Judges 11:37

and go down upon the mountains A slight emendation (weradhtifor weyaradhti) improves the sense: and roamor wander restlessly; cf. Jeremiah 2:31 (-we roam at large").

bewail my virginity To be neither wife nor mother was considered a punishment and a reproach: cf. Genesis 16:1-5; Genesis 30:23; 1 Samuel 1:10-11; 1 Samuel 1:15; Isaiah 4:1; Luke 1:25. The ancient Greeks felt similarly 1 [45].

[45] See Livingstone, The Greek Genius(1912), p. 83 f.