Adversaria. 397 v. 14. The next word 'laoviav, as applied to Epidaurus, hap- pily illustrates and is illustrated by a passage of Strabo, who says, on the authority of Aristotle (8. 15), speaking of Epidaurus, Ta>v 'HpaicXeideov KareX66vT(ov "lavas avrois ovvoiKrjo-ai*. In v. 15 of course we must punctuate bevpo, pomp' and supply perhaps ode . . . 6/aiXos. Many suitable epithets will occur to the reader. The passage will now assume at least an intelligible form. I have ventured to subjoin a translation. Yia, 7raXat (pdipevov, naXtv ap-ftporov 'AnoXXcovos KiKKr](TKai Aa)j3art poXelv eiriKovpov ip.aio~iv os irore kcu vckvcov dp,evrjvav p,vpia (fivXa Taprapov evpcoevros deiKavo~Tolcri peXadpois, bvavoo-Tov anXoov re poov, neXddovra blavXov, 7rao~iv 'lo~ov reXeo-as dvbpeo-ai KaraOv^Toicrt, Xip,VT) Trap yoocovra <a aXXvra KtoKvovra avrbs dp.eibrjTOi.0 epvo-crao ^epo-ecpoveirjS' eir ecpeneis Qpyicqs ieprjs e8os, etr eparetv^v Uepyapov, e'ir, 7rific5ra, 'laoviav 'TLirlbavpov, bevpo, pciKap- KaXeei ere p.dy(ov obe . . , op.iXos. O slain erewhile, O lifted up again to live for ever, Child of the Sun, to thee I call, thy suffering one deliver : Thou who of yore to all mankind didst open set and free The frith that without ferry or ford sweeps to the seething sea ; Didst loose the myriad tribes of dead, the feeble folk that dwell Amid the crumbling palaces and black-burnt halls of hell ; Didst still the hopeless prisoners' cries, and the wailings on the shore, And bring them home where they shall see the stony Queen no more ; An if thou sit in sacred Thrace, on Pergamus' bright steep, Or hard by Epidaurus and the old Ionian keep
- [Pausanias (vii. 4) gives a some- iast king of Epidaurus before the Do-
what different account : -rryepwv 8e fy rian migration was Pityreus, "Iwi'os avo- ro?s "Iwci HpoKXrjs 6 Hirvpe'ws, avrbs yovov rod RoijOov. See Miiller's Dorians, re 'Eiridcujpios Kal '~Eiridavpiovs rb 7roi> I. 9 1 (Eng. Tr.) ; Thirlwall's Greece, I. dyuv, ot a-rrb Avicpovrov k.t.X. Toi/ry t<? i 18 ; and C. Mtiller in Fragm. Hist. Gr. UpoKXe? ytvos fy airb'lwvos rod Rovdov: II. 137.] and again (11. 26), he states that the 272
