Sec.89. Quisquam: for the use of this pronoun in interrogative sentences cf. Virg. Aen. I. 48 with the FileOutputStreams of Wagner and Conington. Tam certa putat: so Sextus A.M. VII. 61 points out that Protagoras must in accordance with his doctrine [Greek: panton metron anthropos] hold that the [Greek: memenos] is the [Greek: kriterion ton en maniai phainomenon]. Video, video te: evidently from a tragedy whose subject was [Greek: Aias mainomenos], see Ribbeck Trag. Lat. rel. p. 205. Cic. in De Or. III. 162 thus continues the quotation, “oculis postremum lumen radiatum rape.” So in Soph. Aiax 100 the hero, after killing, as he thinks, the Atridae, keeps Odysseus alive awhile in order to torture him. Hercules: cf. Eur. Herc. Fur. 921—1015. The mad visions of this hero, like those of Orestes, are often referred to for a similar purpose by Sext., e.g. A.M. VII. 405 [Greek: ho goun Herakles maneis kai labon phantasian apo ton idion paidon hos Eurystheos, ten akolouthon praxin tautei te phantasiai synepsen. akolouthon de en to tous tou echthrou paidas anelein, hoper kai epoiesen.] Cf. also A.M. VII. 249. Moveretur: imperf. for plup. as in 90. Alcmaeo tuus: cf. 52. Incitato furore: Dav. reads incitatus. Halm qu. from Wesenberg Observ. Crit. ad Or. p. Sestio p. 51 this explanation, “cum furor eius initio remissior paulatim incitatior et vehementior factus esset,” he also refers to Wopkens Lect. Tull. p. 55 ed. Hand. Incedunt etc.: the MSS. have incede, which Lamb. corrected. The subject of the verb is evidently Furiae. Adsunt: is only given once by MSS., while Ribbeck repeats it thrice, on Halm’s suggestion I have written it twice. Caerulea ... angui: anguis fem is not uncommon in the old poetry. MSS. here have igni. Crinitus: [Greek: akersekomes], “never shorn,” as Milton translates it. Luna innixus: the separate mention in the next line of Diana, usually identified with the moon, has led edd. to emend this line. Some old edd. have lunat, while Lamb. reads genu for luna, cf. Ov. Am.


