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452 THE THESMOPHORIAZUS.E. 13—26.

Mnes. How distinct ?

Eur. Thus have these been distinguished formerly.' For Ether, when first it was separated, ^ and in itself bore moving animals, first contrived an eye for that which ought to see, modelled after the sun's disk, and bored ears like a funnel.

Mnes. On account of the funnel, then, must I^ neither hear nor see ? By Jove, I am delighted at having learned this in addition ! What a thing, I ween, are learned con- versazioni !

Eur. Many such matters mayest thou learn from me.

Mnes. Would,"* then, that, in addition to these good things, I could find out how I might still learn in addition to be lame^ in my legs.

Eur. Come hither, and give me your attention I

Mnes. Well!

Eur. Do you see this little door ? ^

' " TOTi here means olim." Brunck. See note on Lys. 1023. ^ " For soon as rether took a separate form, And in itself bore moving animals, She fabricated first the visual orb, In imitation of the solar wheel." Wheelicright. It would seem to be a parody upon the Melanippe of Euripides, Frag. xxii. Comp. also Arist. Ran. 892. " " So, wegen des Tricbters soil Icb weder biJren nocb sebn ! So wahr micb Zeus, frob bin Icb, dass Icb das zugelernt! Was einem docb ein gelebrter Umgang niitzlicli ist! " Droysen. "'Quantum est cum sapientibus ccniversari !" Bruncli. For the con- struction, see note on Aves, 451. " The interpreters have taken ^?) in Arist. Tbesm. 19, as put for ov : badly. For it refers to the preceding words of Euripides, in which he bad ordered Mnesilocbus neither to see nor bear. In reference to these words, then, which might have been briefly stated, iirjTt cikove fxi'jTt opa, he says, cia rrjv xoavi]v ovv firjT' cikoiho /iijO' opw ; icegeii des Trichters also soil Ich tceder horen noch sehen f " Hermann.

" See Markl. Suppl. 796. Valckn. Hippob 208." Bnmck. Cf.

Pax, 68. Equit. 16, 1324. Ach. 991. Soph. Aj. 389. Phil. 531, 794, 1214. " Utinam aliquo niodo : a familiar phraseology in wishes whose attainment one dare hardly hope for." Sckneidewin. " It is somewhat weaker than lUitiam." Benihai-dy. See bis Wiss. Synt. p. 411. Scb'afer on Soph. Col. 1100. The optatimis optans is never found with av, except in the formula -kCoq du ; and rig dv;

i. e. in order that be may be no longer led about, but have

lameness as an excuse : an easy task for Euripides 6 xuXoiroioc (Ach. 411. Ran. 846) to accomplish.

« Comp. Nub. 92.