[21] Locus videtur corruptus. PORSON. Valckenaer proposes to read δακρυοεσσ' ανιεισα κ.τ.λ. Markland would supply φωνην after ‛ιεισα. Another reading proposed is, δακρυοεσσ' ενιεισα πενθηρη κονιν. _Lacrymabunda, lugubrem cinerem injiciens_. Followed by Dindorf. [22] Cf. Æsch. Prom. 39. το συγγενες τοι δεινον ‛η θ' ‛ομιλια, where consult Schutz. [23] See Porson's note. A similar ellipse is to be found in Luke xiii. 9. Καιν μεν ποιησηι καρπον: ει δε μηγε, εις το μελλον εκκοψεις αυτην: which is thus translated in our version; "And if it bear fruit, _well_: and if not, _then_ after that thou shalt cut it down." See also Iliad, A. 135. Aristoph. Plut. 468. ed. Kuster. [24] Βραβευς, properly, is the judge in a contest, who confers the prizes, and on whose decision the awarding of the prizes depends: βραβευτης is the same. Βραβειον is the prize. Βραβεια, and in the plural βραβειαι, the very act of deciding the contest. [25] So Hotspur, of honor: By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon: Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities. Hen. IV. P. i. A. i. Sc. 3. [26] See Ovid. Met. vi. 28. Non omnia grandior ætas, Quæ fugiamus, habet; seris venit usus ab annis. [27] The Scholiast doubts whether these Gods were Castor and Pollux, or Zethus and Amphion, but inclines to the latter. See Herc. Fur. v. 29, 30. [28] Or, _fell with limbs that had never known yoke_.--V. Ovid: Met. iii. 10. Bos tibi, Phœbus ait, solis occurret in arvis, Nullum passa jugum. [29] Valckenaer proposes reading instead of ‛οραις or ‛ορας, αυραις, writing the passage αυραις βοστρυχον αμπετασας, "per auras leves crine jactato:" which seems peculiarly adapted to this place, where the poet places the tumultuous rage of Mars in contrast with the sweet enthusiasm of the Bacchanalians, who are represented as flying over the plains with their hair streaming in the wind. But see Note [C]. [30] ακοη is here to be understood in the sense of ακουομενον as we find αισθησις for αισθητον, νους for το νοουμενον. [31] The words διδυμων ποταμων do not refer to Dirce, but to Thebes, Thebes being called πολις διποταμος. The construction is πυργος διδυμων ποταμων. Thus in Pindar οικημα ποταμου means οικημα παρα ποταμωι. Olymp. 2. Antistr. 1. [32] See note [D]. [32a] γουν. See Dind. [33] τι γαρ παθω; _Quid enim agam?_ est formula eorum, quos invitos natura vel fatum, vel quæcumque alia cogit necessitas. VALCKEN. [34] Προσηγορησων is to be joined with μολων, not with ειμι. In confirmation of this see line 1011. [35] So called after Neïs the son of Amphion and Niobe, or from νεαται, "_Newgate_." SCHOL.