[12] Potterus, Arch. Gr. _mortuos_ a _Græcis_ προνωπεις vocari tradit, quod solebant ex penitiore ædium parte produci, ac in _vestibulo_, i.e. προνωπιωι collocari: atque hunc locum adducit, sed frustra, ut opinor. Non enim _mortua_ jam erat, nec _producta_, sed, ut recte hanc vocem interpretatur schol. εις θανατον προνενευκυια, i.e. _morti propinqua_. Proprie προνωπης is dicitur, qui _corpore prono ad terram fertur_, ut Æschyl. Agam. 242. Inde, quia moribundi virium defectu terram petere solent, ad hos designandos translatum est. KUINOEL. [13] The old word "dizening" is perhaps the most literal translation of κοσμος, which, however, here means the whole preparations for the funeral. Something like it is implied in Hamlet, v. 1. ... her virgin rites, Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home Of bell and burial. B. [14] Aristophanes is almost too bad in his burlesque, Equit. 1251. σε δ' αλλος τις λαβων κεκτησεται, κλεπτης μεν ουκ αν μαλλον, ευτυχης δ' ‛ισως. B. [15] Some would translate προνωπης in the same manner as in verse 144. [16] Conf. Ter.: Phorm. iv. 4, 5. Opera tua ad _restim_ mihi quidem res rediit planissume. [17] Perhaps it is unnecessary to remark, that αβιωτον agrees with βιον implied in βιοτευσει. [18] ‛οραι scilicet ‛ηλιος. MONK. [19] Cf. Hippol. 1372. B. [20] It must be remembered that to survive one's children was considered the greatest of misfortunes. Cf. Plaut. Mil. Glor. l. 1. "Ita ut tuum vis unicum gnatum tuæ Superesse vitæ, sospitem et superstitem." B. [21] Kuinoel carries on the interrogation to γαμους, and Buchanan has translated it according to this punctuation. Monk compares Iliad, p. 95; μηπως με περιστελωσ' ‛ενα πολλοι. [22] Compare my note on Æsch. Ag. 414 sqq. B. [23] _These_, my children. [24] Reiske proposes to read τεθριππα δε ζευγη τε και--_And both from your chariot teams, and from your single horses cut the manes_. [25] This festival was celebrated in honor of Apollo at Sparta, from the seventh to the sixteenth day of the month Carneus. See Monk. B. [26] On λιπαραις Αθαναις, see Monk. B. [27] Literally, _the duplicate_ of such a wife. [28] αναξ πελτης, so αναξ κωπης in Æsch. Pers. 384, _of a rower_. Wakefield compares Ovid's _Clypei dominus septemplicis Ajax_. MONK. [29] Heath and Markland take τωι for τινι. [30] Cf. Theocrit. Id. i. 71 sqq. of Daphnis, τηνον μεν θωες, τηνον λυκοι ωρυσαντο, Τηνον χοι 'κ δρυμοιο λεων ανεκλαυσε θανοντα ... πολλαι μεν παρ ποσσι βοες, πολλοι δε τε ταυροι, πολλαι δ' αυ δαμαλαι και πορτιες ωδυραντο. Virg. Ecl. v. 27 sqq. Calpurnius, Ecl. ii. 18. Nemesianus, Ecl. i. 74 sqq.; ii. 32. B. [31] αρδην γινεται απο του αιρειν. δηλοι δε το φοραδην. Schol.