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⁹ (2nd edn with corrections; Oxford, 1962). G. Murray accepted it in Aeschylus, Tragoediae (2nd edn; Oxford, 1955); Sir Denys Page in John Dewar Denniston and Denys Page (edd.), Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oxford, 1957) and in Aeschylus, Tragoediae (Oxford, 1972); and M. L. West in Aeschylus, Tragoediae (Stuttgart, 1990). For references to dissenting views see Jean Bollack, Agamemnon 1, 2*me partie (Lille, 1981), pp. 420–2.Google Scholar

¹⁰ It means ‘ambushes’ in Plut. Phil. 13.9, the only place where it is attested. But it could also mean ‘marshalling companies’, as Beattie shows, citing in Hdt. 1.103

¹¹ It is certain in Med. 825–6 and 1037. The text is in doubt for other reasons in El. 1262–3 and Hel. 1484–5.

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¹⁴ John, Conington‘clang of shields’(London,1848),Google ScholarLewis, Campbellclashing of shields(Oxford,1906),Google Scholar and Arthur, Plattclanging of shield'(London,1911)Google ScholarSmyth, H. W.'clang of shield(London,1926)Google ScholarA. Sidgwick in his commentary (4th edn; London, 1890)A. Verrall in his (2nd edn; London, 1904) ‘din of shield’, L. MacNeice in his verse translation (London, 1936) ‘clanging of shields’, and Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones in his prose version (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1970) ‘din of shields’.Google Scholar

¹⁵ Cf. 5.167 = 20.319 16.331, 713,789,21.422

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²² In Thucydides and Herodotus is regularly used of the confusion and disorder of battle

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²⁵ The lexica do not make this clear.

²⁶ I am indebted to an anonymous reviewer for CQ for a helpful suggestion on this point.

²⁷ M. Marcovich, Emerita 42 (1974), 126 cites and several other adjectives as counterexamples to refute Maas, but all the others are formed from collective nouns, as Bollack (n. 9) points out. Searching with the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Irvine, 1992) I found l, only in Polyb. 34.8 and Ath. 8.1.Google Scholar

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³⁰ Elsewhere in tragedy only Rhesus 780

³¹ Cf. Euripides' use of SOKTJCIC in t he same unusual sense in He!. 36 a n d 119.Google Scholar