[268] _P.V._ 170. [269] _Septem_, 493-4. [270] _Choeph._ 451-2. [271] _Eum._ 137-8. [272] _Frogs_, 1261-95. [273] _Suppl._ 836-7. I see no reason for supposing that the Greek is defective. [274] _Ibid._ 12. [275] _Ibid._ 608. [276] _Persæ_, 115. [277] _Ibid._ 346. [278] _Persæ_ 395. [279] _Ibid._ 815. [280] _Septem_, 593. [281] _P.V._ 89-90. [282] _Ibid._ 993. [283] _Ag._ 1434. [284] _Choeph._ 647. [285] _Eum._ 694. [286] Haigh, _Tragic Drama_, pp. 82 _sq._ [287] _Frogs_, 932. [288] Professor Gilbert Murray, _Literature of Ancient Greece_, p. 217. [289] vv. 908 _sqq._ [290] Frogs, 1119 _sqq._ [291] Dr. Verrall’s theory is still, I believe, accepted only by a minority. [292] _P.V._ vv. 350-2. [293] _Danaides._ [294] Cp. _Septem_, 592-4 (Aristides), _P.V._ 1068 (Themistocles), and the references to the Areopagus (vv. 681-710) and to the Athenian Empire (vv. 398-401) in the _Eumenides_. [295] _Choeph._ 313 _sq._: δράσαντι παθεῖν, τριγέρων μῦθος τάδε φωνεῖ. [296] _Ag._ 750-7. [297] _Septem_, 689-91. [298] _Choeph._ 1076. [299] Æschylus never worked himself entirely free from this savage conception of sin as a material defilement. Orestes, among the proofs that he has expiated his offence, mentions the use of swine’s blood as a cleansing power (_Eum._ v. 283). [300] See Dr. Verrall’s discussion of the prologue to the _Eumenides_, _Euripides the Rationalist_, pp. 220-4. [301] _Eum._ vv. 640-51. [302] _Arrangement_: protagonist, Ajax, Teucer (Ajax, when dead, is represented by a lay figure); deuteragonist, Odysseus, Tecmessa; tritagonist, Athena, messenger, Menelaus, Agamemnon. [303] For the arguments see Jebb’s _Introduction_ (pp. li-liv) to the _Ajax_. He thinks _Antigone_ the earlier. [304] vv. 520-1: “Nay, have thought even of me. A man should sure be mindful of any joy that hath been his.” But of course the quality spoken of evaporates in such a “translation”. [305] In the address to his child he throws a half-line to the mother (v. 559) and at the beginning of his disguised farewell to the chorus he expresses pity for Tecmessa (vv. 650-3), but there is nothing to show that this is not feigned, like his implied renunciation of suicide. [306] See Jebb’s _Introduction_ to the play (pp. xxviii-xxxii). [307] The _arrangement_ is uncertain. Jebb gives, protagonist: Antigone, Tiresias, Eurydice; deuteragonist: Ismene, guard, Hæmon, the messengers; tritagonist: Creon. Croiset gives, protagonist: Antigone, Hæmon; deuteragonist: Ismene, guard, Tiresias, messengers; tritagonist: Creon, Eurydice. [308] vv. 904-12. See Jebb’s discussion in his _Appendix_. [309] vv. 450-70. [310] _Rhetoric_, III, xvi. 9. [311] Jebb’s _Introduction_, pp. xvii-xx. [312] See pp. 8, 15. [313] _Arrangement_ probably: protagonist, Electra; deuteragonist, Orestes and Clytæmnestra; tritagonist, Pædagogus, Chrysothemis, Ægisthus. [314] Jebb, however, gives substantial reasons for putting it later. See his _Introduction_, pp. lvi-lviii.