Note 1218 — Chapter IV · THE RELATION OF SOUL AND BODY. (continued 3)
Reading edition
I venture upon this emphatic negation, not so much because I have found no such usage in my reading of Greek literature, as because the line of the Eumenides in which Orestes calls himself ἀλάστορα, οὐ προστρόπαιον, would be hopelessly ambiguous if such an usage had been possible.