^OINISSAI.                             205

KaOrjaro KdBpov Xaos cicTTrtScoi' cTrt,

Kacf)07jpev OVTTCO revx^o'iv rre^paypevov

'Apyelov elaTreaovres i^ai^vrjs arparov.

KOvSets vTTearrj, TreSta 8' i^eTriprrXaaav                1470

(jievyovres, eppet S' alpa pvpicov veKpa)v

Xoy^^ats TrtTvoi^Tcov.     cos 8' iviKcopev pdx^,

01 pev Aihs rpoTTaiov iaraaav fipiras,

01 8' acTTrtSas o'uXcoj'Tes 'Apyeicov veKpcov

aKvXevpar  eiaco reixicov iiTepTTopev.                     1475

dXXot Se TOVS Oavovras 'Avriyovrjs pira

veKpovs cfyepovaiv ivOdB' ot/cTtcrat <f)iXois*

TroXet 8' ciycoves ot pev evrvxicrraroi

rfjB' i^ifirjaav, ot Se SvtTTU^ecrTaTot,

XO,    OVK ets a/coas eTt SucTTu^ta                                       1480

ScojLtaTos rjKei'  TTdpa ydp Xevaaeiv
TTTcopara veKpcov rpiaacov TjBrj
rdBe TTphs peXdOpois kolvS Oavdrco
aKoriav alcova Xaxdvrcov,

AN.    ov TTpoKoXvTTropeva ^OTpvxcoBeos                            1485

1469. arparhv, as Klotz remarks, de-    of Antigone is divided by Hermann into

pends on eio-7reo*(J*'T€s, not on e(p9i}p.ev.—    antithetical systems.    The first part, to

01 Se are the Argives.    The Thebans had    v. 1508, is almost wholly composed of

their arms ready, the Argives had not,    dactylic verses, sometimes, as in  1488

but   were moving to get them; and so    and 1490, with the  anacrusis; it then

the sudden attack on the latter proved    passes   into   choriambics,   occasionally

successful.                                                    with cretic and  bacchiac  variations.—

1471.  pivpiwv   has  been  restored  by    In the first verse &orpvx(^Seos was re-

Kirchhoff from the best MSS.    Recent    stored by Hermann from  one MS. for

editions   give  p-vpiov with the   inferior    ^oarpvxoiSeos.    He quotes the authority

MSS.    The  Schol. however explains it    of the Etym. Mag, p. 205, 32, Trapa rhv

TTXe7arov.                                                     &6rpvy ^drpvxos Kal ^6arpvxos, 6 Qorpv-

1473. operas rpdiratov.    See v. 1250,     eiSi)s.      Porson had conjectured $orpv-

1480. OVK els aKods. The misfortune    coSeos. With a^p« we must supply
of the family in the death of the    KaX6p.p,ara from the context, and trans-
brothers has not now come merely (as    late thus; ' Without throwing in coy-
before) to the ears, but it is present to    ness a veil over the clustering curls on
the sight.—For Trapa 7ap Porson gives    my cheek, nor through maiden modesty
TTopa Kal, from the corrupt reading of one    ashamed to display the scarlet which
MS. TrapaKeAeiio-eiv, "miro judicio," says    mantles beneath my e^es, the blush on
Hermann.                                                    my face, I hurry along,  in  a wild grief

1482. TTTt^^aTa.    See Orest. 1196.          for the dead, flinging the covering off mv

1484.  aiiij*', like ai^^jp, was sometimes    hair, and letting loose the saffron-dyed
used feminine by the poets. Hes. Scut,    hem of my embroidered dress.' For
3H1, edr'dv S^ Kvkvov yXvKeprjs alwvos    jSo/cxa re/dJa)!/see Aesch, Theb, 832. See
dpieparis.                                                       on Bacch. 936.  Orest.  1435.    Theocr.

1485.  The following monody or threnos    xv. 131, ^ttI a<pvpd KdXnov dve7aai.    For