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that in my judgment there is no ground for this conclusion. I believe
that for the most part the lyric portions of the text have been copied as
accurately as the rest, that is to say, with errors not numerous and
almost always minute; and as a corollary to this, I believe that the
correspondence of strophe and antistrophe is not always an exact corre-
spondence of syllables and quantities, but frequently varies from it, of
course within such limits as to preserve the correspondence of rhythm.
I propose here to notice all the variations which occur in our play, but
first, as a good specimen case, we will take out of their order the last
strophe and antistrophe of the opening Chorus.

This is the MS. text, with the exception of

(Seidler) for
in 159. It exhibits no difficulty of meaning; for the objec-
tions which have been taken to
in 155 would never have
been entertained but for the supposed evidence of the metre. Of the
seven pairs of lines, four have exact correspondence and three have
not. As might be expected a priori; assuming correspondence of
rhythm, the restoration of syllabic correspondence is not difficult up to
a certain point. In 153 we omit
with the later copies (to the injury
of the sense), in 160 we substitute
for
and in 163
for
If these changes were completely successful, they
might appear plausible: but the only result of them is to leave us with
an irreducible case--155
answering to 162

which accordingly, after many unsuccessful attempts (see
Wecklein Appendix), is left standing; and we remain uncertain whether,
with so much to correct and something which we cannot correct, we
have got anything like Aeschylus after all. But the truth is, that the

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Publication Information: Book Title: The 'Seven against Thebes' of Aeschylus. Contributors: A. W. Verrall - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1887. Page Number: 128.
    
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