[D] The full sense, as laid down by Schœfer and Dindorf, is, "for ever when an old man travels, whether in a carriage, or on foot, he requires help from others." πασα απηνη πους τε is rather boldly used, but is not without example. [E] i.e. "_you ask a thing_ (i.e. your son's safety) _dangerous to the city, which you can not preserve_." SCHŒFER. [F] These three lines are condemned by Valck. and Dind. [G] Matthiæ attempts to explain these words as follows: "εμπυροι ακμαι may be put for τα εμπυρα, in which the seers observed (ενωμων) two things, viz. the divisions (‛ρηξεις) of the flame, which, if it slid round the altars, was of ill omen (hence ‛υγραι, i.e. gliding gently around the altars with many curves, for which is put ‛υγροτης εναντια); and 2dly, _the upright shooting of the flame_, ακραν λαμπαδα." [H] See Dindorf on Orest. 1691. He fully condemns these lines as the work of an interpolator. They are, however, as old as the days of Lucian. * * * * * * MEDEA. * * * * PERSONS REPRESENTED. NURSE. TUTOR. MEDEA. CHORUS OF CORINTHIAN WOMEN. CREON. JASON. ÆGEUS MESSENGER. SONS OF MEDEA. _The Scene lies in the vestibule of the palace of Jason at Corinth_. * * * * * THE ARGUMENT. * * * * JASON, having come to Corinth, and bringing with him Medea, espouses Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. But Medea, on the point of being banished from Corinth by Creon, having asked to remain one day, and having obtained her wish, sends to Glauce, by the hands of her sons, presents, as an acknowledgment for the favor, a robe and a golden chaplet, which she puts on and perishes; Creon also having embraced his daughter is destroyed. But Medea, when she had slain her children, escapes to Athens, in a chariot drawn by winged dragons, which she received from the Sun, and there marries Ægeus son of Pandion. * * * * * MEDEA. * * * * NURSE OF MEDEA.