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... play , and doubt- less the poet would have suppressed it , had it been possible . But it seems that even before 430 B.C. copies of books spread with such rapidity at Athens , that as soon as a play came out it became public property ...
... play , and doubt- less the poet would have suppressed it , had it been possible . But it seems that even before 430 B.C. copies of books spread with such rapidity at Athens , that as soon as a play came out it became public property ...
Page vi
... play to another . It is commonly said ( since Hermann suggested it ) that in the noise and confusion of the departing audience , the concluding words were not audible , and that therefore the author took no trouble about them . The case ...
... play to another . It is commonly said ( since Hermann suggested it ) that in the noise and confusion of the departing audience , the concluding words were not audible , and that therefore the author took no trouble about them . The case ...
Page vii
... play . * It is therefore certain that we have not the text in a condition at all approaching its original purity . Our Ms. authority for it is as good as that for any of the poet's plays ; we have it pre- served in copies of both ...
... play . * It is therefore certain that we have not the text in a condition at all approaching its original purity . Our Ms. authority for it is as good as that for any of the poet's plays ; we have it pre- served in copies of both ...
Page x
... play , and the character painting , I will not repeat here what has been already said in my Greek Literature ( i ... plays ) . Recently we have in England Mr. Paley's Euripides ; in France , Weil's Sept Tragédies ; in Germany ...
... play , and the character painting , I will not repeat here what has been already said in my Greek Literature ( i ... plays ) . Recently we have in England Mr. Paley's Euripides ; in France , Weil's Sept Tragédies ; in Germany ...
Page xi
... play so simple , that , with very little trouble , the reader can recover the rythm of the Greek poet . As regards ... plays , he separates the extant Mss . into two families , the one derived from an archetype of 9 plays , the other ...
... play so simple , that , with very little trouble , the reader can recover the rythm of the Greek poet . As regards ... plays , he separates the extant Mss . into two families , the one derived from an archetype of 9 plays , the other ...
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