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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... first general class comprehends systematic periods in antistrophic relation, a-eaiv. The related parts (strophe, antistrophe) may be juxtaposed, a-weetav vTcnroSiSofteva.1 This relation of parts is found in stasima and sometimes elsewhere, as in Pax 775-96 = 797-818. But the antistrophe is generally separated from the strophe, in comedy, by an intervening series of verses in another rhythm to which a second series corresponds, as in the last half of the parabasis, in the debate and in syzygies. Thus Heliodorus commenting on Pax 939--55 says: fieo4 inrovou / ei eetv - ev Sieeia, with reference to the antistrophe in 1023-38. Such periods, therefore, may be denominated ev Sieeia (or Sie%eiav Heph.) avra-rroSiSo/ieva. On their semeiosis see 851. 1 The phraseology does not happen to Hephaestion, but is restored by Hense occur in the Aristophanio scholia nor in (Unterruchiingm, 131). 707. I. Melic. The period, on inspection, is discovered not to differ essentially in kind or constitution from those of the preceding general class. It is always a song, but it ie not used antistrophically. The following single 'non-antiatrophic melic periods occur in Aristophanes: --708. Prologue: Pax 114-23, . 209-22, Thesm. 101-29, Ran. 209-68. Parode: Nub. 457-75, Pax 582-600, Av. 22762, 400-33, Thesm. 312-30, 352-71. Scene: Ach. 263-79, Av. 904 ff., Thesm. 433-42, 459-65, 776-84, . 875-84. Syzygy: Nub. 707-22, Pax 512-19, Thesm. 659-66. Debate: Av. 628-35, ...