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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Jebb renders the last clause as follows: ‘The warrior of the white shield, who came from Argos in his panoply, hath been stirred by thee to headlong flight, in swifter career.’ ‘In swifter career’ is a discreet rendering of 
., Jebb says, ‘does not mean (1) “in flight swifter than their former approach“ nor (2) “the reins are shaken ever faster on the horses' necks”.’ ‘The Argives’, he writes, ‘began their retreat in the darkness (cf. 16): when the sun rises, the flashing steel of their bridles shows them in headlong flight’. Cf. P. Mazon, R.E.G. xxv (1951), 13. This view is shared by all modern scholars, except that Dain and Mazon put commas after 
and translate accordingly; which I do not think is an improvement.
page 12 note 1 Schmid-Stahlin, , Gesch. d. gr. Lit. i. 5, pp. 127–31.Google Scholar
page 12 note 2 Some account of the first congress must have followed the affairs of Corcyra and Potidaea; but the four speeches in their present form may come from a later revision, for there is much to be said for the view of Pohlenz (loc. cit.) that they were composed later than the Corinthian speech at the second congress (i.120–4).
page 12 note 3 Read to the Oxford Philological Society in November 1955. I am very grateful to Professor D. L. Page for reading and criticizing the manuscript. I must also thank Sir John Beazley and Mr. A. H. Coxon for advice on points of detail.
page 15 note 1 One might well ask whether the Argives were thought of as being on horses at all. 
; Jebb) certainly suggest the foot-soldier. And the line of the cyclic Thebaid (fr. iv Allen) that describes the escape of Adrastus 
might be thought to suggest that its writer imagined Adrastus as escaping mounted on the back of that celebrated horse. But this is not a safe line of argument. The Argives may well have been imagined as using chariots to bring them up to or away from the scene of battle, but as doing the actual fighting on foot. This seems to be how Aeschylus conceived the battle (Th., passim); and Anti-machus (fr. 32 Wyss) describes Adrastus, at least at one stage, as riding in a chariot drawn by Gairus and Arion.
page 23 note 1 Hartung, Tyrrell, Piatt, and Wilamo-witz all read 
.M.A.Bayfield in his school edition (Macmillan, 1901) conjectured 
: but he accepted Jebb's 
. and inserted ·; after 
unnecessarily.
page 24 note 1 Are the Thracians mentioned simply to distinguish this Salmydessus from that which A. P.V. 725–7 places in the Pontus? (Cf. Apollodorus, , bibl i. 120Google Scholar
page 24 note 2 On A. Pers. 870 see A. H. Coxon's article Persica, which is to appear in a forthcoming number of this journal.
page 25 note 1 Page, D.L., Greek Literary Papyri, no. 19, p.136.Google Scholar
