¹ Stadtmuller's text.

² Cf. Campbell, A. Y., C.R. N.S. iii, p. 13Google Scholar. He translates ‘I swore by three stones’, but this would be an unparalleled use of the dative. ‘With three stones’ is much more likely to be correct: i.e. ‘Using the three stones I swore’. For this use of the comitativeinstrumental dative, cf. Eur. Supp. 10: ἰκτ⋯ρι θαλλῷ, and Ba. 77: ⋯σ⋯οις καθαρμοῖΣιν.

³ Oxford text (Diels). The manuscripts read διαλ⋯βη for διαβ⋯λ⋯.

⁴ Cf. P.-W., s.v. Σ⋯μβολος, and Wecklein on Aesch. P.V. 487.

⁵ π⋯τρα was used in later Greek for π⋯τρος(=λ⋯θος): cf. Headlam, , On Editing Aeschylus, p. 130Google Scholar.