[12] Matthiæ considers this as briefly expressed for τι τουτο, το εραν, ‛α λεγουσι ποιειν ανθρωπους. Still I can not help thinking ανθρωπων a better reading. B. [13] Phædra struggles between shame and uncertainty, before she can pronounce the name. It should be read as if ‛οστις ποθ'--‛ουτος--‛ο της Αμαζονος. B. [14] Matthiæ takes παναμεριος as = εν τηιδε τηι ‛ημεραι, i.e. up to this very time. I think the passage is corrupt. B. [15] This passage, like many others in the play, is admirably burlesqued by Aristoph., Ran. 962. B. [16] _Or, this is a second favor thou mayst grant me_. [17] On the numberless references to this impious sophism, see the learned notes of Valckenaer and Monk. Compare more particularly Aristoph. Ran. 102, 1471. Thesmoph. 275. Arist. Rhet. iii. 15. B. [18] Literally, "spurious coined race." B. [19] The MSS. reading, φυτον, is preferable. B. [20] The syntax appears to be δυσεκπερατον βιου, _such as my like can scarcely get over_. Musgrave has followed the other explanation of the Scholiast, which makes βιου depend on παθος. TR. I have followed the Scholiast and Dindorf. B. [21] προτρεπουσα, αντι του ζητουσα και εξερευνωσα. Schol. Dindorf acknowledges the strangeness of the usage, and seems to prefer προσκοπουσ', with Monk. B. [22] Cf. Soph. Ant. 751. ‛ηδ' ουν θανειται, και θανουσ' ολει τινα. B. [23] For the meaning and derivation of αλιβατοις, see Monk's note. [24] ‛αλικτυπον seems to be an awkward epithet of κυμα, unless it mean "_dashed [against the shore] by the waves_." Perhaps αλικτυπον would be less forced. B. [25] ‛Υπεραντλος ουσα συμφοραι, a metaphor taken from a ship which can no longer keep out water. [26] See the note on my Translation of Æsch. Agam., p. 121, note 1. ed. Bonn. B. [27] Read ωμοι εγω πονων: επαθον ω ταλας with cod. Hav. See Dindorf. B. [28] Cf. Matth. apud Dindorf. B. [29] In the same manner the chorus in the Alcestis comforts Admetus. v. Ου γαρ τι πρωτος, ουδε λοισθιος βροτων γυναικος εσθλης ημπλακες. [30] ‛Υπερ is here to be understood. VALK. [31] Σφενδονη, literally, the setting of the seal, which embraces the gem as a sling its stone. [32] See a similar expression in Æsch. Eum. 254, Οσμη βροτειων ‛αιματων με προσγελαι. [33] The construction is, ειη αν εμοι αβιωτος τυχα βιου, ‛οστε τυχειν αυτης. MONK. [34] η, _which land, together with the present earth_. [35] On the Orphic abstinence from animal food, see Matth. apud Dind. Compare Porphyr. de Abst. ii. 3 sqq. B. [36] Αθικτος appears here to have an active sense. So in Soph. Œd. c. 1521. αθικτος ‛ηγητηρος. It is used in its more frequent sense (a passive) in v. 648, of this play. TR. Compare my note on Æsch. Prom. 110, p. 6, n. I. B. [37] Cf. Med. 169. Ζηνα θ' ‛ος ορκων θνατοις ταμιας νενομισται. B.