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Euripides, Tro.1089–1090

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ra'anana Meridor
Ra'anana Meridor
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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The various explanations and emendations so far offered for this passage do not seem to have solved its difficulties yet. While it is generally held that agrees ad sensum with the subject of the sentence (‘numerous children’), the sense of the adjective itself (‘hanging down without support’) appears far from satisfactory. Of the conjectures proposed till now only Jackson's isconsidered noteworthy by the latest editor of the play. Jackson, however, offersit as a ‘fair provisional remedy’ only.

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , December 1978, pp. 472
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1978

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References

1 The adjective is unknown to Classi cal Greek. LSJ quote A.R. (2. 1041, with and Paul.Sil. (A.P. 5.260, with

2 Jackson, , Marg.Scaen. p.202: ‘The explanation (= children … clinging without support to the necks, arms, or perhaps clothes of their mothers) can hardly have been taken au grand sérieux at any time.’Google Scholar

3 Jackson, loc,cit. mentions Heath, Barthold, Wecklein.

4 Jackson, loc,cit.

5 Lee, K. H., Euripides Troades (1976).Google Scholar

6 seems to construe with more elegantly than with

7 The scholiast will have understood as cf. e.g. in this stasimon, line 1067. The meaning of however, need not be limited to the passive: the children's faces are streaming with tears which stream from their own eyes.

8 For the adjective LSJ give Philostratus. The noun occurs in Plato.

9 Tro.15-16: In this sense the simplex is generally used (since Homer, e.g. 11.8,65: frequent; cf. in this play 448-9 and 994-5 Note the dative with all the examples.

10 Hdt.1.174, Antiph. 52.8.

11 According to LSJ a unique usage of the adjective. The noun is quoted from Suetonius.

12 According to LSJ.