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Aeschylus, Eumenides 174–8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

N. Georgantzoglou
N. Georgantzoglou
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University of Athens
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The difficulty in this antistrophe is found mainly in its last line and is caused by ⋯κε⋯νου which, as it stands, does not make sense and is also unmetrical (⌣––, instead of the required –⌣–, cf. the last line [172] of the strophe). It is noticeable on the other hand that the basic meaning of the antistrophe is not really affected by omitting †⋯κε⋯νου†, and it looks as though the scholia did not pay any attention to it in commenting (on ἕτερον ⋯ν κάρᾳ) as follows: .

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , May 1996 , pp. 288 - 289
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1996

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References

1 For a judgement in Hades of sins committed in life cf. Suppl. 228–31,414–16; Pi. 0.2. 56ff.; Ar. Ra. 145ff.; PI. R. 33Od–331b, Phd. 113d ff., Grg. 523a ff.

2 It could have been a consequence of such considerations that we have conjectures like Wakefield, Hartung, Weil, Zakas ( Wecklein). Two other conjectures seem to intend someone related to the Erinyes (Hades?): Scholefield, Newman, whereas a different line of thought is (Sauppe, Wecklein). Many other conjectures are listed in Wecklein's edition (Berlin, 1885).

3 was certainly not written by Aeschylus. The only question is whether the corruption is due to the misreading of a similar word or words or to the intrusion of an explanatory gloss. Ether seems possible.

4 West, M.L., Studies in Aeschylus (Stuttgart, 1990), p. 276.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 If Aeschylus actually wrote , which is an intelligent conjecture, could have been a gloss on it. However, I should suggest that could well be elucidatory not of the missing word(s), as scholars seem to take for granted, but of the expression else of the word . Then , originally written in a margin, entered the text later as a correction for the word(s) now lost.