[6] δρομωι for μορωι is Markland's, and, doubtless, the correct, reading. μονος is merely a correction of the Aldine edition. [7] But read τας--δελτους with the Cambridge editor, = "in relation to my former dispatches." [8] ταν should probably be erased before κολπωδη, with the Cambridge editor. He remarks, "the sea-port, although separated from the island by the narrow strait of Euripus, is styled its _wing_." On the metrical difficulties and corruptions throughout this chorus, I must refer the reader to the same critic. [9] But λεκτρον, _uxorem_, is better, with ed. Camb. [10] It is impossible to get a satisfactory sense as these lines now stand. I have translated εξορμα. There seems to be a lacuna. The following are the readings of the Camb. ed. εν γαρ π. αντησηις, παλιν εξ. ς. χαλινους, επι κυκλωπων νιν ‛ιεις θυμ. [11] But αγχιαλον is better, with ed. Camb. from the Homeric χαλκιδα τ' αγχιαλον. He remarks that this word, in tragedy, is always the epithet of a place. [12] i.e. to exact satisfaction for her abduction. [13] i.e. the tents containing the armed soldiers. [14] ‛ηδομενους refers both to Πρωτεσιλαον and Παλαμηδεα, divided by the schema Alcmanicum. See Markland. [15] Cf. Homer, Il. Β. 763 sqq. [16] Cf. Monk on Hippol. 1229. I have translated συριγγας according to the figure of a part for the whole. The whole of the remainder of this chorus has been condemned as spurious by the Cambridge editor. See his remarks, p. 219 sqq. [17] Can θετον refer to αγαλμα understood? [18] This part of the chorus is hopeless, as it is evidently imperfect. See Herm. [19] The Cambridge editor would assign this line to Menelaus. [20] I read ευ κεκομψευσαι, with Ruhnken. The Cambridge editor also reads πονηρα, which is better suited to the style of Euripides. [21] The same scholar has anticipated my conjecture, σαφης for σαφες. [22] Compare the similar conduct of Pausanias in Thucyd. i. 130, Dejoces in Herodot. i., with Livy, iii. 36, and Apul. de Deo Socr. p. 44, ed. Elm. [23] I read το Πριαμου with Elmsley. See the Camb. ed. [24] With the Cambridge editor I have restored the old reading εχοντες. [25] But see ed. Camb. [26] αυ is a better reading. See Markland and ed. Camb. [27] There is little hope of this passage, unless we adopt the readings of the Cambridge editor, ‛ους λαβων στρατευμ'. ‛ετοιμοι δ' εισι. The next line was lost, but has been restored from Theophilus ad Autol. p. 258, and Stob. xxviii. p. 128, Grot. [28] Cf. Soph. Antig. 523. ουτοι συνεχθειν, αλλα συμφιλειν εφυν. [29] Dindorf condemns the whole of this speech of the messenger, as well as the two following lines. Few will perhaps be disposed to follow him, although the awkwardness of the passage may be admitted. Hermann considers that the hasty entrance of the messenger is signified by his commencing with half a line.