Note 17 — Chapter V
Reading edition
The lines (vv. 824-826):
[Greek: échousa ... tàn phrygian xénan tàn, chissòs ôs atenês, petraía blasta davasen]
seemed to strike the good lady particularly—the sound, that is, not the sense of them. "Kisson——blast her—d—n her! Dear me!" she remarked; "what language, to be sure! I had no idea that Antigone [pronounced Antigoan] was that kind of young person!"