8o—101) draws from the
story a like moral in his Zaz£u religio
poturt condemning
however ze/zgio in a much more sweep-
ing sense than Aeschylus intends.—
βροτοὺς (Spanheim) is the common read-
ing, but is for many reasons not to be
accepted: for (1) it does not account for
the Ms., (2) the emphasis on βροτοὺς has
no point, (3) there is then no excuse for
the position of yap, and (4) the sense is
incomplete, as there is nothing to show
what particular delusion is intended.
suadere malorum,


ο
ἀντ. δ΄.
240

234. δ᾽ οὖν however, for good or ill.
235. θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων. The


antithesis is significant *the daughter
being a blood-relation, the wife a stranger"
(Sidgwick), and moreover exposes the
moral monstrosity of supporting a cause,
which rested on the sanctities of the
family, by an offence against those very
obligations.
236. dpwydvin apposition totheaction
(τὸ θύειν) of the verb θυτὴρ γενέσθαι.
237. προτέλεια: see on vv. 65, 249,
and Lucretius (Lc. ‘non ut sollemni
more sacrorum perfecto posset (Iphi-
genia) claro comitari /ymenaeo, sed
casta inceste z/emdi tempore in ipso
concideret ".
238—240: for her prayers and appeals
to her father, (mere) life-breath of a girl,
the spectators, eager for war, cared not at
all. βραβῆς this word, of uncertain
origin, seems to combine, like the Latin
arbiter, the meanings of judge and sfecta-
tor (Eur. Hel. 703, and see editor’s note
on Eur. 7Zed. 274), the fundamental sense
being probably zess. Here it means
in full * spectators on whom the decision
depended '.—aiGva παρθένειον. These
words, as their position shows, are re-
lated as an explanation to παρ᾽ οὐδὲν
This forbids the corrections
αἰῶνα παρθένειόν τ᾽ (and her virgin life)
Elmsley, aiw re παρθένειον (O. Müller).
αἴαγμα παρθένειον (Karsten) is admissible.
