[72] I have closely followed the Cambridge editor.

[73] See the notes of the same scholar.

[74] Dindorf has rightly received Porson’s successful emendation.  See Tracts, p. 224, and the Cambridge editor.

[75] Read [Greek:  sois te mellousin] with Markland.

[76] The Cambridge editor would omit vs. 1022.  There is certainly a strange redundancy of meaning.

[77] Read [Greek:  estasen] with Mark.  Dind.

[78] So called, either because he was carried off by Jove while hunting in the promontory of Dardanus, or from his Trojan descent.

[79] I have adopted Tyrwhitt’s view, considering the words inclosed in inverted commas as the actual words of the epithalamium.  See Musgr. and ed.  Camb.  Hermann is strangely out of his reckoning.

[80] Read, however, [Greek:  Nereidon] with Heath, “first of the Nereids.”

[81] The Cambridge editor would read [Greek:  nymphokomoi], Reiske [Greek:  nymphokomon].  There is much difficulty in the whole of this last part of the chorus.

[82] Such is Hermann’s explanation, but [Greek:  bebekotos] can not bear the sense.  The Cambridge editor suspects that these five lines are a forgery.

[83] The Cambridge editor rightly, I think, condemns this line as the addition of some one “who thought that something more was wanting to comprise all the complaints of the speaker.”  I do not think the sense or construction is benefited by their existence.

[84] “Verum astus hic astu vacat.”  ERASMUS.

[85] Dindorf has apparently done wrong in admitting [Greek:  prosoudisas], but I have some doubt about every other reading yet proposed.

[86] See Camb. ed., who suspects interpolation.

[87] Cf.  Lucret. i. 94.  “Nec miserae prodesse in tali tempore quibat, Quod patrio princeps donarat nomine regum.”  AEsch.  Ag. 242 sqq.

[88] The Cambridge editor clearly shows that [Greek:  moi] is the true reading, as in vs. 54, [Greek:  to pragma d’ aporos eiche Tyndareoi patri], and 370.

[89] There is much doubt about the reading of this part of the chorus.  See Dind. and ed.  Camb.

[90] I have partly followed Abresch in translating these lines, but I do not advise the reader to rest satisfied with my translation.  A reference to the notes of the elegant scholar, to whom we owe the Cambridge edition of this play, will, I trust, show that I have done as much as can well be done with such corrupted lines.

[91] Achilles is supposed to lay his hand on his sword.  See however ed.  Camb.

[92] Obviously a spurious line.

[93] I have punctuated with ed.  Camb.

[94] See ed.  Camb.

[95] [Greek:  euphemesate] here governs two distinct accusatives.

[96] The Cambridge editor here takes notice of Aristotle’s charge of inconsistency, [Greek:  hoti ouden eoiken he hiketeuousa] [Iphigenia] [Greek:  tei hysterai].  He well remarks, that Iphigenia at first naturally gives way before the suddenness of the announcement of her fate, but that when she collects her feelings, her natural nobleness prevails.