Sophocles: with English notes, Volume 3Whittaker, 1880 |
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Page vi
... present state of the text , than from the wide difference of opinion which prevails as to what constitutes a good or " adequate " edition . For whereas one school , that of Mr. Blaydes , and to some extent that of G. Dindorf and E ...
... present state of the text , than from the wide difference of opinion which prevails as to what constitutes a good or " adequate " edition . For whereas one school , that of Mr. Blaydes , and to some extent that of G. Dindorf and E ...
Page vii
... present texts are little better than fields for the exercise of guessing ? Or how comes it that , if so many passages are really unsound , the correction of them by conjecture is so rarely successful , and so many remedies are applied ...
... present texts are little better than fields for the exercise of guessing ? Or how comes it that , if so many passages are really unsound , the correction of them by conjecture is so rarely successful , and so many remedies are applied ...
Page xi
... presents the smallest departure from a rigid regularity . And in order to extol the merit and the value of the conjecture , they naturally greatly exaggerate the difficulty of the vulgate reading . Thus in time they contract , as Mr ...
... presents the smallest departure from a rigid regularity . And in order to extol the merit and the value of the conjecture , they naturally greatly exaggerate the difficulty of the vulgate reading . Thus in time they contract , as Mr ...
Page xiii
... present MSS . Texts founded on such a theory are as shifting and ephemeral as quick- sands . For , as Prof. Conington well remarks , " the question is not simply , as some appear to think , between two readings , neither , doubtless ...
... present MSS . Texts founded on such a theory are as shifting and ephemeral as quick- sands . For , as Prof. Conington well remarks , " the question is not simply , as some appear to think , between two readings , neither , doubtless ...
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... present play was composed by its author at the advanced age of 85 , ' B.C. 409 , we are told in the Greek Argument that it gained the first prize . As , in the case of the Electra , and very nearly so in that of the Antigone , we have ...
... present play was composed by its author at the advanced age of 85 , ' B.C. 409 , we are told in the Greek Argument that it gained the first prize . As , in the case of the Electra , and very nearly so in that of the Antigone , we have ...
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