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216 tEDIPUS AT COLONUS. [CHAP. XXVII.
at the entrance. All these objects are in character
with the place as leading to another state of ex-
istence ; and their relation to that state is easily
perceived. And may. it not be suggested that the
idea to which I have just alluded, of an Elysian
migration, associated with Thoricus from the story of
Cephalus its prince, may serve to explain the obscure
relation of the Qop'uuos -neTpos, Thorician Stone, which
Sophocles next introduces into the same scene1?
1 The interpretation adopted by Kruse, (Hellas, 11. I. p. 252.) where
he supposes the Gopixios ire-rpos of Sophocles to be a promontory at
Thoricus, had been properly guarded against, even on grammatical
grounds, by the remark of Elmsley, I. c. 'Male nonnulli rupem, quasi
Qopitdas ireTpas scripserit poeta.'
at the entrance. All these objects are in character
with the place as leading to another state of ex-
istence ; and their relation to that state is easily
perceived. And may. it not be suggested that the
idea to which I have just alluded, of an Elysian
migration, associated with Thoricus from the story of
Cephalus its prince, may serve to explain the obscure
relation of the Qop'uuos -neTpos, Thorician Stone, which
Sophocles next introduces into the same scene1?
1 The interpretation adopted by Kruse, (Hellas, 11. I. p. 252.) where
he supposes the Gopixios ire-rpos of Sophocles to be a promontory at
Thoricus, had been properly guarded against, even on grammatical
grounds, by the remark of Elmsley, I. c. 'Male nonnulli rupem, quasi
Qopitdas ireTpas scripserit poeta.'