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A Note On The Metrical Scholia to The Agamemnon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Raphael Sealey
Affiliation:
University College of North Wales, Bangor

Extract

Metrical scholia to the Agamemnon appear in the manuscripts commonly called F (Laurentianus XXXI. 8) and Tr (Farnesianus Neapolitanus II F 31)— also in G (Venetus Marcianus 663), but these are the same as some of those in F and are of interest only at one point (see below, C). In the lyrical passages these scholia are of two types, which I shall call ‘long’ and ‘short’; Professor Eduard Fraenkel, who prints illustrative examples, has pointed out the distinction (Aeschylus: Agamemnon, 1950, i, pp. 16–21). ‘Long’ scholia give a comparatively full description of the metre of the passage to which they refer: they state adequately the number and order of the cola, classified according to the metrical system which Demetrius Triclinius learnt from Hephaestion's work.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1955

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