mvp-comment-129-1 ἰὼ ξένοι ¹

mvp-comment-130-1 κἀκ ποίας πάτρας ² ναυτίλῳ πλάτῃ ³ κατέσχετ’ ⁴

mvp-comment-130-2 But

in v. 220 and in 222 cannot both be wholly sound. The first might easily be corrected to (with Wecklein). It is slightly more probable, how ever, that the second arose from the eye glancing back. Thus in Ant. 831 L has (for ), due to in 828. In v. 222 we might conjecture . (For in the 2nd place of the senarius, cp. O. T. 630. ) The series of questions in vv. 220— 222 would then correspond with the Homeric ; ( Od. 1. 170. )

mvp-comment-131-1 κατέσχετ’ ⁵

mvp-comment-131-2 222 On the grounds given in n. on 220, I conjecture πόλεως ⁶ πάτρας ⁷

mvp-comment-132-1 τύχοιμ’ ἂν εἰπών ⁸

mvp-comment-132-2 σχῆμα ⁹ σχῆμα ὑπάρχει ¹⁰ Ἑλλάδος στολῆς ¹¹

mvp-comment-133-1 ὄκνῳ ¹²

mvp-comment-133-2 ἀπηγριωμένον ¹³

mvp-comment-134-1 κακούμενον ¹⁴ καλούμενον ¹⁵

mvp-comment-135-1 ἀλλ’ ¹⁶

mvp-comment-135-2 ὑμῶν ἁμαρτεῖν τοῦτό γ’ ¹⁷ ὑμῶν ¹⁸ τοῦτο ¹⁹ τοῦτό γ’ ²⁰ τοῦδέ γ’ ²¹

mvp-comment-136-1 ἀλλ’ ²²

mvp-comment-136-2 οὕνεκα ²³

mvp-comment-137-1 φεῦ ²⁴

mvp-comment-137-2 τὸ καὶ λαβεῖν ²⁵

mvp-comment-137-3 τοιοῦδ’ ἀνδρὸς ²⁶

mvp-comment-137-4 ἐν χρόνῳ μακρῷ ²⁷

mvp-comment-138-1 προσέσχε ²⁸ προσήγαγεν ²⁹ προσέσχε ³⁰

mvp-comment-139-1 τίς ἀνέμων ὁ φίλτατος ³¹

mvp-comment-139-2 γέγωνε ³²

mvp-comment-139-3 ὅπως εἰδῶ ³³

mvp-comment-140-1 γένος ³⁴

mvp-comment-141-1 Σκύρου ³⁵

mvp-comment-142-1 Νεοπτόλεμος ³⁶ οἶσθα δὴ τὸ πᾶν ³⁷

mvp-comment-143-1 ὦ φίλης χθονός ³⁸ παῖ ³⁹

mvp-comment-144-1 θρέμμα Λυκομήδους ⁴⁰ στόλῳ ⁴¹ προσέσχες … γῆν ⁴²

mvp-comment-145-1 ἐξ Ἰλίου τοι δὴ ⁴³ τοι ⁴⁴ δὴ ⁴⁵ τοι δὴ ⁴⁶ )γὼ δὴ ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-146-1 οὐ γὰρ δὴ σύ γ’ ⁴⁸ κατ’ ἀρχὴν τοῦ … στόλου ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-147-1 ἦ γὰρ ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-147-2 πόνου ⁵¹

mvp-comment-148-1 οὐ γὰρ ⁵²

mvp-comment-148-2 οἶσθα κάτοιδ’ ⁵³

mvp-comment-148-3 πῶς … κάτοιδ’ ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-149-1 ὄνοὐ ἄῤ ⁵⁵ οὐ τοὔνομ’ ⁵⁶ οὐδ’ ⁵⁷

mvp-comment-149-2 διωλλύμην ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-150-1 ἴσθι με ὡς μηδὲν εἰδότ’ ⁵⁹ ὡς ⁶⁰ μηδὲν ⁶¹ ὡς ⁶²

219. mvp-comment-151-1 ἰὼ ξένοι] Cp. the short lines in Aj. 333, 336, 339; Ο. Τ. 1468, 1471, 1475; О. С. 315, 318; Aesch. Ag. 1214, 1315.

220. mvp-comment-152-1 ναυτίλῳ πλάτῃ] The gloss in L2, in which this reading is mixed up with an explanation of πλάτῃ, viz. τῇ κώπῃ, tends to confirm the evidence of A. Cp. Hom. Od. 1. 171, ὁπποίης δ᾽ ἐπὶ νηὸς ἀφίκεο, πῶς δέ σε ναῦται | ἤγαγον εἰς Ἰθάκην ; Fr. 394, ναύκληρον πλάτην.

222. mvp-comment-153-1 The transposition of ὑμᾶς is necessary for the rhythm.

223. mvp-comment-154-1 τύχοιμ᾽ ἂν εἰπών] 'Shall I be right in naming you? Cp. El. 663, ἐπεικάζων κυρῶ, and note.

224. mvp-comment-155-1 This beautiful line is bracketed by Nauck, on the ground that Philoctetes would not be so imprudent as to reveal his Hellenic sympathies at once! ὑπάρχει] 'Is to begin with, i. e. This affords a presumption that ye are Hellenes.

225. mvp-comment-156-1 ὄκνῳ is to be taken with the whole sentence, and not with δείσαντες only.

228. mvp-comment-157-1 * κακούμενον] For the added participle, see Essay on L. § 36, 5. καλούμενον may be explained to mean, 'Imploring you.' So Herm. Cp. infr. 1264, τί μ᾽ ἐκκαλεῖσθε; Aesch. Ch. 216, καὶ τίνα σύνοισθά μοι καλουμένῃ βροτῶν; But the slight correction κακούμενον is on the whole more probable. Cp. infr. 471, ἔρημον ἐν κακοῖσι τοῖσδ᾽, οἷοῖς ὁρᾷς. Many other changes have been proposed, of which Seyffert's, καὶ φίλων τητώμενον, most deserves mention.

230-231. mvp-comment-158-1 'For it is not meet that I should fail to receive this from you or you from me.' The strangers have a claim on Philoctetes as well as he on them.

233. mvp-comment-159-1 τοῦτο .. μαθεῖν] The words of Philoctetes in 222-4 had clearly indicated this desire.

234. mvp-comment-160-1 φώνημα] Cp. supr. φωνήσατ'. No utterance could be more welcome. φεῦ .. μακρῷ] 'Ah me! the bliss of being spoken to by one who is a Greek this once in all that length of time.' φεῦ is not merely the interjection of astonishment, but rather expresses a mingled feeling that is too deep for words, the effect of joy coming in suddenly upon sorrow and weariness. The momentariness of the aor. λαβεῖν is expressive.

235. mvp-comment-161-1 τοιοῦδε] Sc. Ἕλληνος. For the vagueness of this, cp. Aj. 330, οἱ τοιοίδε (sc. οἱ μανικῶς διακείμενοι).

236ff. mvp-comment-162-1 Cp. Pind. Pyth. 4. 70, τίς γὰρ ἀρχὰ δέξατο ναυτιλίας; For the Greek manner of putting first what is last in time, see Essay on L. § 41. p. 78, B, b. The exuberant speech of Philoctetes, in his delight at seeing Greeks after ten years' silence, is well contrasted with the embarrassed reserve of Neoptolemus. Cp. El. 1232 foll. He shows, in the address ὦ τέκνον, that his confidence is already won.

236. mvp-comment-163-1 προσέσχε is causative. See Essay on L. § 53. p. 98. προσήγαγε, 'Drew you this way;' προσέσχε, 'Brought you to the shore.'

237. mvp-comment-164-1 ὁρμή] 'Cause of departure,' nearly = στόλος, infr. 244. τίς ἀνέμων ὁ φίλτατος] 'What wind, of all most dear?' For the extravagant language, cp. Shak. Cymb. 3. 2, 'Say, and speak thick,.. how far it is To this same blessed Milford, and, by the way, Tell me how Wales was made so happy as To inherit such a haven but first of all,' etc.

239. mvp-comment-165-1 Cp. Plat. Soph. 216 A, τὸ μὲν γένος ἐξ Ἐλέας.

240. mvp-comment-166-1 αὐδῶμαι] 'I am named.' Cp. Trach. 1106, ὁ τοῦ κατ᾿ ἄστρα Ζηνὸς αὐδηθεὶς γόνος; Tennyson's Elaine, Whence comest thou, my guest, and by what name Livest between the lips?'

241. mvp-comment-167-1 Some editors prefer οἶσθ᾽ ἤδη. But the emphatic word of time is out of place. οἶσθα δή is simpler and better. There, you know all.'

242. mvp-comment-168-1 φίλης χθονός] The genitive, as τῆς περιρρύτου Σκύρου, supr. 239. In the absence of Achilles, Neoptolemus was brought up in the house of his maternal grandfather Lycomedes, in the island of Scyros, where Deidameia, Lycomedes' daughter, had borne him to Achilles. Scyros was near Euboea and the Melian country, and it is imagined that there had been frequent intercourse between them.

243. mvp-comment-169-1 τίνι στόλῳ] 'On what enterprise or expedition?' Cp. Xen. Anab. 3. 2, ὁ στόλος ἐλέγετο εἶναι εἰς Πισίδας.

245. mvp-comment-170-1 τοι δή] · Well, then, if you wish to know' (δή), 'I tell you' (τοι). Neoptolemus affects surprise at the question.

246-247. mvp-comment-171-1 Surely we had not you with us on board the fleet when we first set out on the expedition to Troy.'

248. mvp-comment-172-1 τοῦδε τοῦ πόνου] ‘This labour, in which I and others have been engaged.' For the pronominal expression, cp. El. 541, ἧς ὁ πλοῦς ὅδ᾽ ἦν χάριν.

249. mvp-comment-173-1 The craving for sympathy, so prominently shown in this and the following lines, is the point in Philoctetes' character which most lays him open to the design of Neoptolemus, and is also most calculated to move his pity and that of the spectators.

250. mvp-comment-174-1 ὅν γ᾽ εἶδον] 'One whom I never yet beheld.' For this use of γε, cp. Εl. 923, πῶς δ᾽ οὐκ ἐγὼ κάτοιδ᾽, ἅ γ᾽ εἶδον ἐμφανῶς;

251. mvp-comment-175-1 οὐδ᾽ ὄνομά *γ'] It is uncertain whether this correction should be admitted (Erf. conjectured οὐδ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἄρ᾽) or οὐδ᾽ οὔνομ' should be read from the inferior MSS. The latter is rhythmically smoother, but contains an Ionicism which does not occur elsewhere. The addition of τῶν ἐμῶν with the second word has a pathetic emphasis.

252. mvp-comment-176-1 διωλλύμην] The imperfect means, 'I have been perishing all this while.'