1321. 4 would speak one speech more,
or is tt mine own dirge? She has spoken
ws θανουμένη (7. 1319) yet she will speak
once more, if it be but ws θανοῦσα. It is
the last stage in the conflict between her
terror and her despair.— With the proper
tone, which I have tried to show by
punctuation, I do not find the text
open to any just objection. Hermann’s
ῥῆσιν, οὐ θρῆνον is a ‘quiet and dignified
rejection of the chorus’ pity’ (Sidgwick).
But there is nothing stoical in Cassandra,
nothing but utter and horrible fear. Nor
would ἐμὸν τὸν αὐτῆς be any longer ap-
propriate.— Wecklein retains the text.
1322—1325. The general sense is ‘I
make to the sun my last prayer, that
when vengeance comes z7y wrongs may
not be forgotten’. In the words there is
some slight error, and many corrections
(see Wecklein) are more or less plausible.
I think however (with Mr Housman F.
ἐχθροῖς φονεῦσι τοῖς ἐμοῖς (originally rovs).
ἀντρέψειεν.
1327.
Ph, XVI. p. 286) that ἐχθροὺς...τοὺς ἐμοὺς
(Pearson) and $óvevow (Bothe, cf. φονεύω,
φόνευμα) are almost certain, and I would
change nothing else. Translate *I call
upon the sun, unto the last I see, that
those my avengers may take of these my
enemies bloody vengeance also for the
easy conquest of a poor slain slave’.
Between Tots ἐμοῖς and ὁμοῦ (a the same
time with the vengeance for Agamemnon)
there is no doubt a logical inconsistency :
logic would require τοῖς τοῦ βασιλέως
τιμαόροις or the like. But what is lost in
logic is gained in effect: she says once
too often that which she wants to say,
that the wrong is hers also, the avengers
hers also.—Mr Housman would mend
the logic by writing τοῖς νέοις.---ἡλίῳ,,...
