Sophocles Trachiniae 1196

ed. Lewis Campbell

κείραντα, πολλὸν δ᾽ ἄρσεν᾽ ἐκτεμόνθ᾽ ὁμοῦ

Trachiniae. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1203 focus
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Commentary

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1195-1196. mvp-comment-845-1 ὕλην. . κείραντα] These words are applicable, not to the hewing of timber, but to the lopping of such smaller boughs and brushwood as would be suitable for the pyre. The wild-olive, on the other hand, is to be cut down to the root. For δρυός, cp. supr. 766.

1196. mvp-comment-846-1 πολλόν] Cp. Ant. 86, πολλὸν ἐχθίων ἔσει. ἄρσεν'] Herm. quotes Ovid, Fast. 4, 741, 'ure mares oleas,' where others read 'maris rorem,' but gives no other authority for the distinction between male and female olive-trees. The wild olive, associated with Heracles in connection with Olympia, may be called ἄρσην, because rougher and harder than the cultivated and fruitful tree.