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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
The Argive herald is dissuading the king from championing the cause of his petitioners. ‘It is either because they have detected some stupidity that they have come here to you, or because, being in a hopeless position, they are just chancing their arm to see whether or not 
. For I doubt if they expect that, in your right senses, you would, etc’ For the alleged impersonal use of 
(‘employed in a sense similar to that of our colloquial to come off, Pearson) editors can quote only two passages of Aeschylus, which I transcribe from Page's text: Su. 527–8 
, Ch. 378–9 
(‘non intellegunturjmutilum esse iudico inclusis scholiorum fragmentis’, Page).
1 For the phrase έξ άμνΧάνων see GRBS 14 (1973), 249.Google Scholar
2 Euripides, The Heraclidae, ed. Pearson, A.C. (Cambridge, 1907).Google Scholar
3 Euripidis Heraclidae, ed. Elmsley, P. (London, 1813).Google Scholar
