[103] The same elegant scholar justly assigns these lines to Iphigenia.
[104] So Erfurdt.
[105] See the Cambridge editor.
[106] This line seems justly condemned by the Cambridge editor.
[107] With καμπτεις understand δρομον = thou art fast arriving at the goal of the truth.
[108] Read απεδεξω with ed. Camb.
[109] "I remember it: for the wedding did not, by its happy result, take away the recollection of that commencement of nuptial ceremonies." CAMB. ED.
[110] i.e. Iphigenia sent it with a view to a cenotaph at Mycenæ, as she was about to die at Aulis. See Seidler.
[111] "This Homeric epithet of an only son is used, I believe, nowhere else in Attic poetry. Its adoption here seems owing to Hom. Il. Ι. 142 and 284. τισω δε μιν ‛ισον Ορεστηι ‛Ος μοι τηλυγετος τρεφεται θαλιηι ενι πολληι." ED. CAMB.
[112] This is Musgrave's elegant emendation, which Hermann, unwilling to let well alone, has attempted to spoil. See, however, the Cambridge editor, who possesses taste and clear perception, unbiased by self-love.