good.