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 Remarks on some of the Greek Tragic Fragments. 231 by song. This however does not come out from the words as they stand, where Xo'y&>, even if connected with x av v rather than with olda, would yield no sense. If we read evfteiv for ovbev, the meaning will appear at once, ' I know that gaping wounds are lulled by song.' Comp. Phil. 650, Koipa t6$ cXkos. evdov would be rather more idiomatic, but would create a confusion with x^vov. Soph. Polyxena. fr. 3 (491). auras anaicovas re na peXapfiaOels Xirrovaa Xipvqs rfkdov apcrevas X^ s 'Ax^povros ofcvnXfjyas ijx v(rr)$ yoovs. This arrangement, which is Jacobs's, agrees better both with the sense and with the order of the words in the MSS., than Grotius and Heyne's, where apa-evas x oa s takes the place of tjxovo-tjs yoovs, and vice versa. The meaning is clear without any altera- tion, being in fact explained by Virgil's ' tenebrosa palus Ache- ronte refuso.' x " 5 1S the water of the lake formed by the over- flow of Acheron, apa-evas probably expressing not infecundity, as explained by Porphyry, ap. Stob., but violence, like ktvttos apa-rjv ttovtov, Phil. 1455, compared by Ellendt and Schneidewin. t)x ov(TT ) s seems better than TJx ov though the latter is nearer the qx ov<ra or ex ov<Tas f the MSS.: possibly also peXapfiaOovs would be an improvement on peXapPaOels. The lake is said to resound the wails of Acheron, which keeps pouring into it, much as Virgil (Georg. ii. 163) describes the Portus Julius as echoing with the sea that breaks against its embankment. Soph. 'PcCoropoi. fr. 4 (502). "HXie fteawora ko irvp lepov, rrjs elvodias '~E.Ka.rqs eyxos, ra 81 ^OXvpjrov ttoXKt) (peperai v vepoov irXovrov 7tot av velpeiev af-lav X^P lv '