^{page 56 note 1} Cf. Sandys, 100. It was struck by hand.

^{page 56 note 2} The adverb in superlative is used with by Eunapius, , Vit. Soph. 502,Google Scholar ed. Boissonade; but that is A.D. fourth to fifth century.

^{page 58 note 1} But is in itself much more appropriate to the pursuer; see L.S.J.

^{page 58 note 2} For the notion that it is at 652 ^a see below.

^{page 58 note 3} 219–20 is no evidence to contrary; it assumes no more than does 467.

^{page 58 note 4} To the substance of my sense (= ‘Quite so, that succour is purely illusory!’) I see no alternative; in 652 must be made specious, a requirement which Murray’s supplement fails to meet. ‘Some random taunt’ Sandys; no, not random.

^{page 59 note 1} Or as Mr. D. W. Lucas suggests, the presence of an accomplice (649) who has got in and must not get out.

^{page 59 note 2} In effect by Dodds.

^{page 59 note 3} Not at birth, evidently, but when old enough to have been given a name.

^{page 59 note 4} I do not believe in Kitto's sense (and consequent attribution of 652 to P.), because that would in my opinion require .

^{page 60 note 1} He renders (p. 173) 'a god most dangerous to man, yet most gentle to him’.

^{page 60 note 2} And the list could be extended; a nice example is Iph. Aul. 920–1.

^{page 61 note 1} In Theocr. 26. 11 (context clearly reminiscent of E. Ba.) P. has hidden himself in a bush which ‘grows to a height of about six feet’(Gow).

^{page 61 note 2} More about the problem of the iambic tripody in Dale, , Lyric Metres, 101, 113–14.Google Scholar

^{page 62 note 1} ‘Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever; as it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming.’ And later: ‘Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him’. See Forster, E. M., Howards End, ch. xxvii.Google Scholar

^{page 62 note 2} So also in all of the 11 exx. in Aesch. and the two in Soph, also support my argument.

^{page 62 note 3} P.S.—Cf., with in context, in Alc. 474–as rightly explained ii Miss Dale's edition.

^{page 63 note 1} Hermes, lxxxii (1954), 248.Google Scholar

^{page 63 note 2} , I.A. 568, refers to more personal or positive ambitions.

^{page 63 note 3} See further below.

^{page 63 note 4} As in the consistent imagery of Plato, Theaet. loc. cit.

^{page 64 note 1} Quite the contrary, this is a quietist creed, 389–90.

^{page 64 note 2} Denniston rightly remarks that ‘the juxtaposition of is avoided’. There are, however, exceptions: E. Ion 361 (but probably corrupt); Or. 1596, sound, but here means ‘yes’.

^{page 65 note 1} Paley suggested but with as subject, so he had to render ‘in running’ which is hopelessly feeble; my idea is quite different.

^{page 66 note 1} Seen also in and circuitus and ‘circuit’.

^{page 66 note 2} Similarly Il. 18, 601.

^{page 66 note 3} Witness, for example, the contrast in Hdt. 2. 124. 4 between and (which denotes much the same process as ).

^{page 66 note 4} Kitto in C.R. Ix. 66Google Scholar justly complained of this item of the simile as taken by Dodds and others.