more limb and sinew than I take him for, if in the very predicament of the hero of our story-póvos äv pedgos diorois Ch. v. 845—he did not find reason to repent him of the adventurous challenge which had entailed upon him an unequal contest! But enough-I am more ready even than your Lordship to cry out-enough of this. In the text that is now submitted to the public, are some new readings that may possibly interest your Lordship more than aught else in the book. In particular I would invite your attention to vv. 266. 402-4. 530. 673. 778. 935. 999. 1002. 1022-23. 1031: where, sparing as I am, and ever find fresh reason to be, in respect of conjectural emendations, I yet had no alternative left me but conjecture, or despair! Among my Among my Notes-which (if longer even than I had hoped) are employed, it must be remembered, on that part of the Trilogy in which "all the stirring interest is concentrated"-my readers, and not least your Lordship, will deplore the diminution and disappearance of those reliquiæ (so I must henceforth call them) which are distinguished by the initial cipher (S. L.) of an English Prelate, now unhappily no more. That classic pen whose earliest, and whose latest, annotations were given to Eschylus, had apprised me of my loss (for a loss I must ever esteem it), that that unpublished collection of Notes, which in four Plays was complete, did not include the Supplices, nor in the Orestean Trilogy extend far beyond the first and longest portion. At the time of which I speak, some months before his decease, the sure hand of Death was painfully fastening on him—and while I yet lingered See Theatre of the Greeks, Part I. chap. v. sect. ii. p. 68. over the parting memorials of him which this volume contains, a great man had served the good-pleasure of God unto his generation, and had now fallen asleep.. MULTIS ILLE BONIS FLEBILIS OCCIDIT : NULLI FLEBILIOR QUAM TIBI I too, my Lord, have to lament the loss of a distinguished contemporary—a man, whom (haud semper errat fama, aliquando et eligit) the public expectation of his age had marked as one day to succeed to the chair of Porson, and whose accurate and extensive scholarship, had he but lived to bring out a long-expected edition of Eschylus, would have conferred a lasting benefit, not on this age and country only, but on the whole classical world. Even yet there is hope of some portion at least of this expectation being fulfilled. A posthumous publication may still make the name of JOHN WORDSWORTH rank high among the Editors of Æschylus-and in the general rejoicing, with which its appearance would be greeted, none would rejoice more truly, than he who pays this imperfect tribute to the memory of a departed friend. Permit me in conclusion, my Lord, to express my very grateful sense of the ready and respectful attention which, from the day that you first heard of it, the present publication has experienced at your Lordship's hands. Your best attention, indeed, to whatever might seem likely to serve the cause of Education, and especially that kind of Education which it is the province. of our Universities at once to create a demand for, and to furnish the needful supply-is what those, who know your Lordship, would naturally and of course expect. But I mention it here, as not more characteristic of the Christian who minds not high things, but condescends to men of low estate, than of the liberal and enlightened Scholar, who himself seeks after wisdom in the love of it, and holds out the hand of fellowship to all in whom he can discern a meetness to be workers with him in the same field. I honour the spirit that would thus enlarge the too contracted pale within which Classical Learning has yet been cultivated in this country-and with an earnest desire that all those who have the same interests at heart, may long rejoice in the light of your Lordship's example, and always be animated by a remembrance of your untiring zeal, I humbly take my leave, and remain with much esteem, My Lord, Your Lordship's obliged and very faithful Servant, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DURHAM, October 1, 1840. THOS. W. PEILE. CORRIGENDA. Page 6. v. 29. dele comma v. 31. place the comma after póßw Page 17. v. 337. insert a comma after kaтηvapírons · ν. 361. ὀδύνα Page 18. v. 393. 'Apal Page 20. ν. 433. μυχοῦ Page 21. v. 475. гaîa Page 23. v. 517. μαζὸν Page 36. vv. 890-91. Moîpa · ν. 1050. παιδόβαροι v. 1058. read interrogatively Page 138. 1. 12. ǎpa Page 143. 1. 29. Toun 1. 31. Il. i. 235. Page 314. 1. 23. for genuine read generic Page 327. 1. 1. Byz. 1. 5. δα γα 1. 8. πᾶν δα 1. 9. insert after dáπedov, "both with a short." 1. 18. for should read can Page 359. 1. 3. parœmio Page 368. 1. 26 for acre read ace. |