CONTENTS. The Quasi-Caesura in Vergil. P. SANDFORD, M.A., Attachment against Sir James Carroll, dated 1st March, 1631, HERMATHENA. THIS BLAYDES' CHOEPHOROI. HIS is the second instalment of Dr. Blaydes' edition of the Aeschylean Trilogy. It has been since completed by the Eumenides (1899), so that we now possess the editor's entire views on this very difficult series of tragedies. If the present play is compared with the Agamemnon, Dr. Blaydes' work upon it is somewhat slighter than in the former volume. The critical notes are not so profuse, and the commentary is kept more within compass. Wecklein's editions have been largely utilized, and much of value is drawn from them, especially from the volume containing what Wecklein calls the less probable emendations. To the two Oxford editors, Conington and A. Sidgwick, an equal, if not greater, debt is owing. Even more than in the Agamemnon, there is a wide divergence, in respect of difficulty, between the iambic and the lyric portions of the Choephoroi. There is rarely much in the former which cannot be satisfactorily explained, and the corruptions of the MSS. admit of facile alteration. The choric parts, on the other hand, are so excessively corrupt, as to have baffled not merely the present race of critics, but the sagacity of a Porson, an Elmsley, a Dobree, |