who has sent you hither, that you should do as you say, viz. go away -for unless páģeias, facturas eras, (or we might have rendered it a little differently, facere poteras, Angl. neither to my credit might you do it &c.) be thus regarded in the light of what we may term an ancillary verb, standing as the best Greek writers sometimes employ 8pâv and moleîv, in the room, and merely to avoid the repetition, of the principal verb that precedes or follows in the same connection, we must needs supply el añoσтeixos, as Matthiæ has observed, and so be constrained to read either, as he proposes, κατάξι ̓ ἂν πράξειας, οι καταξίως πράξαις ἂν—if you should go away, you would act &c.— (3) Eur. Iph. Α. 418, ὥστε τερφθείης ἴδων, χρόνον παλαιὸν δωμάτων ἔκδημος ὢν, I interpret in the spirit of Hopfn's remark upon it—" Nuncius Agamemnonem provocat ad lætitiam et exsultationem”—so that you should, i. e. I reckon you will, be delighted to see them (Clytemnestra and her children), having been a long time absent from your home: Teppeins (gaudere poteras c) which simply expresses the speaker's own thought, or conception of how Agamemnon might naturally be supposed to feel under existing circumstances, being in fact equivalent to τερφθήσει, οἶμαι— dor οἶμαί σε Tepponvaι Angl. I reckon upon your being delighted-whereas if there were any thing conditional or contingent in the expression; that is, if dwv were to be resolved, as Matthiæ suggests, into ei ïdois, we must have had Teppeins av, as we see in Prom. 758, doi àv, οἶμαι, τήνδ' ἰδοῦσα συμφοράν.

In connection with the present subject, which, as occasion offered, has been somewhat irregularly pursued up to this point-the Editor, in conclusion, has the satisfaction of being able to refer his readers to a passage of Thucydides, which very strongly confirms the truth of what has been advanced in the note on v. 534. p. 174, and made the basis of each succeeding observation. It is Book iii. c. 84: év δ ̓ οὖν τῇ Κερκύρᾳ τὰ πολλὰ αὐτῶν προετολμήθη, καὶ ὁπόσα ὕβρει μὲν ἀρχόμενοι τὸ πλέον ἢ σωφροσύνῃ ὑπὸ τῶν τὴν τιμωρίαν παρασχόντων οἱ ἀνταμυνόμενοι δράσειαν, πενίας δὲ τῆς εἰωθυίας ἀπαλλαξείοντές τινες (μάλιστα δ ̓ ἂν διὰ πάθους ἐπιθυμοῦντες τὰ τῶν πέλας ἔχειν) παρὰ δίκην γιγνώσκοιεν, οἵ τε μὴ ἐπὶ πλεονεξίᾳ, ἀπὸ ἴσου δὲ μάλιστα ἐπιόντες, ἀπαιδευ σία ὀργῆς πλείστον ἐκφερόμενοι, ὠμῶς καὶ ἀπαραιτήτως ἐπέλθοιεν : where, it will be seen, that all such things as, under the general circum

b See Seager's Abridgement of Viger,

ch. v. §. x. xiv. p. 97.

e See note (y) p. 174.

d Compare Agam. 310, oluai Bonv ἄμικτον ἐν πόλει πρέπειν.

stances here set down, either on the one hand an oppressed and retaliating party, or individuals on the other, might—i. e. may be conceived to-do, devise, or execute, are severally expressed by the optatives δράσειαν, γιγνώσκοιεν, ἐπέλθοιεν, without ἄν: but such things as, in that particular case which (as reducing the general proposition within narrower compass, only to set it before us in a more precise and practical form) I have ventured to inclose within brackets, these same individuals would-i. e. may be expected todetermine upon doing &c., are declared to be matter of probable expectation or apprehension, by the introduction of the contingent particle av. Compare p. 134, note (p.)