^{page 11 note 1} For used of feelings cf. Soph. Ajax 1216 and Xen. Cyrop. 6. 2. 33

^{page 12 note 1} Verrall assumed a suppressed major premiss: ‘(Only the children of infanticides haunt a house); these children are haunting the house: these are children of infanticides.’ But could Aeschylus expect his audience to supply mentally as a premiss something which has left, so far as I know, no trace elsewhere in Greek literature?

^{page 12 note 2} Martin; Hartung; Bamberger; Thiersch; Rauchenstein; H. L. Ahrens; Maehly: a deplorable collection.

^{page 13 note 1} Proc. S.P.R. xliii (1935), 463.Google Scholar

^{page 13 note 2} Ibid. xxxiv (1924), 262.

^{page 13 note 3} Cf. Prof. Murray's remark, ibid. xxix (1916) 62, that ‘some of the information which seems to come most clearly and rapidly, as when I feel a certain emotional atmosphere, or the country to which an incident belongs, or the fact that it is in a book and not in real life, does not seem to be the sort that could well be conveyed by mere sense impressions of the canonical sort’.

^{page 13 note 4} Apol. 22 c, Meno 99 c, Ion 534 cd, Soph. 252 c. Cf. Ar. Vesp. 1019 f.

^{page 13 note 5} In the last line of Pindar's tenth Pythian may have its first syllable short; but in tragedy seems invariably to make position.

^{page 14 note 1} I think we can rule out the view that should be divided, one word depending on , the other on or are surely a pair, as in the anonymous line (trag. adesp. 504).

^{page 15 note 1} There can hardly be any objection to the substitution of a spondaic anceps for a tribrach; the heavy anceps balances the heavy anceps of the next dipody,

^{page 16 note 1} Reported by Lesky, , Wien Sitzb. vol. ccxxi. iii. 35.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 2} -compounds are for some reason rare: L.S. quotes only , from Galen. But Aeschylus favoured the analogous - compounds: he has in this play, at 713, and fragm. 338.

^{page 17 note 1} e.g. Menexenus 234 b, ‘the Council is going to choose some one to make a speech over thedead’.

^{page 17 note 2} Cf. Cobet, , Var. Lect., p. 217;Google ScholarThompson, Maunde, Palaeography, p. 148.Google Scholar

^{page 18 note 1} For with a verb involving motion cf. Eur. Andr. 1064 Rhesus 511

^{page 19 note 1} P. B. R. Forbes, however, wrote in C.R. Ixii (1948), 104 that the passage ‘deprecateslowering the qualification for entrance to the Areopagus’.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 1} C.A.H. v. 100 gives the year of Mnesitheides, 457/6, as the date of the law. But Professor Wade-Gery has pointed out to methat the law must belong to the preceding year, since Mnesitheides was elected under it.

^{page 21 note 1} Agam. 1534–6 is similarly explained by Murray. But there I incline to accept Wilamowitz's