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 230 Journal of Philology. known when no one before had done so.' In either case olpdvtd re o-foaTa are rather out of place ; we may suppose, however, either that Sophocles chose to refer generally to discoveries which he afterwards unfolds more at large, or that some other epithet originally stood with o^ara, which in this connexion would naturally mean the watchwords of the army. Probably the corruption, if any there be, as well as the transposition, was made before the time of Achilles Tatius, who quotes the whole passage with reference to the stars, seemingly supposing vv. 4 6 to mean, that Palamedes first found out the number of the heavenly bodies, as in Virg. Georg. I. 137, 'Navita turn stellis numeros et nomina fecit,' whereas it is plain that he is meant to have been the discoverer of number generally, as in the fragment quoted by Stobaeus, Phys. I. 1, and attributed by Matthiae to the Palamedes of Euripides. These suggestions, as against the view taken by others of the order of the verses, are strongly confirmed by Plato, Rep. vn. 522. d, who evidently refers to this very pas- sage, though with the exception of Bullialdus (censured by Stall- baum, 1. c.) no critic appears to have perceived the allusion, r; ovk tvvevoTjKas on (prjaw [ilaXa/xj/Sr/j] dpi6p.6v tvpav ras re ra^eis ra) OTparo7r'8ft> Karao-TTjcrai tu 'lXia> Kai ({-apidfiTJaai vavs re Kai ruXXa Trdvra r <os irporov auapiOpijroov ovtojv Kai tov yapepvovos, <os coiKtv, ov$ oaovs irodas (ix fV tlSoTos, ("nep apidpetp p.fj rjirio-TciTo ; There is indeed nothing here to shew that Plato did not find the passage in the order in which it stands in Tatius, himself choosing to connect the insertion of number with the arrangement of the army: but it would be difficult to believe that Sophocles intended KaKelu in a connexion like this, to refer to any other word than fvp^/xara. In v. 2 it matters little whether we correct o-Tadp.T) 5' into o-radprjv r with Grotius, or into crra6p.vv with Heath. V. 9 is rightly understood by Keil and Wagner, of the use of the stars to sentinels (comp. Eur. Iph. A. init, Rhes. 527, sqq.), though neither the former's xmvov (pvai.v (a6a o, nor the latter's vnvov  The line is quoted by Suidas, v. fyqwlp Sar, to illustrate Aj. 582, so that the reference is plainly to the healing of wounds