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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt:...Tavrd... irpori£dvei, in the same way misery, wandering about, takes its seat now by one and now by another, raird = /carA rairrd. See lex. Kurd, B. IV. 2. irpds iWor dov are used distri. butively. See lex. dfXXore. 277-283. O«k axovo.ous tire8iii£as Tovto, yov, have urged this upon those who are not unwilling. For the verb see 1. 73. d/coiiaais from &KW, Attic contr. for diKuv.--AKpio&rirn x8ovV njjSt ircXu, / am about to approach this rugged earth. weQ is fut. act. v. ire. Xdfw (G. 110, 2, N. 1 (b)), used intransitively. The verb is sing, because the leader of the Chorus is supposed to speak for the wholft company. This is very common in dramatic poetry. See H. 519.--Toiis «povs S) irovovs... 8id iravTos, the complete story of your woes. 284-396. Second Scene in the First Episode. Oceanus, the father of the Choral Nymphs, appears upon a winged creature and takes up the dialogue with Pro. This entrance of Oceanus enabled the car containing the Chorus to descend, and the Sea Nymphs to alight and take their proper places in the orchestra between the spectators and the stage. 284-295. Tjku... Kcxcvoov, "I have reached the bourn of my weary road." doix6s is the long race.course in opposition to ord. Siov, the short course. Its length varied, but Pindar (0. iii. 59) states that in the chariot races the im)Xi/ was rounded twelve times, giving a length of twenty.four stadia. See Smith's Diet. Antiq. p. 1055, art. stadium, ripiw. (G. 162). Oceanus came from the far.distant west, outside the pillars of Herakles. Others connect ripp.a with the participle, and translate (see lex. Siap.elfla, 2) having completed the limit.--oluvov. From TeTpaovceXijs (1. 395) we infer that this winged creature must have been a beast rather than a...