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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. 1908 Excerpt:...as ipwfiaaa'?xe" (the Aldine reading, first corrected by Tyrwhitt). The latter may be what the scribe meant, since the preceding verse (402) is in L wrongly given to Deianeira. But he might also have written just thus in copying ipwfiaaa (xe,(r-What is taken for an apostrophe after a might equally well be the breathing on e, placed, as often, a little to the left. 404 3 It' 6r L. Li. To the royal Deianeira, unless mine eyes deceive me,--daughter of Oeneus, wife of Heracles, and my queen. Me. The very word that I wished to hear from thee:--thou sayest that she is thy queen? Li. Yes, as in duty bound. Me. Well, then, what art thou prepared to suffer, if found guilty of failing in that duty? Li. Failing in duty? What dark saying is this? Me. 'Tis none; the darkest words are thine own. Li. I will go,--I was foolish to hear thee jjodpHg. Me. No, not till thou hast answered a brief question. Li. Ask what thou wilt; thou art not taciturn. Me. That captive, whom thou hast brought home--thou knovvest whom I mean? Li. Yes; but why dost thou ask? Me. Well, saidst thou not that thy prisoner--she, on whom thy gaze now turns so vacantly--was Iole, daughter of Eurytus? Li. Said it to whom? Who and where is the man that will be thy witness to hearing this from me? Me. To many of our own folk thou saidst it: in the public gathering of Trachinians, a great crowd heard thus much from thee. K&toibbo. Syr'; off pr)iu.' But he afterwards adopted it; and it is now commonly ascribed to him. 419 T)v i/ir' 07x0(0.5 bpqx MSS.: in L a letter has been erased after iyvolaa. 421 rolwi V iroioioix K, and so Blaydes reads. 433 irdpa Bothe: jrapiix MSS. 433 7roXo?o-ix Wakefield conj. Ttoxxojs iv. 424 ravrd y' tlar/Kova' A: raur' cla-fiKova' L: for the loss of ye, cp. 491, Ant. 648,...