[761] v. 414.
[762] The elision of αι in v. 407.
[763] Poetic, 1454a.
[764] Arrangement: protagonist, Odysseus; deuteragonist, Silenus; tritagonist, Polyphemus.
[765] The Detectives (Ἰχνευταί) of Sophocles is now known to us by extensive fragments, see pp. 175 sq.
[766] Murray puts it “perhaps even before 438”.
[767] It attracted little attention from ancient scholars. There are no scholia, and the hypothesis is incomplete.
[768] Odyssey IX. 105-566.
[769] Cp. vv. 549, 672-5, with Od. IX. vv. 366, 408-12.
[770] Cp. vv. 460-3 with Od. IX. 384-8.