Abstract

νδνουϲα μν Φυγι πολιτν ν Φκετο θόνα, ατ τε πάνταξυμΦέρουϲ' 'Iάϲονι. 12 πολιτν Π1 codd. et Σ bv: πολίταιϲ V3, sicut coni. Barnes θονοϲ Π1 gE; δ Stob. 4. 22. 30 The two Sophoclean passages by which Page supports his plea that 'πολιτν stands for πολίταιϲ…, being attracted by the following ν into the genitive case’ do not inspire much confidence, since both are capable of being explained differently. Further, as a recent writer has remarked, ‘on cherche en vain la raison qui aurait pu inciter Euripide … à écrire πολιτν à la place de πολίταιϲ Le vers n' aurait rien gagné à cette substitution, sinon une obscurité inutile’.