Note 29 — INTRODUCTION

The position of τἄμ’ here may be compared with that of ἐμούς in Eurip. Med. 1045 ἄξω παῖδας ἐκ γαίας ἐμούς (‘for they are mine’). In English, too, both the end and the beginning may be emphatic: e.g. “silver and gold have I none.”