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71. Subject omitted even when there is a sudden change of subjects.

So free is the Greek in its omission of the subject that there is often a sudden change of subject without further warning.

γυνὴ ἀπῄει . . . ὡς τὸ παιδίον, ἵνα τὸν τιτθὸν αὐτῷ διδῷ ῾σξ. “ γυνή”) καὶ μὴ βοᾷ(sc. “τὸ παιδίον”), LYS.1.10.

ANTIPHON, 1.26:πῶς οὖν ταύτην ἐλεεῖν ῾σξ. “τινά”) ἄξιόν ἐστιν αἰδοῦς τυγχάνειν ῾σξ. “ταύτην”) παρ᾽ ὑμῶν ἄλλου του;

XEN. An. 1.2.26: γυνὴ αὐτὸν ἔπεισε καὶ πίστεις ἔλαβε” (sc. “Συέννεσις”).

THUC.2.3.4:ἐχώρουν” (sc. “οἱ Πλαταιῆς”) . . . “ἐπ᾽ αὐτούς” (sc. “τοὺς Θηβαίους”), “ὅπως μὴ κατὰ φῶς θαρσαλεωτέροις οὖσι προσφέρωνται” (sc. “οἱ Πλαταιῆς”) “καὶ σφίσιν ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου γίγνωνται” (sc. “οἱ Θηβαῖοι”). 3.62.5:ἐπειδὴ γοῦν τε Μῆδος ἀπῆλθε καὶ τοὺς νόμους ἔλαβε” (sc. “ πόλις”). 8.102.1:ὡς αὐτοῖς οἵ τε φρυκτωροὶ ἐσήμαινον καὶ ᾐσθάνοντο” (sc. “οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι”) “τὰ πυρὰ ἐξαίφνης πολλὰ . . . φανέντα”.

SOPH. Ai. 549. Tr. 362-3 (where see Jebb).

ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντέφλεξε Μήνα,
καὶ μεγάλων ἀέθλων ἁγνὰν κρίσιν . . .
θῆκε

(sc. “Ἡρακλῆς”). 9.45-6. P. 4.23-5. So elsewhere.

HES. fr. 5 Rz.:οὐδέ οἱ ὕπνος” | “πῖπτεν ἐπὶ βλεφάροις, φυλακὴν δ᾽ ἔχεν” (sc. “Ἄργος”) “ἔμπεδον αἰεί”.

HOM. Il. 23.704-6: “ἀνδρὶ δὲ νικηθέντι γυναῖκ᾽ ἐς μέσσον ἔθηκεν” (sc. “Πηλεΐδης”), | “πολλὰ δ᾽ ἐπίστατο” (sc. “ γυνή”) “ἔργα, τίον” (sc. “Ἀχαιοί”) “δέ τεσσαράβοιον”. | “στῆ δ᾽ ὀρθὸς καὶ μῦθον ἐν Ἀργεΐοισιν ἔειπεν” (sc. “Πηλεΐδης”).1

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