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476-499. THE ECCLESIAZUSiE. 641

may they turn out so, O mistress Pallas and ye gods ! But I will depart : and fare-you-well I [_Exii Chrenies.']

Blep. And you too farewell, O Chreines ! [ Goes into his ho use. '^

Chorus of Women. Advance, proceed ! Is there any of the men that is following us ? Turn about ! look ! guard yourself carefully, — for knaves ai-e numerous, — lest perchance some one being behind us, should espy ^ our dress. But step along, stamping ^ with your feet as much as possible. This affair would bring disgrace upon us all among ^ the men, if^ it were discovered. Wherefore gird yourself up, and look about -^ in that direction and on the right, lest the affair shall be- come a mishap.^ Come, let us hasten ! for we are now near the place, whence we set out to the Assembly,,when we went'^ there : and we may see the house, whence is our general, who devised the measure which has now been decreed by the citi- zens. Wherefore it is fitting that we do not loiter waiting longer, equipped with beards, lest some one shall see us, and perhaps^ denounce us. But come hither to the shade,^ having come to the wall,^*' glancing aside with one eye," change your dress again as you were before, and do not loiter : for

" " Erspiihe." Droysen. " Habititm nostrum observet." Bninck. ^ Cf. vs. 545, infra. The interchange of genders {(yavTi]v, vs. 481. iiriKTv-rrStv, vs. 483. ■TTepKTKOTrovj.uvT], vs. 487) is at least remarkable. " Seepe chorus mulierum de se in genere masculino loquitur." Reiske. Cf. vs. 589, infra. Lys. 1304. Eur. Hippol. 1107, ed. Monk. Bernhardy, W. S. p. 429. Dawes, M. C. p. 572. Hermann, Vig. n. 50. Dorville, Char. p. 292. Mus. Crit. i. p. 334 ; ii. p. 296. ' " Denn wiirden v/ir noch jetzt entdeckt,

So bracht' es ewig Schimpf und Schand beim Mannervolk uns alien. Broysen.

It is wrongly translated in Brunck's version.

^ A participle is often the representative of an hypothetical clause. See Kriiger, Gr. Gr. as cited in the note on Ran. dQ. ' Cf. Aves, 1196, 424. Thesm. 666.

^ " Ne hcec res infortunio nobis sit." Brunch. See Bernhardy, W. S. p. 402, and cf. vs. 495.

' See Kriiger, Gr. Gr. § 38, 3, obs. 1.

' In Brunck's edition taw icaTcnrrrj. " The comic writers never use £c before a vowel, or t'crw." Dindorf. For this remarkable in- terchange, see Bernhardy, W. S. p. 402.

_ "So retire we one and all,

Within the friendly shade of yon projecting wall." Smith. '° See Liddell's Lex. in voc. ruxiov. " Cf. Vesp. 497.

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