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ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δει-

νὸν ἀποστάζει
960

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965

Antigone. Sophocles. Oxford. 1924.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by Tufts University.

Current edition Experimental

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὃ Δρύαντος ¹,
950

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεὺς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς, ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφρακτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος
955

ἐπέγνω μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας ² εὔϊόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας ³.
960

b

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς,

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει
920

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔϊόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ’ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
925

2

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεὺς, κηρεσίοις ὀργαῖς

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει
940

κατάφρακτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζειν

ἀτηρόν τε μένος, κεῖνος ἐπέγνω, μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίαις γλώσσας.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας, Εὔϊόν τε πῦρ,
945

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.

2

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ' *ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος, κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾿ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965
β

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς,

ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965
2

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ’ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς,

ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ’ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965
2

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς, ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῶι.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965

2

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξυχόλως παῖς ὃ Δρύαντος,
945

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς, ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφρακτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
950

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας, εὔϊον τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.

2

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος, 1
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς, 2

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ. 3

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει 4

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις 5
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις. 6

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ, 7

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας. 8
965
2

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 955 focus

Χορός

ζεύχθη δʼ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τʼ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῶι.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος· κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.

Translations (11)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 955 focus

Fest ward Dryas' im Zorn heftig entbrannter

Sohn, Edonisches Volks König, den Hohn büfsend,

durch Dionysos' Kraft umgürtet in engen Felsbanden.'

So enttriefet der wahnsinnigen Wuth furchtbar
920

wildaufschäumender Grimm; jener empfand's, daſs er den Gott

angriff, spottend im Wahnsinne, mit Hohnworten.

Denn gottentzückten Frauen wehrt'

er und dem Flammenschein der Nacht,

und reizt' euch, flötenfrohe Musen!
925
Str. 2.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 955 focus

Fué Fue encadenado también el irascible niño hijo de Driante y rey de los edones, quien, por su indole índo- le procaz, fué fue encerrado por Dióniso en pétrea cárcel; y así, la terrible y vigorosa violencia de su iracundia se desvanece gota a gota; reconoció él que en su furor había insultado a un dios con su ultrajante lengua. Quería, en verdad, acabar con las endemoniadas bacantes y con el báquico fuego, y ultrajaba a las musas amantes de las flautas.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 955 focus

Iugum accepit etiam impotens irae filius Dryantis , rex Edonum, quem Bacchus, ob infestam indolem, saxoso conclusit in carcere.

Adeo a furore destillare terribilem noxiamque poenam, adgnovit demum ille, qui rabiei petulantibus conviciis deum laesit. Enimvero entheas cohibuit feminas, sacrasque Bacchi exstinxit lampades, et tibiarum amantes irritavit Musas.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 955 focus

Against great Destiny may once rebel.
955

He too in darksome durance was compressed,

King of Edonians, Dryas’ hasty son,

In eyeless vault of stone

Immured by Dionysus’ hest,
960

All for a wrathful jest.

Fierce madness issueth in such fatal flower.

He found ’twas mad to taunt the Heavenly Power,
965

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 955 focus

Dryas' zornigen Sohn, Herrn der Edonen,¹

Als er wider den Gott frevelte voll Hohnlust,
935

Band Dionysos,

In felsstarrende Kluft ihn einzwängend.

So verbrauste des wahnwizigen Grimm's arge

Wildaufschäumende Kraft. Sener empfand's, daß er den Gott

Mit Hohnworten in wahnsinnigem Muth anfiel.
940

Denn gottentzückter Frauen Schwarm,

Des Bacchos Flammen wehrt' er keck,

Und reizt' euch, flötenfrohe Musen.²

Zweite Strophe.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 955 focus

The Thracian monarch, Dryas' hapless son,
955

Chained to a rock in to rment lay.

And breathed his angry soul away,

By wrath misguided, and by pride undone ;

Taught by the offended god to know
960

From foul reproach what evils flow ;

For he the rites profaned with slanderous tongue,

The holy flame he quenched, disturbed the song,

A.nd waked to wrath the Muses' tuneful throng.
965

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 955 focus

Asi también se vió encadenado el impetuoso hijo de Dryas, rey de los Edonios; por su violencia y maneras impetuosas fué encerrado por Baco en una prisión de piedra. Tales terribles venganzas suscita el furor. Él recono- ció al fin al dios á quien, en su insania, había ofendido con acerbas blasfemias: habiendo cohibido á sus sacerdotisas delirantes y apagado el fuego sacro, y ofendido á las musas, amantes de la armonía.

Estrofa 2.a

CORO

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 955 focus

Und gehascht ward zornig behend Dryas Sohn,

Der Edenen König in begeistertem Schimpf

Von Dionysos, von den stürzenden
995

Steinhaufen gedeket,

Den Wahnsinn weint’ er so fast aus,

Und den blühenden Zorn. Und kennen lernt’ er,

Im Wahnsinn tastend, den Gott mit schimpfender Zunge.

Denn stoken macht’ er die Weiber
1000

Des Gottes voll, und das evische Feuer

Und die flötenliebenden

Reizt er, die Musen.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 955 focus

And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of Bosporus, and 970 Thracian Salmydessus; where Ares, neighbour to the city, saw the accurst, blinding wound dealt to the two sons of Phineus by his fierce wife,—the wound that brought darkness to those vengeance-craving orbs, smitten with her bloody hands, smitten with her shuttle for a dagger.

2

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 955 focus

For this the slaves that lead her shall be taught

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 944-985 focus

Chorus

So too endured Danae in her beauty to change

the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
945

and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
950

955

Chorus

And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
955

That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
960

and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
965

966

Chorus

And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of Bosporus and the Thracian city Salmydessus,

where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
970

for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
975

977

Chorus

Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering

and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
980

running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
985

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-567-1 ζεύχθη ¹

mvp-comment-567-2 ὀξύχολος ²

mvp-comment-567-3 The

Ἠδωνοί

, or

Ἠδῶνες

( Thuc. 2.99 ), occupied in historical times the part of Thrace E. of the Strymon and W. of the Nestus. In earlier times they had dwelt further west, but had been driven eastward by the Macedonian conquest of Mygdonia.

mvp-comment-567-4 Dionysus, when he came from Asia with his new rites, was opposed by Lycurgus in Thrace, as by Pentheus at Thebes. The

Λυκούργεια

of Aeschylus is known from the schol. on Ar. Th. 135. This trilogy consisted of

Ἠδωνοί, Βασσαρίδες, Νεανίσκοι

, with

Λυκοῦργος

as satyric drama. In Il. 6.130 ff. Dionysus, pursued by Lycurgus, dives beneath the sea; Thetis receives him; and Zeus blinds Lycurgus.

mvp-comment-568-1 κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς ³ ὀργαῖς ⁴ κερτομίοις ⁵

mvp-comment-569-1 ἐκ Διονύσου ⁶

mvp-comment-569-2 πετρώδει … δεσμῷ ⁷

mvp-comment-569-3 κατάφαρκτος ⁸

mvp-comment-570-1 οὕτω ⁹

mvp-comment-570-2 ἀνθηρόν ¹⁰

mvp-comment-570-3 ἀποστάζει ¹¹

mvp-comment-571-1 ἐπέγνω τὸν θεόν, μανίαις ψαύων ¹²

mvp-comment-571-2 μανίαις ¹³

mvp-comment-571-3 ψαύων ¹⁴

mvp-comment-571-4 ἐν ¹⁵

mvp-comment-571-5 γλώσσαις ¹⁶

mvp-comment-572-1 παύεσκε ¹⁷

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐνθέους γυναῖκας ¹⁸

mvp-comment-572-3 εὔιον … πῦρ ¹⁹

mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας ²⁰

mvp-comment-573-2 save the nymph by changing her into a vine; and behind him stand his followers. At the extreme left are three Muses—Urania, with globe; Clio, with roll; Euterpè, prob. with flutes. (Zoega seems clearly right in thus explaining the three women: others have made them Moirae.)—The close relation of Dionysus with the Muses is marked by one of his Attic titles,

Μελπόμενος

( Paus. 1.2.5 ), as conversely Apollo had the title

Διονυσόδοτος

(id. 1. 31.4). Muses were sometimes said to have nursed him. (Cp. Welcker, Götterl. 2. 611.)

mvp-comment-573-3 The monuments relating to the myth of Lycurgus have been critically treated by Michaelis ( Annal. Inst. 1872, pp. 248— 270). The Italian vase-paintings follow a version different from that of Soph. , viz. that the frenzy of Lycurgus was wreaked on his own son and wife. A large Neapolitan vase gives two pictures: in one, we see his murderous rage; in the other, Dionysus sits on his throne in calm majesty, stroking his panther.

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

944-987. mvp-comment-537-1 The chorus, in the manner of Pindar, moralise on the fate of Antigone through examples drawn from the circle of mythology and legend; and thus suggest the same cold comfort as in their mention of Niobe. The effect of this ode is to repress the excitement and solemnize the thoughts of the spectator. 'Danaë, though of royal lineage, and entrusted with the golden shower, was bound by all-constraining destiny in her brazen cell. 'Bound, too, in a prison of rock, was Lycurgus, who provoked the God. He knew his madness when it was too late. And on the Thracian promontory Phineus sons, blinded by their father's wife (Idothea), bewailed their rejected mother Cleopatra's hapless lot, who, descended from an ancient line, and endowed with swiftness by her divine sire, was notwithstanding overtaken by the long-lived fates.' Danae and Cleopatra were, like Antigone, of royal birth, and, like Antigone, were bound in a living tomb. So also was the son of Dryas, himself a king: and this, in his case, was the penalty of an impetuous and defiant spirit. Sophocles seems to have followed one version of the obscure and variable legend of Phineus, according to which Cleopatra did not die, but was rejected by Phineus for Idothea, and imprisoned in a cave, from which she was afterwards released by Heracles. The sons were blinded by their step-mother. The first strophe and antistrophe are choriambic with an iambic close; the second, logaoedic. The choriambi here were probably chanted slowly, so as to have a weighty, solemn effect. The scheme is as follows: a'. First strophe and antistrophe. IILUCI LUCILー LUCILIITUCICートに IICClluclトー IIICCILUCIトに ICICICI KLCICICI CトートUICIK β'. Second strophe and antistrophe. UCCTCCICCI IICCICCII!یں ILU TUCI くいくいトCICIK Cトートしーーー ―トビトCICIK CÚCCICICICC

954. mvp-comment-544-1 κελαιναί The Epic νῆες μέλαιναι: i. e. Looking dark against the sea and sky.

955-957. mvp-comment-545-1 The punishment of Lycurgus was the subject of an Aeschylean trilogy. It was variously related. Sophocles chooses the version of the story that suits his purpose. For the earliest description of the crime, see Il. 6. 130-140.

955. mvp-comment-546-1 ζεύχθη resumes κατεζεύχθη, supr. 947.

955. mvp-comment-546-2 ὀξύχολος The very probable conjecture of Scaliger for ὀξυχόλως.

955. mvp-comment-546-3 παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος So Pind. O1. 8. 31, παῖς ὁ Λατούς.

956. mvp-comment-547-1 κερτομίοις όργαῖς Dative of the cause.

957. mvp-comment-548-1 ἐκ Διονύσου By the will of Dionysus. Cp. infr. 1219.

958-961. mvp-comment-549-1 So dire is the excess of rage that flows from madness. He learned at length that it was in madness that he provoked the God with biting speech.' The emphatic reivos applies the γνώμη to the case of Lycurgus. There is a stress on μανίαις.

959. mvp-comment-550-1 τᾶς μανίας Genitive of derivation, partly governed by ἀπό in comp.

959. mvp-comment-550-2 ἀποστάζει For the metaphorical use, cp. Aesch. Ag. 178, στάζει ἐν θ᾽ ὕπνῳ πρὸ καρδίας | μνησιπήμων πόνος. Others render, trickles away, i.e. comes to nought. But οὕτω is more naturally joined with the adjectives, whose position shows that they are emphatic, than with the verb.

960. mvp-comment-551-1 ἀνθηρόν 'Blooming, and so reaching its height: cp. Tr. 1089, ἤνθηκεν, ἐξώρμηκεν. A fury so over-powering, i.e. Leading inevitably to such calamitous issues.

960. mvp-comment-551-2 ἐπέγνω He recognised afterwards, i.e. when punished.

960. mvp-comment-551-3 μανίαις Dative of manner, expressing the predicate, quasi ἐν μανίαις. Essay on Language $ 14. pp. 20, 21. The v. r. μανίας (acc. plur.) is not so good.

961. mvp-comment-552-1 ψαύων In the rather unusual sense of Tempting, Provoking' (= έρε θίζων, cp. καθάπτεσθαι), and hence used, πρὸς τὸ σημαινόμενον, with the accusative. For the language of this passage, cp. Plat. Polit. 310 D, ἐξανθεῖν παντάπασι μανίαις: ib. 273 D, τελευτώντος δ᾽ ἐξανθεῖ τοῦ χρόνου : Legg. 6. 783 Α, διαπυρωτάτους . . μανίαις : ib. 9. 881 Β, μὴ μανίαις ἐχόμενος. And for the construction of κεῖνος.. θεόν, cp. Pind. Pyth. 8. 12, τὰν οὐδὲ Πορφυρίων μάθεν παρ' αἶσαν ἐξερεθίζων. For ἐν, of the instrument, see Essay on Language § 19. p. 27.

964. mvp-comment-553-1 The Bacchic fire,' i.e. The lighted torches of the Bacchanalian rout. Cp. O. T. 214: Eurip. Bacch. 146.

965. mvp-comment-554-1 Μούσας

Inter Bacchi comites a Diodoro 4. 4, recensentur Musae.

(Musgrave.) They are associated by Plato in the Laws, B. 2, p. 672 C. The Muses are here lovers of the flute, i.e. of the Phrygian orgiastic music.

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