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646 THE ECCLESIAZUSiE. 584—594.

useful. But tliis is the thing I am most apprehensive about, whether the spectators • will be willing to make innovations, and not rather abide by the very customary and ancient usages.

Blep. Now about making innovations,'^ don't be alarmed ; for to do this and to neglect what is ancient, is with us equi- valent to another constitution.

Prax. Now let none of you reply ^ or intei-rupt me, before he understands the plan and has heard the speaker.* For I will declare that all ought to enjoy all things in common, and live upon^ the same property ; and not for one to be rich, and another miserably poor ; nor one to cultivate much layid, and another to have not even enough to be buried in ;" nor one to have'^ many slaves, and another not even a footman. But I will make one common subsistence for all, and that^ too equal.

' Xenoph. Anab. ii. 4, 7, tyii> f^iv ovv tov jSacnXia, e'lTrtp TrpoOvjdsiTai rjfidg aTrok(jai, ovk nlSa o n ^£1 avTov ojionai. Aves, 1269, t^tivov ye TOV Ki'ipvKa TOV vapa tovq jSnoTovg oixontvov, tt firjSeTTOTt vouTrjasi iraXii'. Soph. Rex, 246, KUTeuxofiai ck tov SicpciKOTCi, tin tiq tig wv XiXt]6iv, UTE ttXhoi'ojv n'tTa, KUKOV (caKwc viv cijioipov tKTpiipai ftiov. Cf. Hom. Od. n. 78; A. 652; A. 275. Soph. Electr. 1364. Trach. 287. Kriiger's note on Thuc. ii. 62, init. Bernhardy, W. S. p. 132. Per- son Prsef. Hec. p. vii. In the present passage, Tovi^SftaTCiQ depends on okSoiKa, and the construction is an example of "Anticipation." See examples cited in the note on Nub. 1148, and on vs. 1126, vifra. For ti after verbs oi fearing, see Kriiger, Gr. Gr. § 65, 1, obs. 9.

^ " Urn den Fortschritt sei nicht weiter besorgt ; denn es herrscht Fortschreiten und Neuern Und Verachten des Altherkbmmlichen hier als wahi-er und einziger Herrscher." Droysen. Cf. Acts, xvii. 21. Bernhardy, W. S. p. 231. In this construction fi'tv always stands between the preposition and the article. See Kriiger, Gr. Gr. § 50, 1, obs. 13. Cf. note on vs. 625, infra.

' Acharn. 221, /if) yap iyxavy ttotL Plato, Legg. ix. p. 861, E., /(»j TiQ ohjTat. Symp. p. 213, E., ju»; fioi fiii.i(p7]Tai. See Kriiger, Gr. Gr. § 54, 2, obs. 2. Elmsley, Soph. Rex, Prjef. p. xxxviii. and vss. 903, 49. Edinburgh Rev. No. xxxviii. p. 488. Porson, Orest. 776. Monk, Hippol. vs. 893. Hermann, Greg. Cor. p. 867. Vig. n. 267. Neue on Soph. Rex, 49.

■• " Praxagora is delivering a general remark how people ought to listen to the speaker, therefore uses the masculine gender." Bergler.

^ " Vom Gemeingut jcglicher leben." Droysen.

« " Cf Plut. 556. yEschin. p. 14, 13, ed. Steph. Demosth. Mid. p. 549, 12, ed. Reiske." Porson.

' Xpno^ai, like utor in Latin, often = haheo.

• Instead of kuI tuvtu, and that too, the Greeks often use sai ovtoq,