222 Journal of Philology. I have mentioned in the note on Pindar, there is only one example with which I am acquainted, namely, in the passage of Solon quoted by Demosthenes (de Falsa Legat. 289), where Wolf's conjecture : ft ye ns QJ] <peuya>v is required by the metre. The passage which creates the greatest difficulty is jEschyl. Agam. 414 : irapeuriv 8d|ai (pepovcrat x-P lv paratav paxav yap evr av co-ffka tis doKwv opav 7rapaXXdacra 8ia ep5>v (iieftaKev ofns ov p&vo~Tepov 7rrepois o7ra8ois vttvov KeXevdois, where the poet is probably referring to Homer, II. xxm. 99, 100 : <opeaTo x f P (TL <p&U<ri ovS" eXa|3e. I cannot think that 7rapaKkd<r<ra>, which does not occur elsewhere in jEschylus, and which does not apply to the mere evanescence of a vision, would be used in this passage. Besides, the corresponding passage in the strophe pefiaKeu plp<pa Sta. ttuXwv, shows that iEschylus intended the 8ia x*p<v to depend upon the pepaxev which follows, and not on some parti- ciple preceding. Then again the phrase 8m x P* v points to the omission of some word in which the stretching out of the arms to embrace the visionary form was expressly signified. Having regard then to the fact that iEschylus frequently imitated Homer, that the preceding opav explains the loss by absorption of the first syllable of the verb used by Homer in the parallel passage, and that the full form of the subjunctive aorist optfrrai is represented by the traces of the text opav 7rapaXa^aaa f where napaWao- may represent yp. aXa>s written under parav, and the first syllable may have been suggested by 7rdp-o-i at the begin- ning of the previous line ; I cannot help thinking that the inser- tion of dptgrjTai is a better remedy for the impossible construction of f It av with a participle, than Scholefield's &ok<Sv 6pa, which is after all rather doubtful Greek. That opiyco-Qai. might be used by jEschylus with special reference to the hands is clear from Choeph. 420, ra x<pos optypara compared with Agam. 1082, rrpoTeiW He x e V '* x ft P 0S optyopeva. And as opiyopat is followed by an accu- sative in the Attic dramatists, and a<j>c is a perfectly general pronoun of reference in jEschylus, the metre might be completed by writing : parav yap, e2r av (affka tis doKtov opav opffarat a(pe, fita x ( P** v /3/3a*rev oyjns k.t.A.
