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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. 1909 Excerpt:...singular ten times. 'See on these words under head of "Metre." Also cf. Witte, op. cit., pp. 208 f. and pp. 221 f. 4 E.g. Alc. 186, 1062, Cyc. 999, Hipp. 180, Or. 35, 44, 88. 5 E.g. Alc. 175, Med. 180, Or. 313. Cf. similar use of vvfipua Ant. 568 and of ydfMi ib. Trach. 1139, Med. 18. Homer provides no precedent for the poetic plurals iadpai, xpijiri'Sts, i-rrUpava which apparently stand under the influence of 1 True plurals. 2 Sing. OC. 888, 1158, Frag. 341; plur.. Ant. 1006, 1016, OT. 16, OC. 98, Trach. 238, 754, 904, 993. But this is not surely of one altar (see Volp, however, op. cit., p. 53.) 4 Mentioned in the singular ib. 1158. 5 So also I T. 405. Cf. the singular in El. 792, IT. 72, 705. Volp says: "Nam cum rdfoi sepulturam significet, de sepulcro legitur rxfoi.'n This is misleading, for the singular is frequently used in the meaning of tomb, while the plural is rare in any sense. Campbell concludes that ' The use of the plural may perhaps point to the various ceremonials of burial, or to the number of tombs in the place where Polybus was gathered to his forefathers." That the latter notion is present is suggested by certain passages in Herodotus'; that the former can hardly be, may be seen in OT. 942 and other places where the deceased is represented as already iv To£o«; that all five uses of the plural in Sophocles are poetic, and can be explained on metrical grounds is shown on another page--in the section on Metre. Eum. 767: avrol yap ij/xtl? ovTts iv robois Tort. Here ij/xtls might be regarded as including both Orestes and his contemporaries. The very fact that raios occurs in the plural without any constraint of metre assures this--for elsewhere in Tragedy the plural has an explanation on that ground. And yet if 1...