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I present first what I take to be a more interesting item than the others. O.C 716–19. δ' εὐρετμος ἔκπαγλ' λα χερ σ ✝παραπτομναπλτα θρῷσκει, τν κατομπδων νηρῄδων κλουθος. The above is Pearson's text, except that I have transferred the last syllable of his 716 to the beginning of my 717. Careful consideration of the metre of this stasimon has convinced me that 716 is rightly regarded by Schroeder as an ionic trimeter (what Pearson's line would be I have no idea, and his in 703 looks oddly detached); further, that 717 is what (I and) most people call a glyconic, as is also 718. Naturally therefore I follow Hermann and Jebb as regards the text in 704, and have thus no use for the three conjectures mentioned by Pearson as substitutes for our admittedly corrupt παραπτομνα

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