[104] So Erfurdt.

[105] See the Cambridge editor.

[106] This line seems justly condemned by the Cambridge editor.

[107] With [Greek:  kampteis] understand [Greek:  dromon] = thou art fast arriving at the goal of the truth.

[108] Read [Greek:  apedexo] with ed.  Camb.

[109] “I remember it:  for the wedding did not, by its happy result, take away the recollection of that commencement of nuptial ceremonies.”  CAMB.  ED.

[110] i.e.  Iphigenia sent it with a view to a cenotaph at Mycenae, as she was about to die at Aulis.  See Seidler.

[111] “This Homeric epithet of an only son is used, I believe, nowhere else in Attic poetry.  Its adoption here seems owing to Hom.  Il. [Greek:  I]. 142 and 284. [Greek:  tiso de min hison Orestei Hos moi telygetos trephetai thaliei eni pollei].”  ED. CAMB.

[112] This is Musgrave’s elegant emendation, which Hermann, unwilling to let well alone, has attempted to spoil.  See, however, the Cambridge editor, who possesses taste and clear perception, unbiased by self-love.

[113] Read [Greek:  emois] with the Cambridge editor.

[114] But [Greek:  phygeis], and [Greek:  o philos], the emendation of Burges, seems far better, and is followed by the Cambridge editor.

[115] i.e.  I can imagine your sufferings at Aulis.

[116] The Cambridge editor compares Hec. 684. [Greek:  hetera d’ aph’ heteron kaka kakon kyrei].

[117] This is Reiske’s interpretation, taking the construction [Greek:  prin xiphos pal. epi haimati].  But Seidler would recall the old reading [Greek:  pelasai], comparing Hel. 361. [Greek:  autosidaron eso pelaso dia sarkos hamillan].  This is better, but we must also read [Greek:  eti] for [Greek:  epi] with the Cambridge editor.

[118] [Greek:  rhipai podon] is a bold way of expressing rapid traveling.

[119] Read [Greek:  ana] with Markland, for [Greek:  ara].

[120] I read [Greek:  e dia kyan]. with the Cambridge editor.  The following words are rendered thus by Musgrave, “Per ... est longum iter.”

[121] Unintelligible, and probably spurious.

[122] The Cambridge editor finds fault with the obvious clumsiness of the expression, and proposes [Greek:  echein] for [Greek:  labein].  I have still greater doubts about [Greek:  ekbantas tyches].  The sense ought to be, “’tis the part of wise men, when fortune favors, not to lose the opportunity, but to gain other advantages.”

[123] See Dindorf’s notes.  But the Cambridge editor has shown so decided a superiority to the German critics, that I should unhesitatingly adopt his reading, as follows:  [Greek:  ou me m’ epischeis, oud’ aposteseis logou, to me ou pythesthai ... phila gar tauta], (with Markland,) although [Greek:  proton] may perhaps be defended.

[124] See the Cambridge editor.  The same elegant scholar has also improved the arrangement of the lines.