[61] I take περὶ φασγάνῳ with χεῖρας ἀείρων rather than with ἀποθνῄσκων. Butcher and Lang render: ‘I strove to raise my hands as I was dying upon the sword, but to earth they fell.’

[62] Od. i. 288.

[63] Infra, pp. [218], [236 ff.], [239].

[64] See Eur. Or. 500.

[65] Euripides, Troades, 900 ff.

[66] i. 298 ff.

[67] Supra, p. [59].

[68] Supra, p. [60].

[69] Supra, p. [55].

[70] Supra, p. [56].