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Two notes on Sophocles' Trachiniae1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Paul Gildersleeves
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ἀμμένει need not have an object: ἐλεινὸν can be taken adverbially. The only substantial objection to the text is thus metrical, for reasons already advanced by others and summarized below.

The paradosis has ἐλεεινὸν. However, the forms δεεινός, κλεεινός and ἐλεεινός are identified as invalid in Attic by Porson and Ellendt. Porson plausibly explains the several corruptions in the MSS at e.g. Aesch. PV 246 as due to scribes’ over-familiarity with Homer and ignorance of most metre.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 105 , November 1985, pp. 154 - 155
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1985

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References

2 LSJ s.v.—e.g. Soph. El. 1397.

3 Porson, R., Euripidis Hecuba (London 1817) viGoogle Scholar.

4 Ellendt, F., Lexicon Sophocleum (Berlin 1872)Google Scholar s.v. ἐλεινός.

5 Kamerbeek, J. C., The plays of Sophocles ii (Leiden 1959)Google Scholarad loc.

6 Gomme, A. W. and Sandbach, F. H., Menander, a commentary (Oxford 1973)CrossRefGoogle Scholar on Dysk. 297.

7 West, M. L., Greek metre (Oxford 1982) 62, 68Google Scholar.

8 West (n. 7) III. See also Dale, A. M., Lyric metres of Greek drama (Cambridge 1968) 115Google Scholar.

9 Cf. Hor., Carm. i 23Google Scholar, and the collected references of R. G. M. Nisbet and M. E. Hubbard ad loc.

10 Studies on the Text of Sophocles iii (Leiden 1978) 94–5Google Scholar.

11 His italics.

12 CPh lxxv (1980) 366Google Scholar; West repeats this preference in Gnomon liii (1981) 525Google Scholar.

13 Tradition and Originality in Plaulus, Hypomnemata lxii (Göittingen 1980) 18–67Google Scholar, especially 42 ff., 55 ff.

14 In addition to xiv 496, cf. x 456, xx 481–2, and the anatomical remark at viii 325 ff. For further neck-wounds cf. for example, v 656,vii 12.