Sophocles Philoctetes 306

mvp-comment-191-1 ἐλέγχω … στένω ¹

mvp-comment-192-1 οἶμαι μὲν ²

mvp-comment-192-2 καὶ τὰ ς’ ³

mvp-comment-193-1 τοιγαροῦν ⁴ αὖθις πάλιν ⁵

mvp-comment-193-2 ὅτῳ ⁶

mvp-comment-194-1 ποικιλοστόλῳ ⁷ ποικιλοστόμῳ ⁸

mvp-comment-195-1 δῖός τ’ Ὀδυσσεὺς ⁹

mvp-comment-195-2 χὡ τροφεὺς ¹⁰

mvp-comment-196-1 εἴτ’ ἄρ’ οὖν ¹¹

mvp-comment-196-2 ἀληθὲς ¹² λέγοντες ¹³

mvp-comment-196-3 γίγνοιτ’ ¹⁴

mvp-comment-197-1 ἄλλον ἢ )μ’ ¹⁵ ἢ )μ’ ¹⁶

mvp-comment-198-1 οὐ πολὺν ¹⁷

mvp-comment-198-2 Instead of

, we might well prefer, with Blaydes, , were it not that palaeographically it is so improbable. And for where might be expected, cp. O. T. 1387 | , n. The repetition of με ¹⁸

mvp-comment-199-1 οὐ γὰρ εἰδόμην ¹⁹ εἰδόμην ²⁰

mvp-comment-200-1 ἔπειτα μέντοι ²¹

mvp-comment-200-2 χὡ λόγος καλὸς προσῆν ²² ὁ λόγος ²³ προσῆν ²⁴

mvp-comment-200-3 εἰ … αἱρήσοιμ’ ²⁵

mvp-comment-200-4 τἀπὶ Τροίᾳ πέργαμ’ ²⁶ ἐπί ²⁷

mvp-comment-200-5 ἰών ²⁸

mvp-comment-201-1 πλέοντί μοι ²⁹

mvp-comment-201-2 κἀγὼ ³⁰

mvp-comment-201-3 πικρὸν Σίγειον ³¹

mvp-comment-201-4 οὐρίῳ πλάτῃ ³²

mvp-comment-201-5 κατηγόμην ³³

mvp-comment-202-1 ὀμνύντες ³⁴ στρατός ³⁵

mvp-comment-202-2 ζῶντ’ Ἀχ. πάλιν ³⁶

mvp-comment-203-1 ἔκειτ’ ³⁷

mvp-comment-203-2 )δάκρυσα ³⁸

mvp-comment-203-3 οὐ μακρῷ χρόνῳ ³⁹

mvp-comment-204-1 ὡς εἰκὸς ἦν ⁴⁰ φίλους ⁴¹

mvp-comment-204-2 τά τ’ ἄλλ’ ὅσ’ ἦν ⁴²

mvp-comment-205-1 τλημονέστατον λόγον ⁴³

mvp-comment-206-1 πάρεστί σοι ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-206-2 Λαέρτου ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-207-1 δακρύσας ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-207-2 ἐξανίσταμαι ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-207-3 ὀργῇ ⁴⁸ βαρείᾳ ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-207-4 κᾳταλγήσας ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-208-1 ὦ σχέτλἰ ⁵¹ ἦ )τολμήσατ’ ⁵²

mvp-comment-208-2 πρὶν μαθεῖν ἐμοῦ ⁵³

mvp-comment-209-1 ὁ δ’ εἶπ’ Ὀδυσσεύς ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-209-2 ὢν κυρεῖ ⁵⁵ ἦν κυρῶν ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-209-3 τάδε ⁵⁷ δεδράκας’ ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-210-1 παρών ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-211-1 ἤρασσον ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-211-2 κακοῖς τοῖς πᾶσιν ⁶¹

mvp-comment-211-3 οὐδὲν ἐνδεὲς ποιούμενος ⁶²

mvp-comment-211-4 εἰ … ἀφαιρήσοιτο ⁶³

mvp-comment-212-1 ἐνθάδ’ ἥκων ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-212-2 οὐ δύσοργος ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-212-3 πρὸς ἁξήκουσεν ⁶⁶ δηχθείς ⁶⁷ ἠμείψατο ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-212-4 ἃ ἐξήκουσεν ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-213-1 ἐπειδὴ καὶ λέγεις ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-213-2 οὐ μήποτ’ ⁷¹ τὴν Σκῦρον ⁷²

mvp-comment-213-3 ἐκπλεύσῃς ⁷³

mvp-comment-213-4 382 ff. The words ἀκούσας κἀξονειδισθείς ⁷⁴ κακά ⁷⁵ κἀξονειδίσας ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-213-5 πρὸς οἴκους ⁷⁷

mvp-comment-213-6 τητώμενος ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-213-7 κἀκ κακῶν ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-214-1 τοὺς ἐν τέλει ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-214-2 πᾶσα ⁸¹ σύμπας ⁸²

mvp-comment-214-3 ἔστι … τῶν ἡγουμένων ⁸³

mvp-comment-214-4 στρατός ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-214-5 οἱ δ’ ἀκοσμοῦντες βροτῶν ⁸⁵

mvp-comment-214-6 διδασκάλων λόγοισι ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-215-1 λόγος λέλεκται πᾶς ⁸⁷

mvp-comment-215-2 Ἀτρείδας ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-215-3 φίλος ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-216-1 Mindful of their young chief's precept—

(149)—the Chorus seize this moment in order to deepen the impression left on the mind of Philoctetes. It was in the land of the Trojans—often called ‘Phrygians’ —that Neoptolemus was wronged by the Atreidae. ‘Then and there’—say the Chorus—‘we invoked the most awful deity of the land, the great Earth Mother, the Phrygian Cybele—to punish our prince's wrong.’ The interposition of the Chorus is admirably effective for the purpose of making their master's indignation appear genuine.

mvp-comment-216-2 This strophe, to which vv. 507—518 form the antistrophe, is a

, or ‘dance-song’ ( O. T. 1086 n.). The dochmiacs of which it is mainly composed (see Metrical Analysis) are accompanied by animated movement, expressive of the lively resentment which these memories suggest.

mvp-comment-216-3 From a mythological point of view the verses are of singular interest. The attributes given to the goddess belong to three groups. (1)

recognises her in the primary character of an Elemental power. (2) identifies her with Rhea. (3) , and the mention of the Pactolus, present her as the specially Phrygian Cybele. But these three characters are completely fused in the unity of the .

mvp-comment-217-1 ὀρεστέρα ⁹⁰ παμβῶτι ⁹¹

mvp-comment-217-2 μᾶτερ αὐτοῦ Διός ⁹²

mvp-comment-218-1 Πακτωλὸν ⁹³

mvp-comment-218-2 εὔχρυσον ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-219-1 κἀκεῖ ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-219-2 ἐπηυδώμαν ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-219-3 Ἀτρειδᾶν ὕβρις πᾶς’ ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-220-1 τὰ πάτρια ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-221-1 ἰὼ ⁹⁹ μάκαιρα ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-221-2 ταυροκτόνων ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-221-3 λεόντων ἔφεδρε ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-222-1 σέβας ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-222-2 We should not, then, change σέβας ¹⁰⁴ γέρας ¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-223-1 σύμβολον … λύπης ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-224-1 προσᾴδεθ’ ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-224-2 ταῦτ’ … ἔργα ¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-225-1 ἂν … θιγόντα ¹⁰⁹ πανουργίας ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-225-2 ἀφ’ ἧς μηδὲν … ποεῖν ¹¹¹ μέλλοι ¹¹²

mvp-comment-225-3 μηδὲν ¹¹³

mvp-comment-225-4 ἐς τέλος ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-225-5 ποεῖν ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-226-1 ὁ μείζων ¹¹⁶ οὐκ ἦν ἔτι ζῶν ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-227-1 ἀλλ’ ἦ ¹¹⁸ ἦ γάρ ¹¹⁹ πῶς εἶπας ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-228-1 ὡς μηκέτ’ ὄντα ¹²¹

mvp-comment-229-1 οἴμοι τάλας ¹²² ἀλλ’ οὐχ ¹²³

mvp-comment-230-1 οὑμπολητὸς Σισύφου Λαερτίῳ ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-230-2 The legend is not Homeric, but is already known to Aesch. (fr. 169), and is congenial to the spirit in which the dramatists often conceive Odysseus; cp. Soph. Ai. 190 , fr. 143 (

| ): I. A. 524, Cycl. 104 : Lycophron 344 ( , ‘crafty fox’): Ov. Met. 13. 31

sanguine cretus | Sisyphio, furtisque et fraude simillimus illi.

mvp-comment-230-3 With regard to the order of words, note:—(1)

= , the simple gen. of origin being placed as would have been; though usually such a simple gen. comes immediately after the art. (as Ai. 450 ). (2) merely supplements , and hence can be placed as though it were an afterthought; the principle is the same as in O. C. 1514 : cp. n. on O. T. 1245. —The genit. Λαερτίου ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-231-1 ἔδει ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-232-1 καὶ μέγα θάλλοντες ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-233-1 τί δ’ ¹²⁸ ὠ ¹²⁹ οὐ ¹³⁰ αὖ ¹³¹ οὐ ¹³² τί δ’ ¹³³ τί δ’ ὃς ¹³⁴ ὃς ¹³⁵ ὁ ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-233-2 παλαιός ¹³⁷ καί … τε ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-233-3 τά γε κείνων κακά ¹³⁹ γε ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-233-4 ἐξήρυκε ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-234-1 Ἀντίλοχος ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-234-2 ὃς παρῆν γόνος ¹⁴³ ὅσπερ ἦν γόνος ¹⁴⁴ ὅς γ’ ἔτ’ ἦν ¹⁴⁵ ὅς ποτ’ ἦν ¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-235-1 δὔ αὖ τώδ’ ἄνδρ’ ἔλεξας ¹⁴⁷ δὔ αὖ τώδ’ ἐξέδειξας ¹⁴⁸ ἔλεξας ¹⁴⁹ δὔ αὔτως δείν’ ἔλεξας ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-235-2 As to the reading δὔ αὕτως δείν’ ἔλεξας ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-235-3 δὔ … ἄνδρε ¹⁵² ὀλωλότοιν ¹⁵³ οἵδε ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-235-4 ἂν ἠθέλης’ ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-236-1 σκοπεῖν ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-236-2 οἵδε ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-237-1 Ὀδυσσεὺς δ’ ἔστιν αὖ κἀνταῦθ’ ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-238-1 αὐτὸν ¹⁵⁹ αὐδᾶσθαι ¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-239-1 παλαιστὴς ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-239-2 ἐμποδίζονται ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-240-1 θεῶν ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-240-2 ποῦ γὰρ ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-240-3 σοι ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-240-4 τὰ φίλτατα ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-241-1 λόγῳ … ἐν βραχεῖ ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-241-2 τοῦτ’ ¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-241-3 πόλεμος ¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-241-4 ἑκὼν ¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-242-1 κατ’ αὐτὸ τοῦτό γε ¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-243-1 φωτὸς ¹⁷² κυρεῖ ¹⁷³ τί ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-244-1 ποίου δὲ τούτου ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-244-2 ἐρεῖς ¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-244-3 Brunck's conjecture, τοῦτο ¹⁷⁷ τούτου ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-245-1 Θερσίτης ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-246-1 ὃς οὐκ ἂν εἵλετ’ ¹⁸⁰ ὅπου μηδεὶς ἐῴη ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-246-2 Sophocles here reproduces the two salient traits of the Homeric Thersites: (1) he is irrepressible: Il. 2. 212

, | : (2) he disgusts those whom his bluster was intended to amuse or flatter; ib. 222 | .— τοῦτον οἶσθ’ ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-247-1 αὐτόν ¹⁸³ αὐτός ¹⁸⁴ νιν ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-248-1 ἔμελλ’ ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-248-2 ἐπεὶ οὐδέν ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-248-3 περιστέλλουσιν ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-249-1 τὰ πανοῦργα ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-249-2 παλιντριβῆ ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-249-3 ἀναστρέφοντες ¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-249-4 τὰ δὲ ¹⁹² τὰ χρήστ’ ¹⁹³ ἀποστέλλους’ ¹⁹⁴ προυσελοῦς’ ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-250-1 ποῦ χρὴ τίθεσθαι ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-250-2 ποῦ δ’ αἰνεῖν ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-250-3 ὅταν ¹⁹⁸ ἐπαινῶν ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-250-4 Theognis, in a similar strain, asks how a mortal is to revere the gods when he sees good men afflicted and bad men prosperous (743—752).

mvp-comment-251-1 ἐγὼ μὲν ²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-251-2 Οἰταίου ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-252-1 τηλόθεν … εἰσορῶν ²⁰²

mvp-comment-252-2 φυλάξομαι ²⁰³

mvp-comment-253-1 ὅπου ²⁰⁴ τούτους ²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-253-2 δειλὸς ²⁰⁶ δεινὸς ²⁰⁷ δεινός ²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-254-1 Σκῦρος ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-254-2 ἐξαρκοῦσά μοι … ὥστε ²¹⁰ τέρπεσθαι δόμῳ ²¹¹

mvp-comment-255-1 χαῖρε ²¹² ὡς μέγιστα ²¹³

mvp-comment-255-2 μεταστήσειαν ²¹⁴

mvp-comment-255-3 ὡς αὐτὸς θέλεις ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-256-1 πλοῦν ἡμὶν εἴκῃ ²¹⁶ πλοῦν ²¹⁷ πλεῖν ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-257-1 καιρὸς ²¹⁹ καλεῖ ²²⁰

mvp-comment-258-1 πλοῦν … σκοπεῖν ²²¹

mvp-comment-258-2 μὴ )ξ ἀπόπτου ²²²

mvp-comment-259-1 πρός νύν σε πατρὸς ²²³ πρός τ’ εἴ τι ²²⁴

mvp-comment-260-1 ἱκέτης ²²⁵ ἱκνοῦμαι ²²⁶

mvp-comment-261-1 οἵοις ὁρᾷς … ἐνναίοντα ²²⁷ ὅσοισί τ’ ἐξήκουσας ²²⁸

mvp-comment-262-1 ἐν παρέργῳ θοῦ με ²²⁹

mvp-comment-262-2 ἐν παρέργῳ ²³⁰

mvp-comment-262-3 δυσχέρεια ²³¹

mvp-comment-263-1 ἔξοιδα ²³²

mvp-comment-263-2 φορήματος ²³³

mvp-comment-264-1 τό τ’ αἰσχρὸν ²³⁴ εὐκλεές ²³⁵ εὐκλεές ²³⁶ τοῖσι γενναίοισι ²³⁷

mvp-comment-265-1 ἐκλιπόντι τοῦτ’ ²³⁸

mvp-comment-265-2 ὄνειδος ²³⁹ οὐ καλόν ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-266-1 πλεῖστον ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-266-2 μόλω )γὼ ²⁴²

mvp-comment-267-1 ἴθ’ ²⁴³

mvp-comment-267-2 ἡμέρας … μιᾶς ²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-268-1 τόλμησον ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-268-2 ὅπῃ ²⁴⁶ ὅποι ²⁴⁷ ἐμβαλοῦ ²⁴⁸ ἄγων ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-269-1 ἀντλίαν ²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-269-2 πρῷραν … πρύμνην ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-269-3 ὅπου ²⁵² ὅποι ²⁵³ υ ²⁵⁴ ι ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-269-4 μέλλω … ἀλγυνεῖν ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-270-1 ἱκεσίου ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-270-2 γόνασι ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-271-1 ἀκράτωρ ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-272-1 ἢ πρὸς οἶκον τὸν σὸν ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-272-2 τὰ Χαλκώδοντος Εὐβοίας σταθμά ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-272-3 Schneidewin remarks that Philoctetes, the former comrade of Heracles, might naturally name Chalcodon, who had been the companion of Heracles in an expedition against the Eleans ( Paus. 8. 15. 6 ). But that was merely a local Arcadian myth; and Pausanias finds it inconsistent with the better-known Theban tradition, according to which Chalcodon was slain by Amphitryon in a war between the Euboeans and Thebans (9. 19. 3). At any rate the Attic poet might think of the Attic legend, according to which Theseus had sent his sons for protection to Chalcodon's son Elephenor, before retiring from Athens to Scyros ( Plut. Thes. 35 ).

mvp-comment-273-1 εἰς Οἴτην ²⁶²

mvp-comment-274-1 Τραχινίαν … δειράδα ²⁶³

mvp-comment-274-2 All MSS. have δειράδα καὶ τὸν ²⁶⁴ δεράδα ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-274-3 I am more disposed to think that δειράδα ²⁶⁶ καὶ τὸν ²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-274-4 εὔροον ²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-274-5 Like the Homeric

, the epithet refers simply to the beauty of the river, not to that swiftness ( ) from which it takes its name ( Il. 16. 176 : Lucan 6. 366 Ferit amne citato | Maliacas Spercheus aquas). Rising at the foot of Typhrestus, and fed by affluents from Othrys and Oeta, the Spercheius has a considerable volume of water even in the hot season (Tozer, Geo. of Greece, p. 81).

mvp-comment-275-1 ὃν ²⁶⁹ δέδοικ’ ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-275-2 παλαιὸν ²⁷¹ ἐξ ὅτου ²⁷² παλαἴ ἂν ²⁷³

mvp-comment-276-1 μή μοι βεβήκῃ ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-276-2 τοῖς ἱγμένοις ²⁷⁵ ἔστελλον ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-277-1 αὐτόστολον πέμψαντα ²⁷⁷ αὐτόστολον ²⁷⁸ πέμψαντα ²⁷⁹ ἐκσῶσαι ²⁸⁰ πλεύσαντα ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-277-2 δόμους ²⁸² δόμοις ²⁸³

mvp-comment-277-3 497 ff. After τὰ τῶν διακόνων ²⁸⁴ ποιούμενοι ²⁸⁵ τὸ ²⁸⁶ τὰ ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-277-4 ὡς εἰκός ²⁸⁸ οἶμαι ²⁸⁹ οἴμοι ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-277-5 ἐν σμικρῷ ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-277-6 μέρος ²⁹² μέρει ²⁹³

mvp-comment-277-7 ἤπειγον ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-278-1 πομπόν τε καὐτὸν ἄγγελον ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-278-2 ἥκω ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-279-1 δεινὰ κἀπικινδύνως … κεῖται ²⁹⁷ παθεῖν ²⁹⁸ παθεῖν μὲν εὖ, παθεῖν δὲ θάτερα ²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-279-2 θάτερα ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-280-1 ἐκτὸς ὄντα ³⁰¹ τὰ δείν’ ὁρᾶν ³⁰²

mvp-comment-281-1 εὖ ζῇ ³⁰³

mvp-comment-281-2 τὸν βίον ³⁰⁴ λάθῃ ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-282-1 : antistrophe to 391—402. The pity expressed by the Chorus may well be sincere; but in this utterance of it, their first aim is to aid their master's design. Verse 510 shows this.

mvp-comment-282-2 πόνων ἆθλα ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-282-3 οἷα ³⁰⁷ οἷα ³⁰⁸ ἅσσα ³⁰⁹ τύχοι ³¹⁰ λάχοι ³¹¹

mvp-comment-283-1 πικρούς ³¹²

mvp-comment-284-1 ἐγὼ μὲν ³¹³ πορεύσαιμ’ ἂν ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-284-2 τὸ κείνων κακὸν ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-284-3 μετατιθέμενος ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-284-4 ἐπιμέμονεν ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-285-1 εὐστόλου ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-286-1 τὰν θεῶν νέμεσιν ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-287-1 νῦν μὲν … ὅταν δὲ ³²⁰

mvp-comment-287-2 εὐχερὴς ³²¹ τις ³²² παρῇς ³²³

mvp-comment-288-1 τῆς νόσου ³²⁴ πλησθῇς· ξυνουσίᾳ ³²⁵

mvp-comment-288-2 αὑτὸς τοῖς λόγοις τούτοις ³²⁶

mvp-comment-289-1 οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅπως ³²⁷

mvp-comment-290-1 ἀλλὰ … μέντοι ³²⁸

mvp-comment-290-2 αἰσχρὰ ³²⁹

mvp-comment-290-3 σοῦ γέ μ’ ³³⁰ σοῦ γ’ ἔμ’ ³³¹

mvp-comment-290-4 πρὸς τὸ καίριον ³³²

mvp-comment-290-5 πονεῖν ³³³

mvp-comment-291-1 ὁρμάσθω ³³⁴ ταχύς ³³⁵ χἡ ναῦς ³³⁶

mvp-comment-291-2 ἀπαρνηθήσεται ³³⁷

mvp-comment-292-1 μόνον ³³⁸

mvp-comment-292-2 βουλοίμεσθα ³³⁹

mvp-comment-293-1 ὦ φίλτατον μὲν ³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-293-2 πῶς ἂν … γενοίμην ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-294-1 ἴωμεν ³⁴² ἴωμεν ³⁴³ ἴωμεν ³⁴⁴ εἰσοίκησιν ³⁴⁵ προσκύσαντε ³⁴⁶ εἰς οἴκησιν ³⁴⁷ προσκύσαντε ³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-294-2 ὡς … καὶ ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-295-1 ἀφ’ ὧν ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-295-2 διέζων ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-296-1 οἶμαι γὰρ ³⁵²

mvp-comment-296-2 μόνην ³⁵³ μόνον ³⁵⁴ τάδε ³⁵⁵ θέαν λαβόντα ³⁵⁶ τλῆναι ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-297-1 προὔμαθον ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-298-1 ἐπίσχετον ³⁵⁹ μάθωμεν ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-298-2 ἀλλόθρους ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-298-3 ὧν μαθόντες ³⁶²

mvp-comment-298-4 αὖθις ³⁶³ εἴσιτον ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-298-5 542 Odysseus said that he would send back the

, disguised as a merchant captain, if N. seemed to be tarrying too long (126 ff.). The actor who now comes on as would not, however, be the same who played the (a mute person), but the tritagonist, who played Odysseus. The sailor who accompanies him is a mute person; and that part may have been taken by the former representative of the .

mvp-comment-298-6 As N. has already ensnared Ph. , and is on the point of starting with him, there is no actual need for the intervention of the

. But Odysseus, at the ship, could not know this; and we are to suppose that he had become impatient. The scene which follows heightens the dramatic interest by bringing out the horror with which Ph. regards the idea of returning to Troy.

mvp-comment-298-7 ξυνέμπορον ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-299-1 φράσαι σε, ποῦ ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-299-2 κυρῶν εἴης ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-300-1 δοξάζων μὲν οὔ ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-300-2 ὁρμισθεὶς ³⁶⁹ ταὐτὸν … πέδον ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-301-1 οὐ πολλῷ στόλῳ ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-302-1 Πεπάρηθον ³⁷² εὔβοτρυν ³⁷³

mvp-comment-302-2 ἤκουσα τοὺς ναύτας ὅτι ³⁷⁴ πάντες ³⁷⁵ συννεναυστοληκότες ³⁷⁶ οἱ νεναυστοληκότες ³⁷⁷ σοὶ ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-303-1 ἔδοξέ μοι ³⁷⁹ προστυχόντι ³⁸⁰ ποεῖσθαι ³⁸¹ μὴ σῖγα, πρὶν φράσαιμι ³⁸² προστυχόντι ³⁸³ προστυχόντι ³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-303-2 τῶν ἴσων ³⁸⁵ προστυχόντι ³⁸⁶ σοι ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-304-1 ἃ τοῖσιν ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-304-2 vέα ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-305-1 οὐκέτ’ ἐξαργούμενα ³⁹⁰ ἔργα ³⁹¹ δρώμενα ³⁹²

mvp-comment-306-1 ἀλλ’ ³⁹³ ἡ χάρις … τῆς προμηθίας ³⁹⁴ προμηθίας ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-306-2 εἰ μὴ κακὸς πέφυκα ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-306-3 προσφιλὴς ³⁹⁷ χάρις ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-307-1 ἅπερ γ’ ³⁹⁹ ἅπερ κἄλεξας ⁴⁰⁰ γε ⁴⁰¹ ἅπερ ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-308-1 νεώτερον ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-308-2 ἀπ’ Ἀργείων ⁴⁰⁴ βούλευμα ⁴⁰⁵ ἔχεις ⁴⁰⁶ μοι ⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-309-1 φοῖνιξ ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-309-2 οἵ τε Θησέως κόροι ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-310-1 ἐκ βίας ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-310-2 λόγοις ⁴¹¹ δόλοις ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-311-1 καθ’ ὁρμὴν ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-312-1 ὡς ταῦτ’ ἐπίστω δρώμεν’ ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-313-1 πρὸς τάδ’ ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-313-2 αὐτάγγελος ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-314-1 κεῖνός γ’ ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-314-2 ὁ Τυδέως παῖς ⁴¹⁸ ἔστελλον ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-315-1 πρὸς ποῖον αὖ τόνδ’ … ἔπλει ⁴²⁰ αὖ ⁴²¹ αὖ ⁴²² ἂν ⁴²³

mvp-comment-315-2 If ἂν ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-316-1 σοι ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-317-1 τὰ πλείον’ ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-317-2 σεαυτὸν ξυλλαβὼν ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-318-1 τί με ⁴²⁸ διεμπολᾷ … πρός σε ⁴²⁹ τί με ⁴³⁰ τί δὲ ⁴³¹ διεμπολᾷ ⁴³²

mvp-comment-319-1 εἰς φῶς ⁴³³ καί … τε ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-320-1 σπέρμ’ ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-320-2 στρατῷ ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-320-3 ἃ μὴ δεῖ ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-320-4 δρῶν ἀντιπάσχω ⁴³⁸ οἷ’ ἀνὴρ πένης ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-320-5 χρηστά θ’ ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐγώ εἰμ’ ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-321-2 φίλος μέγιστος ⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-322-1 λόγων ⁴⁴³ λόγον ⁴⁴⁴ ὧν ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-323-1 ὅρα ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-323-2 πάλαι ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-324-1 ποιοῦ ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-324-2 λέγων ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-325-1 λέγω ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-325-2 )πὶ τοῦτον ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-325-3 τοῦτον ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-325-4 592 Although Odysseus and Diomedes had been named in 570, it is obviously natural that their names should be repeated in this more explicit statement.

mvp-comment-326-1 διώμοτοι ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-326-2 ἦ μὴν ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-327-1 πείσαντες ⁴⁵⁵ πρὸς ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-328-1 πλέον ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-328-2 θατέρου ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-329-1 τίνος … πράγματος χάριν ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-329-2 χρόνῳ τοσῷδε ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-329-3 ἐπεστρέφοντο ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-329-4 ἄγαν οὕτω ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-329-5 The order of the words is remarkable, not only because τίνος ⁴⁶³ πράγματος ⁴⁶⁴ τοῦδ’ ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-330-1 εἶχον … ἐκβεβληκότες ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-330-2 χρόνιον ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-331-1 τίς ὁ πόθος ⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-331-2 ἵκετ’ ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-331-3 θεῶν βία ⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-331-4 νέμεσις ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-331-5 ἀμύνουσιν ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-332-1 ὄνομα δ’ ὠνομάζετο ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-333-1 Ἕλενος ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-333-2 The statement of the

is only part of the truth. Helenus had indeed been captured, and had said that Troy could not be taken without Philoctetes. But he had also said that Troy was destined to be taken that summer,—as if he knew that fate had decreed the return of Philoctetes,—who was then to be healed by the Asclepiadae, and to share with Neoptolemus the glory of the victory (1329—1342). Odysseus, however, believed that Philoctetes would not listen to persuasion, but must be brought back by a stratagem (103). And so the object of the in referring to Helenus is merely to convince Philoctetes that Odysseus is coming, in order that the sufferer may become still more anxious to depart with Neoptolemus for Greece, as he supposes.

mvp-comment-334-1 ἀκούων ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-334-2 λωβητὰ ἔπη ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-335-1 ἐς μέσον ⁴⁷⁷ ἔδειξ’ ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-336-1 τά τ’ ἄλλα … πάντα ⁴⁷⁹ καὶ ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-337-1 τἀπὶ Τροίᾳ πέργαμ’ ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-337-2 οὐ μή ποτε πέρσοιεν ⁴⁸² οὐ μή ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-337-3 οὐ δηποτε πέρσοιεν ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-338-1 ἄγοιντο ⁴⁸⁵ ἀγάγοιντο ⁴⁸⁶ ἄξοιντο ⁴⁸⁷ ἄγοιντο ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-338-2 νήσου ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-338-3 617 The words οἴοιτο μὲν μάλιστα ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-338-4 μάλιστα ⁴⁹² οἴοιτο ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-339-1 τούτων ⁴⁹⁴ μὴ τυχών ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-339-2 κάρα τέμνειν ⁴⁹⁶ ἐφεῖτο ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-340-1 τὸ σπεύδειν ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-340-2 σοι καὐτῷ ⁴⁹⁹ πέρι ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-341-1 ἡ πασα βλάβη ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-342-1 πεισθήσομαι ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-342-2 γὰρ ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-342-3 ὧδε ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-342-4 πρὸς φῶς ἀνελθεῖν ⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-342-5 οὑκείνου πατήρ ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-343-1 συμφέροι ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-344-1 τάδε ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-345-1 ἂν ⁵⁰⁹ δεῖξαι ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-345-2 νεὼς ἄγοντ’ ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-346-1 οὔ· ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-346-2 πλεῖστον ἐχθίστης ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-347-1 ἄπουν ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-348-1 πάντα λεκτά ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-349-1 ὡς … ὁρίζῃ ⁵¹⁶ ὁρίζει ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-350-1 τοὐκ πρῴρας ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-350-2 ἀνῇ ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-350-3 στελοῦμεν ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-351-1 οὔκ, ἀλλὰ ⁵²¹ οὐκ ⁵²² οἶδ)· ⁵²³ ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-352-1 ἀλλ’ ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-352-2 χωρῶμεν … λαβὼν ⁵²⁶ λαβόνθ’ ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-353-1 καίπερ οὐ πολλῶν ἄπο ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-354-1 νεώς γε τῆς ἐμῆς ἔπι ⁵²⁹ ἔνι ⁵³⁰ ἔπι ⁵³¹ ἔνι ⁵³² νεώς ⁵³³ ἔνι ⁵³⁴ ἔνι ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-355-1 πάνυ ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-356-1 τί γὰρ ἔτ’ ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-356-2 γάρ ⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-357-1 εἴ μοί τι τόξων ⁵³⁹ τόξα ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-357-2 ἀπημελημένον ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-357-3 παρερρύηκεν ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-357-4 ὡς λίπω μή ⁵⁴³ λαβεῖν ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-358-1 οὐ γὰρ ἄλλ’ ἔστ’, ἀλλ’ ἃ κ.τ.λ. ⁵⁴⁵ ἀλλ’ ⁵⁴⁶ ἄλλ’ ⁵⁴⁷ ἄλλος ⁵⁴⁸ ἃ βαστάζω ⁵⁴⁹ ταῦτ’ ⁵⁵⁰ ἄλλα γ’ ἔσθ’ ἃ ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-359-1 ὥστε ⁵⁵² ἔστιν ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-359-2 θεόν ⁵⁵⁴ θεός ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-360-1 ξυμφέρῃ ⁵⁵⁶ ἐρῶ ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-361-1 καὶ μὴν … γε ⁵⁵⁸ πάρες ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-362-1 ὅσια … θέμις ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-363-1 ὅς γ’ ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-363-2 φάος ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-363-3 δέδωκας ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-363-4 χθόν’ Οἰταίαν ⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-364-1 ἀνέστησας πέρα ⁵⁶⁵ πέρα ⁵⁶⁶ πέρα ⁵⁶⁷ ἔνερθεν ⁵⁶⁸ πέρα ⁵⁶⁹ μ’ ὕ ⁵⁷⁰ περ ⁵⁷¹ ἀναστήσας πάρει ⁵⁷² πέρα ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-365-1 ταῦτα ⁵⁷⁴ παρέσται σοι ⁵⁷⁵ καὶ θιγγάνειν ⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-366-1 καὶ δόντι δοῦναι ⁵⁷⁷ δοῦναι ⁵⁷⁸ ἐπεύξασθαι ⁵⁷⁹ θιγγάνειν ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-366-2 669 The acc. μόνον ⁵⁸¹ δόντι ⁵⁸² μόνῳ ⁵⁸³ μόνον ⁵⁸⁴ ς’ ⁵⁸⁵ ἀρετῆς ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-367-1 εὐεργετῶν ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-368-1 These three verses, called ‘manifesto spurii’ by Dindorf, are clearly genuine. If they are rejected, then Neoptolemus deigns no reply beyond

to the gracious and cordial speech of Philoctetes. In proof that the verses are pointless, Dindorf says:—‘Neque enim quidquam beneficii a Philocteta accepit Neoptolemus, ut dici possit.’ Blaydes, though he does not bracket the verses, assents to this argument:—‘Certainly cannot well apply to Neoptolemus.’ But refers, of course, to Philoctetes. Neoptolemus means:—‘I am not sorry that chance drove me to Lemnos, and thus enabled me to gain your friendship. One who is ready to requite a benefit (viz., conveyance to Greece) by such a kindness as this (the promised loan of the bow), must indeed prove to be a priceless friend.’

mvp-comment-369-1 εὖ δρᾶν εὖ παθὼν ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-369-2 κτήματος ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-370-1 χωροῖς ἂν εἴσω ⁵⁹⁰ καὶ σέ γ’ εἰσάξω ⁵⁹¹ γε ⁵⁹² σέ ⁵⁹³ χωροῖς ἂν εἴσω ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-370-2 τὸ γὰρ ⁵⁹⁵ νοσοῦν ⁵⁹⁶ τὸ … νοσοῦν ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-371-1 ἐξήκους’ ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-371-2 ὄπωπα δ’ οὐ μάλα ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-372-1 τὸν πελάταν ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-372-2 The comparison with Ixion is the more forcible here, since reference has just been made to the gratitude shown by Philoctetes (672). Ixion was the great example of ingratitude. Cp. Pind. P. 2. 21

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mvp-comment-372-3 λέκτρων … τῶν Διὸς ⁶⁰¹ τῶν ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-373-1 κατὰ δρομάδ’ ἄμπυκα … Κρόνου παῖς ⁶⁰³ Ἰξίονα ⁶⁰⁴ δέσμιον ⁶⁰⁵ Ἰξίονα ⁶⁰⁶ δέσμιον ⁶⁰⁷ Ἰξίονα ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-373-2 (1) The poet's tendency to omit the proper name in mythical allusion, when the context made his meaning clear, might be illustrated from Ant, 133, where Capaneus is described, yet not named; and from 966—987 of the same play, where Cleopatra—whose fate is being compared with Antigone's—is only indicated as the mother of the Phineidae (980) and the daughter of Boreas (985).

mvp-comment-373-3 (2) δέσμιον ⁶⁰⁹ κατ’ ἄμπυκα … ἔβαλεν ⁶¹⁰ δέσμιον ⁶¹¹ κατ’ ⁶¹² ἀν’ ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-373-4 Ἰξίον’ ἀν’ ἄμπυκα δὴ δρομάδ’ ὡς ἔβαλεν ⁶¹⁴ δέσμιον ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-373-5 ἄμπυκα ⁶¹⁶ δρομάδα ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-373-6 Cp. Hesych.,

. Musgrave's ἄντυγα ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-374-1 τοῦδ’ ⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-375-1 οὔτ’ ἔρξας τιν’, οὔ τι νοσφίσας ⁶²⁰ οὔ τι ⁶²¹ οὔτε ⁶²² οὐκ ⁶²³ νοσφίσας ⁶²⁴ ἔρξας ⁶²⁵ νοσφίσας ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-376-1 ἴσος ὢν ἴσοις ⁶²⁷ ἴσος ὢν ἴσοις ⁶²⁸ ἴσος ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-376-2 L has ἴσως ⁶³⁰ ἐν ἴσοις ⁶³¹ ἔν γ’ ⁶³²

mvp-comment-377-1 ὤλλυθ’ ⁶³³

mvp-comment-377-2 The MS. text here is ὤλλυθ’ ὧδ’ ἀναξίως· τόδε θαῦμ’ ἔχει με ⁶³⁴ τόδε τοι θαῦμά μ’ ἔχει ⁶³⁵ τότ’ ἂν εἰλυόμενος ⁶³⁶ ὤλλυθ’ ὧδ’ ἀναξίως ⁶³⁷ εἷρπε γὰρ ⁶³⁸ εἷρπε δ’ ⁶³⁹ ὤλλυθ’ ⁶⁴⁰ ὠλέκεθ’ ⁶⁴¹ ὤλλυτο τῇδ’ ⁶⁴² ἀναξίως ⁶⁴³ ἄλλᾳ ⁶⁴⁴ ἀλλ ⁶⁴⁵ αχ ⁶⁴⁶ ᾷ ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-378-1 ἀμφιπλάκτων ⁶⁴⁸ κλύζων ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-379-1 βιοτὰν κατέσχεν ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-380-1 ἵν’ αὐτὸς ἦν πρόσουρος ⁶⁵¹ ἦν ⁶⁵² οἱ ⁶⁵³ πρόσουρος ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-380-2 οὐκ ἔχων βάσιν ⁶⁵⁵ πρόσουρον οὐκ ἔχων βάσιν ⁶⁵⁶ πρόδουλον … βάσιν ⁶⁵⁷ οὔτιν’ ἐς ἔγχωρον ⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-381-1 κακογείτονα ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-381-2 Compounds to which

gives the first part are of two classes, according as the element is (1) adj. or (2) subst. In class (1) there are again two types. ( a) The commonest is that of , = : i.e., the compound denotes ‘possessing’ the subst. as qualified by . ( b) A rarer, chiefly poet., type is that of as simply= . In class (2) ( a) the is most often equiv. to the subst. or in the acc., governed by a verb: as = . ( b) But sometimes this represents a gen. or dat., depending on another noun: thus , ‘prophet of evil’ ( Aesch. Pers. 10 etc.)= . Cratinus used as = (‘cruel to slaves’), fr. 7. And so could belong either to (1) b,= : or, as it actually does here, to (2) b, . Cp. .

mvp-comment-381-3 The schol. joined κακογείτονα ⁶⁶⁰ στόνον ⁶⁶¹ κακογείτονα ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-382-1 παρ’ ᾧ ⁶⁶³ ἀποκλαύσειεν ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-382-2 ἀντίτυπον ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-382-3 βαρυβρῶτα … αἱματηρόν ⁶⁶⁶ στόνον ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-383-1 ὃς τὰν ⁶⁶⁸ οὐδ’ ὃς τὰν ⁶⁶⁹ οὐδ’ ⁶⁷⁰ τὰν ⁶⁷¹ ὃς τὰν ⁶⁷² οὐδ’ ὃς ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-383-2 αἱμάδα ⁶⁷⁴ κηκι—ομέναν ⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-383-3 ἑλκέων ⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-383-4 ἐνθήρου ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-384-1 εἴ τις ἐμπέσοι ⁶⁷⁸ ἑλών ⁶⁷⁹ ἑλεῖν ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-384-2 Some read εἴ τιν’ ἐμπέσοι ⁶⁸¹ εἵ τι ⁶⁸² συμπέσοι ⁶⁸³ ἑλεῖν ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-384-3 φορβάδος ⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-385-1 εἷρπε ⁶⁸⁶ ἂν ⁶⁸⁷ εἷρπε ⁶⁸⁸ εἰλυόμενος ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-386-1 παῖς … ὡς ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-387-1 ὅθεν ⁶⁹¹ ὅθεν ὑπάρχοι ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-387-2 εὐμάρεια … πόρου ⁶⁹³ πόρων ⁶⁹⁴ πόρον ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-387-3 ἐξανείη ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-387-4 δακέθυμος ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-388-1 ἱερᾶς ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-388-2 αἴρων ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-388-3 ἄλλων ⁷⁰⁰ φορβὰν ⁷⁰¹ τῶν ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-388-4 ἀλφησταί ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-388-5 ἀνέρες ⁷⁰⁴ α— ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-389-1 πτανοῖς ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-389-2 ἰοῖς ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-390-1 ψυχά, ὃς ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-390-2 ὃς μηδ’ ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-390-3 ἥσθη ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-390-4 οἰνοχύτου ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-390-5 δεκέτει χρόνῳ ⁷¹² δεκέτη χρόνον ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-391-1 λεύσσων ⁷¹⁴ ὅπου γνοίη ⁷¹⁵ προσενώμα ⁷¹⁶ εἰς στατὸν ὕδωρ ⁷¹⁷ γνοίη ⁷¹⁸ προσενώμα ⁷¹⁹ στατὸν … ὕδωρ ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-392-1 ἀνδρῶν ἀγ ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-392-2 ὑπαντήσας ⁷²²

mvp-comment-393-1 ἀνύσει εὐδαίμων ⁷²³

mvp-comment-393-2 ἐκ κείνων ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-394-1 ποντοπόρῳ ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-394-2 δούρατι ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-394-3 πλήθει … μηνῶν ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-395-1 πατρίαν ⁷²⁸ πατρῴαν ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-395-2 Μαλιάδων ⁷³⁰ αὐλὰν ⁷³¹ ὄχθας ⁷³²

mvp-comment-395-3 παρ’ ὄχθας ⁷³³ Σπερχειοῦ τε ⁷³⁴ Σπερχειοῖο ⁷³⁵ ὄχθαις ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-396-1 ὁ χάλκασπις ἀνὴρ ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-396-2 In this play Heracles figures especially as the former possessor of the invincible bow. Why, then, has Soph. here chosen an epithet, χάλκασπις ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-397-1 πλάθει ⁷³⁹ πλάθη ⁷⁴⁰ θείῳ πυρὶ παμφαής ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-397-2 *

is my emendation of the corrupt πᾶσι ⁷⁴² ὅπου ⁷⁴³ πᾶσι ⁷⁴⁴ πλάθει ⁷⁴⁵ θείῳ ⁷⁴⁶ πᾶσι ⁷⁴⁷ πατρὸς ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-397-3 The burning of Heracles, and his apotheosis, are combined in some vase paintings. (1) A bowl (

) of the 4th cent. B.C., now in the Collegio Rainone at Agata S. dei Goti: Milani, Mito di Filottete, p. 65: Baumeister, Denkm., p. 307, fig. 322. In the lower part of the picture is the still burning pyre, which a Nymph on the left is trying to quench by pouring water from a jug. The trunk of the hero's mortal body lies on the pyre. On the right, a bearded figure in a peaked cap is hastily receding. This is either Poeas or Philoctetes: at his side is the quiver given him by the hero for kindling the pyre. Above, a Doric portal represents the entrance to Olympus. Apollo, laurel-crowned, sits on the left of it; a four-horse chariot approaches him, preceded by Hermes. It is driven by a winged goddess (a ): on her left sits Heracles, crowned with laurel, his club in his left hand; a light garment (a sort of chlamys) floats round his shoulders. (2) A Lucanian vase, now at Munich: Baumeister, p. 669, fig. 734. Below is the pyre, with the trunk of Heracles on it: the fire is being quenched by two Nymphs on the right and (an Attic fountain). On the left are two Satyr figures. Above, Athena Nikè, with helmet, lance, and chequered aegis worn as a corslet, is driving Heracles to Olympus; his left hand holds the club, and round his left arm is wound his chlamys.—We notice how the participation of Nymphs in these scenes illustrates the poet's (v. 725).

mvp-comment-398-1 ὄχθων ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-399-1 εἰ θέλεις ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-400-1 ἀπόπληκτος ἔχει ⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-401-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ⁷⁵² τί ἔστιν ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-402-1 τῆς παρεστώσης ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-402-2 735 The intrans. κουφίζειν ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-402-3 736 f. I follow A here (see cr. n.), for a reason which was felt by Hermann, but which has not been sufficiently considered by some other editors,—viz., that ἰὼ θεοί ⁷⁵⁶ ἰὼ θεοί ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-402-4 τί θεοὺς ἀναστένων καλεῖς ⁷⁵⁸ θεοὺς ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-403-1 κυρῶν ⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-404-1 διέρχεται ⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-404-2 βρύκομαι ⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-404-3 746 Written as above, the exclamations represent three successive cries of pain, each longer than the last, as the agony becomes sharper; they seem to suggest the convulsive movement of the lips from which the sounds are wrung.

mvp-comment-405-1 εἴ τί σοι ξίφος πρόχειρον ⁷⁶³ χεροῖν ⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-405-2 πάταξον εἰς ἄκρον πόδα ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-406-1 ἴθ’ ὦ παῖ ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-407-1 νεοχμὸν ἐξαίφνης ⁷⁶⁷ σαυτοῦ ⁷⁶⁸ ἰυγήν ⁷⁶⁹ ποεῖ ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-408-1 τί σοί ⁷⁷¹ ἔστιν ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-409-1 τοὐπίσαγμα ⁷⁷³ τοὐπείσαγμα ⁷⁷⁴ τοὐπίσιγμα ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-410-1 γὰρ ⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-410-2 δράσω ⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-411-1 ἥκει … ἐξεπλήσθη ⁷⁷⁸ αὕτη ⁷⁷⁹ διὰ χρόνου ⁷⁸⁰ ἥκει ⁷⁸¹ διὰ χρόνου ⁷⁸² πλάνοις ⁷⁸³ ἥκει ⁷⁸⁴ πλάνοις ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-411-2 ἐξεπλήσθη. — ἰώ ⁷⁸⁶ φεῦ ⁷⁸⁷ ἰώ ⁷⁸⁸ ἐξέπλης ⁷⁸⁹ πλάνους ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-411-3 760 There is an error in the traditional numbering here, as the fourth verse after this is called 765. The origin of this error is explained in the Appendix. To avoid changing the usual numeration throughout the rest of the play, I designate the next verse as 762.

mvp-comment-411-4 δῆτα ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-411-5 δύστηνε … φανείς ⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-411-6 διὰ πόνων πάντων ⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-412-1 βούλει λάβωμαι ⁷⁹⁴ δῆτα ⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-413-1 μοι ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-414-1 ἕως ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-414-2 ἀνῇ ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-415-1 τὸ πῆμα … τῆς νόσου ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-416-1 γὰρ οὖν ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-416-2 ἐξίῃ ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-417-1 λῆξαι ⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-418-1 ἕκηλον εὕδειν ⁸⁰³ τῷδε τῷ χρόνῳ ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-418-2 ἐκεῖνοι ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-419-1 ἑκόντα μήτ’ ἄκοντα ⁸⁰⁶ μήτ’ ⁸⁰⁷ μηδ’ ⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-419-2 μήτε τῳ τέχνῃ ⁸⁰⁹ μηδέ ⁸¹⁰ μήτε ⁸¹¹ τέχνῃ ⁸¹²

mvp-comment-420-1 πρόστροπον ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-420-2 κτείνας γένῃ ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-421-1 προνοίας οὕνεκ’ ⁸¹⁵ γ’ ⁸¹⁶ οὕνεκα ⁸¹⁷ γε ⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-421-2 πλὴν σοί τε κἀμοί ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-421-3 ξὺν τύχῃ ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-422-1 τὸν φθόνον δὲ πρόσκυσον ⁸²¹

mvp-comment-423-1 μή … γενέσθαι ⁸²²

mvp-comment-423-2 πολύπονα ⁸²³

mvp-comment-423-3 μηδ’ ὅπως ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-424-1 θεοί ⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-424-2 γένοιτο … γένοιτο δὲ ⁸²⁶ ταῦτα νῷν ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-424-3 κεὐσταλής ⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-424-4 ὅποι ποτὲ ⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-425-1 ἀλλ’ Ὄκνος ⁸³⁰ ἀλλὰ δέδοικ’, ὦ παῖ, μή μ’ ἀτελὴς εὐχή ⁸³¹ ὦ παῖ ⁸³² ἀλλὰ ⁸³³ δέδοικ’ ⁸³⁴ μ’ ⁸³⁵ με ⁸³⁶ εὔχῃ, μή μ’ ἀτελὴς ⁸³⁷ ἀτελῶς ⁸³⁸ εὔχῃ ⁸³⁹ ἔχει ⁸⁴⁰ ἀτέλεστ’ ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-425-2 For μὴ ⁸⁴² α ⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-426-1 κηκῖον ⁸⁴⁴ νέον ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-427-1 ἐργάσει ⁸⁴⁶ προσέρπει ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-428-1 τάλας ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-428-2 ἔχετε ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-428-3 μηδαμῇ ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-429-1 Κεφαλλήν ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-429-2 σοῦ ⁸⁵² ἔχοιτο ⁸⁵³ διαμπερὲς στέρνων ⁸⁵⁴ σου ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-430-1 μάλ’ αὖθις ⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-430-2 ὦ διπλοῖ στρ. ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-430-3 Ἀγάμεμνον, ὦ Μενέλαε ⁸⁵⁸ Μενέλαέ τ’ Ἀγάμεμνόν τε ⁸⁵⁹ πῶς ἄν ⁸⁶⁰ τρέφοιτε ⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-430-4 τὸν ἴσον χρόνον ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-431-1 ὦ Θάνατε ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-431-2 ἀεὶ … κατ’ ἦμαρ ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-431-3 δύνᾳ ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-432-1 ὦ τέκνον, ὦ γενναῖον ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-432-2 ἀλλὰ ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-433-1 τῷ Λ. τῷδ’ ἀνακ. πυρὶ ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-433-2 The volcanic mountain called

appears to have been on the east coast of Lemnos, south of the rocky promontory ( , v. 1459) to which the cave of Philoctetes was adjacent. No volcanic crater can now be traced in Lemnos; and it is probable that the ancient Mosychlus has been submerged. See Appendix. was proverbial for ‘a fierce fire’ ( Ar. Lys. 299 ). Lycophron (227) has in this sense, and calls Ajax | (462), ‘Lemnian thunderbolt of war.’ Cp. Hesych. . The legendary association of Lemnos with fierce crime ( ) may have helped to suggest such phrases.

mvp-comment-434-1 ἔμπρησον ⁸⁶⁹ πυρί μ’ ⁸⁷⁰ συλλαβὼν ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-435-1 τὸν τοῦ Διὸς παῖδ’ ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-435-2 σῴζεις ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-435-3 τοῦτ’ ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-435-4 ἐπηξίωσα ⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-435-5 δρᾶν ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-436-1 τί φής, παῖ ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-436-2 ποῦ ποτ’ ὤν ⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-437-1 πάλαι δὴ ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-437-2 τἀπὶ σοὶ … κακά ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-438-1 καὶ θάρσος ἴσχε ⁸⁸¹ καὶ ⁸⁸² μοι. ⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-438-2 φοιτᾷ ⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-438-3 ὀξεῖα, ταχεῖα ⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-439-1 οὐ μήν ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-439-2 ἔνορκον … θέσθαι ⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-440-1 ὡς ⁸⁸⁸ θέμις ⁸⁸⁹ γε ⁸⁹⁰ θέμις ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-440-2 ἐμοὔστι ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-441-1 ἔμβαλλε ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-442-1 ἐκεῖσε νῦν μ’ ⁸⁹⁴ ἐκεῖσε ⁸⁹⁵ ἐκεῖσε ⁸⁹⁶ ἄνω ⁸⁹⁷ παραφρονεῖς αὖ ⁸⁹⁸ τὸν ἄνω λεύσσεις κύκλον ⁸⁹⁹ εἴ τι δὴ πλέον φρονεῖς ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-443-1 αὖ ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-443-2 τὸν ἄνω κύκλον ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-444-1 ποτέ ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-444-2 ἀπό μ’ ὀλεῖς ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-445-1 καὶ δὴ μεθίημ’ ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-445-2 εἴ τι δὴ ⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-445-3 πλέον φρονεῖς ⁹⁰⁷ εἰ ⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-446-1 θανάσιμον ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-446-2 ὅπως ἔχω ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-446-3 ὀρθοῦσθαι ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-447-1 οὐ μακροῦ χρόνου ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-448-1 γέ τοι ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-449-1 ἄκρον … ποδὸς ⁹¹⁴ φλέψ ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-450-1 ὄμμασι δ’ ἀντίσχοις ⁹¹⁶ τάνδ’ αἴγλαν ἃ τέταται τανῦν ⁹¹⁷ τάνδε ⁹¹⁸ αἴγλαν ⁹¹⁹ τέταται ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-450-2 The words could not mean, ‘keep off this sunlight from his eyes.’ ὄμμασι ⁹²¹ ἀντίσχοις ⁹²² αἴγλαν ⁹²³ ἀντίσχοις ⁹²⁴ τάνδ’ αἴγλαν ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-451-1 ἴθι ἴθι ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-452-1 ποῦ στάσει ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-453-1 The MSS. give here ποῖ δὲ βάσει πῶς δέ μοι τἀντεῦθεν ⁹²⁸ κεῖνό μοι, κεῖνο λάθρᾳ ⁹²⁹ ποῖ δέ μοι τἀνθένδε βάσει ⁹³⁰ ποῖ ⁹³¹ φροντίδος ⁹³²

mvp-comment-453-2 τἀνθένδε ⁹³³

mvp-comment-454-1 ὁρᾷς ἤδη ⁹³⁴ ὁρᾷς, εὕδει ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-455-1 πρὸς τί μενοῦμεν ⁹³⁶ πράσσειν ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-456-1 καιρός ⁹³⁸ πάντων γνώμαν ἴσχων ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-456-2 < πολύ τι > πολὺ ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-456-3 παρὰ πόδα ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-457-1 ἀλλ’ ὅδε μὲν ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-457-2 θήραν … ἔχομεν ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-458-1 τοῦδε … τοῦτον ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-458-2 ὁ στέφανος ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-459-1 κομπεῖν δ’ ⁹⁴⁶ ἀτελῆ σὺν ψεύδεσιν ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-460-1 ἀλλά, τέκνον ⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-460-2 ὀψεται ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-461-1 ὧν ⁹⁵⁰ λόγων ⁹⁵¹ ἀμείβῃ ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-462-1 πάντων ⁹⁵³ λεύσσειν ⁹⁵⁴ εὐδρακὴς ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-463-1 ἀλλ’ ὅτι δύνᾳ ⁹⁵⁶ λάθρᾳ ⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-463-2 δύνᾳ ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-463-3 κεῖνο … κεῖνο ⁹⁵⁹ δή ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-463-4 μοι ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-463-5 ὅτι δ. μάκιστον ⁹⁶² ἐξιδοῦ ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-463-6 ὅπᾳ ⁹⁶⁴ ὅπως ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-464-1 οἶσθα γὰρ ἃν … πάθη ⁹⁶⁶ ἃν ⁹⁶⁷ ὧν ⁹⁶⁸ ὃν ⁹⁶⁹ γνώμαν ⁹⁷⁰ οἶσθα γὰρ ἃν αὐδῶμαι ⁹⁷¹ ταύταν ⁹⁷² κεῖνο ⁹⁷³ τούτῳ ⁹⁷⁴ πυκινοῖς ⁹⁷⁵ ἐνιδεῖν ⁹⁷⁶ ἄπορα πάθη ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-465-1 οὖρος ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-466-1 οὐδ’ ἔχων ἀρωγὰν ⁹⁷⁹ νύχιος ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-467-1 ἀλεὴς ὕπνος ἐσθλός ⁹⁸¹ ἀλεής ⁹⁸² ἀλέας ⁹⁸³ ἀδεὴς ⁹⁸⁴ δ’ ⁹⁸⁵ ἀλεὴς ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-467-2 Some reject ἀλεὴς ὕπνος ἐσθλός ⁹⁸⁷ ἀδεὴς ⁹⁸⁸ ἀδεὴς πόνος ἐσθλός ⁹⁸⁹ πόνος ὁ μὴ φοβῶν κράτιστος ⁹⁹⁰ ἀδεὴς πόνος ἐσθλός ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-468-1 οὔ τινος ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-469-1 Ἀΐδᾳ πάρα κείμενος ⁹⁹³ παρακείμενος ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-470-1 ὅρα, βλέπ’ ⁹⁹⁵ ὅρα ⁹⁹⁶ ὁρᾷ ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-470-2 εἰ καίρια φθέγγει ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-471-1 τὸ δ’ ἁλώσιμον ἐμᾷ φρ. ⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-471-2 πόνος ὁ μὴ φοβῶν κράτιστος ¹⁰⁰⁰ ὁ μὴ φοβῶν ¹⁰⁰¹ πόνος ¹⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-472-1 μηδ’ ἀφεστάναι φρενῶν ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-473-1 ὦ φέγγος ¹⁰⁰⁴ τό τ’ ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-473-2 ἐλπίδων ἄπιστον ¹⁰⁰⁶ οἰκούρημα ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-474-1 τοῦτ’ ¹⁰⁰⁸ ἐξηύχης’ ¹⁰⁰⁹ τλῆναι ¹⁰¹⁰ ἂν ¹⁰¹¹ τλῆναι ¹⁰¹² ἐξηύχης’ ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-474-2 μεῖναι ¹⁰¹⁴ τἀμὰ πήματα ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-474-3 ξυνωφελοῦντά μοι ¹⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-475-1 οὔκουν ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-475-2 εὐφόρως ¹⁰¹⁸ εὐπόρως ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-476-1 κἀξ εὐγενῶν ¹⁰²⁰ ἐν εὐχερεῖ ἔθου ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-476-2 γέμων ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-477-1 λήθη ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-477-2 δή ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-478-1 σύ μ’ αὐτὸς … ποτέ ¹⁰²⁵ κόπος ¹⁰²⁶ ού μ’ αὐτὸς ἆρον, σύ με κατάστησον ¹⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-478-2 νῦν δ’ αἶρε σαυτόν ¹⁰²⁸ ἵν’, ἡνίκ’ ἂν κόπος μ’ ἀπαλλάξῃ ποτέ ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-478-3 ZippmannA. , whom Nauck and Cavallin follow in their texts, deletes both v. 880 and v. 889 as spurious, and transposes 879 to a place between 888 and 890. His two main objections to the traditional text are:—Why should Ph. , formerly so eager to start, now wish to wait till his

has passed off? (880). And why should he desire to rise before that moment, instead of resting on the ground? The view of the whole situation which I have given above will show why I believe the traditional text to be sound.

mvp-comment-479-1 ἐπίσχωμεν ¹⁰³⁰ τὸ πλεῖν ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-480-1 ἀλλ’ ἥδομαι μέν ¹⁰³² μέν ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-480-2 ἀνώδυνον ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-480-3 βλέποντα ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-480-4 κἀμπνέοντ’ ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-481-1 ὡς οὐκέτ’ ὄντος ¹⁰³⁷ συμβόλαια ¹⁰³⁸ τὰς παρούσας ξυμφορὰς ¹⁰³⁹ πρὸς ¹⁰⁴⁰ τὰς παρ. ξυμφοράς ¹⁰⁴¹ πρὸς τὰς παρ. ξυμφορὰς ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-481-2 συμβόλαια ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-482-1 νῦν δ’ αἶρε σαυτόν ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-482-2 εἰ δέ σοι μᾶλλον φίλον ¹⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-482-3 τοῦ πόνου γὰρ ¹⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-483-1 αἰνῶ τάδ’, ὦ παῖ ¹⁰⁴⁷ αἰνῶ τάδε ¹⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-484-1 ἔασον ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-484-2 ὀσμῇ ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-484-3 συνναίειν ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-485-1 ἔσται τάδ’ ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-485-2 ἵστω ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-485-3 καὐτὸς ἀντέχου ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-486-1 σύνηθες … ἔθος ¹⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-487-1 τί δῆτ’ ἂν δρῷμ’ ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-487-2 δρῷμ’ ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-487-3 τοὐνθένδε γε ¹⁰⁵⁸ γε ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-488-1 ἐξέβης ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-488-2 λόγῳ ¹⁰⁶¹ λόγων ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-489-1 οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅποι χρὴ ¹⁰⁶³ στρέφειν ¹⁰⁶⁴ τρέπειν ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-490-1 ἀπορεῖς δὲ τοῦ σύ ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-491-1 ἐνθάδε … τοῦδε τοῦ πάθους ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-492-1 οὐ δή ¹⁰⁶⁸ ὥστε ¹⁰⁶⁹ ἔπεισεν ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-492-2 ναύτην ¹⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-493-1 ἅπαντα δυσχέρεια ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-493-2 τὴν αὑτοῦ φύσιν ¹⁰⁷³ λιπών ¹⁰⁷⁴ τὰ μὴ προσεικότα ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-494-1 οὐδὲν ἔξω τοῦ φυτεύσαντος ¹⁰⁷⁶ φυτεύσαντος ¹⁰⁷⁷ προσεικότος ¹⁰⁷⁸ τοὐμφυτευθέντος ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-494-2 ἐσθλὸν ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-495-1 πάλαι ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-496-1 οὔκουν ¹⁰⁸² ἐν οἷς γε δρᾷς ¹⁰⁸³ ἐν οἷς δὲ αὐδᾷς ¹⁰⁸⁴

mvp-comment-496-2 ὀκνῶ ¹⁰⁸⁵ δρᾷς ¹⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-497-1 δράσω ¹⁰⁸⁷ λέγων αἴσχιστ’ ἐπῶν ¹⁰⁸⁸ κρύπτων ἃ μὴ δεῖ ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-498-1 ἁνὴρ ὅδ’ ¹⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-498-2 εἰ μὴ )γὼ ¹⁰⁹¹ γνώμην ¹⁰⁹² γνώμων ¹⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-498-3 τὸν πλοῦν στελεῖν ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-499-1 λιπὼν ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-499-2 πέμπω ¹⁰⁹⁶ πέμπων ¹⁰⁹⁷ τοῦτ’ ¹⁰⁹⁸ τοῦτ’ ἀνιῶμαι πάλαι ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-500-1 οὐδέν σε κρύψω ¹¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-500-2 γὰρ ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-501-1 τί <δ)> εἶπας ¹¹⁰² δ’ ¹¹⁰³ τί εἶπας ¹¹⁰⁴ τί μ’ εἶπας ¹¹⁰⁵ τί γ’ εἶπας ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-501-2 πρὶν μάθῃς ¹¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-501-3 ποῖον μάθημα ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-501-4 δρᾶσαι ¹¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-502-1 σῶσαι κακοῦ ¹¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-502-2 ξὺν σοὶ ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-503-1 καὶ ταῦτ’ ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-503-2 ἀληθῆ ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-503-3 κρατεῖ τούτων ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-504-1 ὦ ξένε ¹¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-505-1 ἀλλ’ οὐχ οἷόν τε ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-505-2 τῶν ἐν τέλει ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-505-3 927 ff. While Philoctetes makes this appeal, Neoptolemus stands with averted face (935), still holding the bow. Despairing anguish could not be more pathetically expressed than by the transitions from imprecation to entreaty, and from entreaty to the half-soliloquy in which he imagines the future (952).

mvp-comment-506-1 πῦρ ¹¹¹⁸ πῦρ ¹¹¹⁹ δεῖμα ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-506-2 πᾶν δεῖμα ¹¹²¹ δεῖμα ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-506-3 πανουργίας … τέχνημα ¹¹²³ τέχνημα ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-507-1 εἰργάσω ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-508-1 τὸν προστρόπαιον ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-509-1 τὸν βίον ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-509-2 932 A dactyl is here followed by a tribrach, as in 1029 we have two tribrachs. In both verses the rhythm marks agitation.

mvp-comment-510-1 θεῶν πατρῴων ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-510-2 με μὴ ἀφέλῃ ¹¹²⁹

mvp-comment-511-1 προσφωνεῖ ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-511-2 ὡς μεθήσων μήποθ’ ¹¹³¹ ὁρᾷ πάλιν ¹¹³²

mvp-comment-512-1 λιμένες ¹¹³³ προβλῆτες ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-512-2 ξυνουσίαι θηρῶν ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-512-3 καταρρῶγες ¹¹³⁶

mvp-comment-513-1 λέγω ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-513-2 ἀνακλαίομαι ¹¹³⁸

mvp-comment-513-3 παροῦσι ¹¹³⁹ τοῖς εἰωθόσιν ¹¹⁴⁰ παροῦσι ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-514-1 ὀμόσας ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-514-2 προσθείς ¹¹⁴³ προθείς ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-515-1 ἱερὰ ¹¹⁴⁵ τοῦ Ζηνὸς Ἡρακλέους ¹¹⁴⁶ ἱερὰ ¹¹⁴⁷ τοῦ Ζ. Ἡρ ¹¹⁴⁸ τοῦ Ζ. Ἡρακλ. ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-516-1 φήνασθαι ¹¹⁵⁰ φήνασθαι ¹¹⁵¹ φήνασθαι ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-516-2 Seyffert, placing only a comma after θέλει ¹¹⁵³ κοὐχ ὡς ¹¹⁵⁴ κοὐκ οἶδ’ ¹¹⁵⁵ ὡς ¹¹⁵⁶ κοὐχ ὡς ¹¹⁵⁷ ὡς ¹¹⁵⁸ θέλει ¹¹⁵⁹ ὡς ἑλὼν ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-517-1 κοὐκ οἶδ’ ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-517-2 ἐναίρων νεκρὸν ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-517-3 καπνοῦ σκιάν ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-517-4 εἴδωλον ἄλλως ¹¹⁶⁴ ἄλλως ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-518-1 ἐπεὶ οὐδ’ ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-519-1 ἀλλ’ ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-519-2 ἀλλὰ νῦν ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-519-3 ἐν σαυτῷ γενοῦ ¹¹⁶⁹ ἔτι ¹¹⁷⁰ ἐν σαυτοῦ ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-520-1 σιωπᾷς ¹¹⁷² οὐδέν εἰμ’ ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-521-1 ὦ σχῆμα πέτρας δίπυλον ¹¹⁷⁴ σχῆμα ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-521-2 αὖθις αὖ πάλιν ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-521-3 953 The MSS. and edd. give πρὸς σὲ ¹¹⁷⁷ πρός σε ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-521-4 ψιλός ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-522-1 αὐανοῦμαι ¹¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-523-1 πτηνὸν ¹¹⁸¹ ὀρειβάτην ¹¹⁸²

mvp-comment-523-2 τοισίδ’ ¹¹⁸³ τοισίδ’ ¹¹⁸⁴ τοῖσδ’ ἔτ’ ¹¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-524-1 παρέξω δαῖτα ¹¹⁸⁶ ὑφ’ ὧν ἐφερβ ¹¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-524-2 Wunder proposes

, objecting that implies active ministration, ‘as by a nurse.’ It is true that properly refers to the nurse, while the source of nourishment is denoted by , or ( cp. 535 ). But here Ph. is poetically saying that he had forced the beasts to become his ,—as he will now be theirs; and so ὑπό ¹¹⁸⁸ ἀπό ¹¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-525-1 καί μ’ ¹¹⁹⁰ κἄμ’ ¹¹⁹¹ ἐθήρων ¹¹⁹² θηράσουσι ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-526-1 ῥύσιον ¹¹⁹⁴ φόνον φόνου … ῥύσιον τείσω ¹¹⁹⁵ φόνου ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-526-2 τοῦ δοκοῦντος ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-526-3 οὐδὲν εἰδέναι κακόν ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-527-1 ὄλοιο ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-527-2 μήπω ¹²⁰⁰ μήπω ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-527-3 πρὶν μάθοιμ’ ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-527-4 εἰ καὶ πάλιν ¹²⁰³ καὶ ¹²⁰⁴ εἰ ¹²⁰⁵ καὶ ¹²⁰⁶ εἰ καὶ πάλιν ¹²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-527-5 καὶ ¹²⁰⁸ πάλιν ¹²⁰⁹ μετοίσεις ¹²¹⁰ πάλιν μετοίσεις ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-528-1 δρῶμεν ¹²¹²

mvp-comment-528-2 ἐν σοὶ ¹²¹³

mvp-comment-528-3 προσχωρεῖν ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-529-1 ἐμοὶ μὲν ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-529-2 ἐμπέπτωκε ¹²¹⁶ οὐ νῦν πρῶτον ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-530-1 ἐλἐησον ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-530-2 παρῇς σαυτοῦ βρ. ὄνειδος ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-530-3 ἐκκλέψας ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-531-1 μήποτ’ ¹²²¹ λιπεῖν ¹²²² ὤφελον ¹²²³

mvp-comment-531-2 Σκῦρον ¹²²⁴

mvp-comment-532-1 νῦν δ’ ἄλλοισι δοὺς ¹²²⁵ οἷς εἰκός ¹²²⁶ οὐκ εἶ κακὸς σύ ¹²²⁷ ἄλλοισι ¹²²⁸

mvp-comment-532-2 Other interpretations are: (1) δοὺς ¹²²⁹ ἄλλοις σε δοὺς ¹²³⁰ οἷα ¹²³¹ ἄλλοισι ¹²³²

mvp-comment-532-3 974 We are to suppose that Odysseus,—disquieted when he found that the

(627) was not quickly followed by N.,—had set out to inquire into the cause of the delay. From a place of concealment close to the scene he has overheard the last part of the conversation, and now, at the critical moment, he springs forward. The abruptness of his entrance is marked by the divided verse ( ).

mvp-comment-532-4 975 Join εἶ … πάλιν ¹²³³

mvp-comment-533-1 πέπραμαι ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-534-1 ἅμ’ αὐτοῖς ¹²³⁵ στελοῦσί σε ¹²³⁶ αὐτοῖς ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-535-1 τολμήστατε ¹²³⁸

mvp-comment-536-1 οἵδ’ ¹²³⁹

mvp-comment-536-2 μὴ ἕρπῃς ¹²⁴⁰ η ¹²⁴¹ ε ¹²⁴² α ¹²⁴³ γ’ ¹²⁴⁴ ἕρπῃς ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-536-3 986 f. For the voc. combined with nom., cp. 867 n.

mvp-comment-536-4 τὸ παγκρατὲς σέλας Ἡφαιστότευκτον ¹²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-536-5 The Lemnians had an early repute as workers in iron: Tzetzes on Lycophr. 460

. The local cult and the local industry of Lemnos were both expressed by its name (‘sooty’), acc. to Polybius ap. Byz. Steph. s. v. . The same name was given to Ilva (Elba), on account of its iron-stone.

mvp-comment-537-1 εἰ … ἀπάξεται ¹²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-537-2 τῶν σῶν ¹²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-538-1 Ζεύς ¹²⁴⁹ ἵν’ εἰδῇς ¹²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-539-1 μῖσος ¹²⁵¹

mvp-comment-539-2 καὶ ἐξανευρίσκεις ¹²⁵² λέγειν ¹²⁵³ λέγων ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-540-1 προτείνων ¹²⁵⁵ ψευδεῖς τίθης ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-541-1 ἀληθεῖς ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-541-2 ἡ δ’ ὁδὸς ¹²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-542-1 οὐ φήμ’ ¹²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-542-2 ἐγὼ δὲ φημί ¹²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-542-3 πειστέον τάδε ¹²⁶¹

mvp-comment-543-1 ἡμᾶς μὲν ¹²⁶²

mvp-comment-544-1 τοῖς ἀρίστοισιν ¹²⁶³

mvp-comment-544-2 κατασκάψαι ¹²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-545-1 οὐδέποτέ γ’ ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-545-2 πᾶν … κακόν ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-545-3 γῆς τόδ’ αἰπεινὸν βάθρον ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-546-1 ἐργασείεις ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-547-1 πέτρᾳ ¹²⁶⁹ αἱμάξω ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-547-2 πέτρας ¹²⁷¹ πεσών ¹²⁷² ἄνωθεν ¹²⁷³

mvp-comment-548-1 ξυλλάβετον αὐτόν ¹²⁷⁴ ξυλλάβετ’ αὐτόν ¹²⁷⁵ γε ¹²⁷⁶ ξυλλάβετε ¹²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-548-2 μὴ )πὶ τῷδ’ ¹²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-549-1 ὦ χεῖρες ¹²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-549-2 ἐν χρείᾳ ¹²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-549-3 συνθηρώμεναι ¹²⁸¹

mvp-comment-550-1 ὦ μηδὲν ὑγιὲς … φρονῶν ¹²⁸²

mvp-comment-550-2 μηδὲν ὑγιές ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-550-3 ἐλεύθερον ¹²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-551-1 οἷ’ αὖ μ’ ὑπῆλθες ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-551-2 ὑπῆλθες ¹²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-552-1 πρόβλημα ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-553-1 ἀνάξιον μὲν σοῦ ¹²⁸⁸ σοῦ ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-553-2 οὐδὲν ᾔδει πλὴν ¹²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-554-1 καὶ νῦν ¹²⁹¹

mvp-comment-554-2 οἷς ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-555-1 διὰ μυχῶν βλέπους’ ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-555-2 ἀφυᾶ ¹²⁹⁴ ‐εα ¹²⁹⁵ ε ¹²⁹⁶ ‐εᾶ ¹²⁹⁷ ι ¹²⁹⁸ υ ¹²⁹⁹ ‐ιᾶ ¹³⁰⁰ ‐λῆ; ‐υᾶ ¹³⁰¹ ‐υῆ ¹³⁰² ᾶ ¹³⁰³ ῆ ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-555-3 προὐδίδαξεν ¹³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-556-1 συνδήσας ¹³⁰⁶ ἄγειν ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-556-2 προὐβάλου ¹³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-556-3 ἄπολιν ¹³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-557-1 θεοὶ ¹³¹⁰

mvp-comment-557-2 1022 ff. Seyffert puts a comma after ζῶ ¹³¹¹ σὺν κακοῖς πολλοῖς ¹³¹² γελώμενος ¹³¹³ σὺν κακοῖς πολλοῖς ¹³¹⁴ ζῶ ¹³¹⁵ σὺν κακοῖς πολλοῖς ¹³¹⁶ ζῶ ¹³¹⁷

mvp-comment-557-3 τῶν Ἀτρέως … στρατηγῶν ¹³¹⁸

mvp-comment-558-1 κλοπῇ τε κἀνάγκῃ ζυγεὶς ¹³¹⁹ ζυγεὶς ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-559-1 ἑπτὰ ναυσὶ ¹³²¹

mvp-comment-560-1 ἔβαλον ¹³²² ὡς σὺ φής ¹³²³

mvp-comment-561-1 ἄγετε ¹³²⁴ ἀπάγεσθε ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-561-2 οὐδέν εἰμι ¹³²⁶ τέθνηχ’ ὑμῖν ¹³²⁷

mvp-comment-562-1 σοι ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-562-2 δυσώδης ¹³²⁹

mvp-comment-562-3 πῶς … ἔξεσθ’, ὁμοῦ ¹³³⁰ πῶς … εὔξεσθ’, ἐμοῦ ¹³³¹ εὔξεσθ’ ¹³³² εὔξεσθ’ ¹³³³ ἔξεσθ’ ¹³³⁴ ὁμοῦ ¹³³⁵ ἐμοῦ ¹³³⁶ εὔξεσθ’ ἐμοῦ ¹³³⁷ ἔξεστ’ ἐμοῦ ¹³³⁸ ἔξεσθ’ ὁμοῦ ¹³³⁹ θ’ ¹³⁴⁰ θεοῖς ¹³⁴¹

mvp-comment-562-4 Against ἔξεσθ’ ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-563-1 ὄλοισθ)· ὀλεῖσθε δ’ ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-564-1 μέλει γ’ ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-564-2 ἐπεὶ οὔποτ’ ¹³⁴⁵ ἀνδρὸς ἀθλίου ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-564-3 1039 For the place of τι ¹³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-564-4 κέντρον … ἐμοῦ ¹³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-565-1 θεοί τ’ ἐπόψιοι ¹³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-565-2 Thus the invocation of πατρῴα γῆ ¹³⁵⁰ ἐπόψιοι ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-566-1 τείσασθε ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-566-2 ἀλλὰ τῷ χρόνῳ ¹³⁵³

mvp-comment-567-1 κἄμ’ ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-568-1 τῆς vόσου ¹³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-569-1 βαρύς ¹³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-569-2 κοὐχ ὑπείκ. ¹³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-570-1 παρείκοι ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-570-2 ἑνὸς κρατῶ λόγου ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-571-1 γὰρ ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-571-2 τοιούτων ¹³⁶¹ τοιούτων ¹³⁶² πανούργων ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-571-3 κρίσις ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-571-4 μου ¹³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-572-1 νικᾶν ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-572-2 γε μέντοι ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-572-3 εἰς σέ ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-572-4 ἐκστήσομαι ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-573-1 ἄφετε γὰρ αὐτόν ¹³⁷⁰ γὰρ ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-573-2 οὐδὲ σοῦ ¹³⁷² οὐδέ σου ¹³⁷³ προσχρῄζομεν ¹³⁷⁴ σοῦ ¹³⁷⁵ τά γ’ ὅπλ’ ¹³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-574-1 Τεῦκρος ¹³⁷⁷ τήνδ’ ἐπιστήμην ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-574-2 παρ’ ἡμῖν ¹³⁷⁹ πάρεστι ¹³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-575-1 ἐγώ θ’ ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-575-2 μηδ’ ἐπιθύνειν ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-575-3 After a verb of thinking or saying,

is the ordinary negative with the inf.: but sometimes occurs ( O. T. 1455 n., 2nd ed.). Here the question is, why the second inf. should have μηδ’ ¹³⁸³ οὐδὲν ¹³⁸⁴ οὐδὲν ¹³⁸⁵ κάκιον ¹³⁸⁶ κρατύνειν ¹³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-575-4 (2) The less probable view is that οὐδὲν ¹³⁸⁸ κρατύνειν ¹³⁸⁹ μηδ’ ¹³⁹⁰ ἐπιθύνειν ¹³⁹¹ οἶμαι ¹³⁹² οὐ ¹³⁹³ μηδέ ¹³⁹⁴ οὐ … μηδέ ¹³⁹⁵ οὐ … οὐδέ ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-575-5 Nauck's conjecture, ἠδ’ ἐπευθύνειν ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-576-1 τὴν Αῆμνον ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-577-1 γέρας ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-577-2 ἣν σὲ χρῆν ¹⁴⁰⁰ ἣν σ’ ἐχρῆν ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-577-3 1064 Since ἐν ¹⁴⁰² Ἀργείοις ¹⁴⁰³ ὅπλοισι κοσμηθεὶς ¹⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-578-1 μή μ’ ἀντιφώνει ¹⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-578-2 δή ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-579-1 προσφθεγκτός ¹⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-579-2 οὕτως ¹⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-580-1 γενναῖός περ ὤν ¹⁴⁰⁹ τὴν τύχην διαφθερεῖς ¹⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-580-2 ὅπως μὴ ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-581-1 ναυκράτωρ ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-582-1 ἀκούσομαι ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-583-1 εἰς ὅσον ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-583-2 τά … ἐκ νεὼς στείλωσι ¹⁴¹⁵ στείλωσι ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-583-3 θεοῖς εὐξώμεθα ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-584-1 ὁρμώμεθον ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-585-1 ὁρμᾶσθαι ¹⁴¹⁹ ταχεῖς ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-586-1 γύαλον ¹⁴²¹ κοίλας πέτρας ¹⁴²²

mvp-comment-586-2 θερμὸν καὶ παγετῶδες ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-587-1 θνῄσκοντι συνείσει ¹⁴²⁴ συνοίσει ¹⁴²⁵ συνοίσει ¹⁴²⁶ συνοίσει ¹⁴²⁷ συνοίσεις ¹⁴²⁸ συνοίσει ¹⁴²⁹ συνείσει ¹⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-588-1 αὔλιον ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-588-2 λύπας τᾶς ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ¹⁴³² πληρέστατον ¹⁴³³

mvp-comment-589-1 τίπτ’ αὖ ¹⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-589-2 τὸ κατ’ ἆμαρ ¹⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-590-1 σιτονόμου … ἐλπίδος ¹⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-590-2 τοῦ … πόθεν ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-590-3 1092 ff. A discussion of this passage, and a notice of conjectures, will be found in the Appendix. Here I briefly give the results.

mvp-comment-590-4 πέλειαι δ’ ἄνω ¹⁴³⁸ εἴθ’ ¹⁴³⁹ μ’ ἕλοιεν ¹⁴⁴⁰ ἕλωσί μ’ ¹⁴⁴¹ ἐλῶσιν ¹⁴⁴² ἕλωσί μ’ ¹⁴⁴³ ἴσχω ¹⁴⁴⁴ ἰσχύω ¹⁴⁴⁵ αἰθέρος ¹⁴⁴⁶ εἴθ’ ¹⁴⁴⁷ πτωκάδες ¹⁴⁴⁸ αἰθίρος ¹⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-590-5 But if so, the corruption has been a deep one; i.e., εἴθ’ αἰθέρος ¹⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-590-6 ὀξυτόνου … πνεύματος ¹⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-590-7 οὐκέτ’ ἴσχω ¹⁴⁵² οὐ γὰρ ἔτ’ ἰσχύω ¹⁴⁵³ ἐλῶς)· ἔτ’ οὐ γὰρ ἴσχω ¹⁴⁵⁴ γὰρ ¹⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-591-1 σύ τοι … ἀπὸ μείζονος ¹⁴⁵⁶ κοὐκ ¹⁴⁵⁷ οὐκ ¹⁴⁵⁸ ἄλλοθεν ἔχει τύχᾳ τᾷδ’ ¹⁴⁵⁹ ἔσχ’ ὑπὸ χειρὸς ἐμᾶς ¹⁴⁶⁰ ἔχει ¹⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-591-2 κατηξίωσας ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-591-3 ἔχει τύχᾳ τᾷδ’ ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-591-4 ἀπὸ μείζονος ¹⁴⁶⁴ ἄλλοθεν ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-592-1 παρὸν ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-592-2 φρονῆσαι ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-592-3 The gen. τοῦ … δαίμονος ¹⁴⁶⁸ εἵλον ¹⁴⁶⁹ εἵλου τὸ κάκιον αἰνεῖν ¹⁴⁷⁰ αἰνεῖν ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-592-4 τοῦ λῴονος δαίμονος ¹⁴⁷² ωι ¹⁴⁷³ ο ¹⁴⁷⁴ αι ¹⁴⁷⁵ οι ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-592-5 Are we, then, to admit the v. l. τοῦ πλέονος ¹⁴⁷⁷ τοῦ ¹⁴⁷⁸ λωΐονος ¹⁴⁷⁹ λωϊτέρου ¹⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-592-6 I should like to read

. The loss of might have led to being added by some one who thought that the first syll. of could be short.

mvp-comment-593-1 ἤδη ¹⁴⁸¹ ὕστερον … εἰσοπίσω ¹⁴⁸² ὕστερον ¹⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-594-1 προσφέρων ¹⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-595-1 οὐ πτανῶν … ἴσχων ¹⁴⁸⁵ πτανῶν ἀπ’ ἐμῶν ὅπλων ¹⁴⁸⁶ ἴσχων ¹⁴⁸⁷ πτανῶν ¹⁴⁸⁸ κραταιαῖς ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-596-1 ἄσκοπα ¹⁴⁹⁰ ὑπέδυ ¹⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-597-1 ἰδοίμαν ¹⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-598-1 πότμος … δαιμόνων ¹⁴⁹³ τάδε ¹⁴⁹⁴ σε πότμος … ἔσχεν ¹⁴⁹⁵ πότμος σε τάδε ¹⁴⁹⁶ ἔσχεν ¹⁴⁹⁷ ἔσχεν ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-598-2 οὐδὲ σέ γε ¹⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-598-3 ἀμᾶς ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-599-1 στυγερὰν ¹⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-599-2 ἐπ’ ἄλλοις ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-600-1 καὶ γὰρ ἐμοὶ ¹⁵⁰³ τοῦτο ¹⁵⁰⁴ μέλει ¹⁵⁰⁵ μὴ … ἀπώσῃ ¹⁵⁰⁶ τοῦτο ¹⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-601-1 πολιᾶς ¹⁵⁰⁸ ἐφημένος ¹⁵⁰⁹ που ¹⁵¹⁰

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is my emendation of γελᾷ μου ¹⁵¹¹ ἐγ ¹⁵¹² ἐγγελᾷ ¹⁵¹³ μου ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-602-1 τὰν ἐμὰν μελέου ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-602-2 τροφάν ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-603-1 ἦ που ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-603-2 τὸν Ἡράκλειον ἄρθμιον ¹⁵¹⁸ ἄρθμιον ¹⁵¹⁹ ἄθλιον ¹⁵²⁰ Ἡράκλειον ¹⁵²¹

mvp-comment-604-1 ἄλλου δ’ ἐν μεταλλαγᾷ ¹⁵²² ἀλλ’ ἐν μεταλλαγᾷ ¹⁵²³ ἐν ¹⁵²⁴ μεταλλαγᾷ ¹⁵²⁵ ἄλλου ¹⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-604-2 ἐρέσσει ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-604-3 Cavallin's conject., ἀλλ’ αἰὲν μετ’ ἀγκάλαις ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-605-1 ὁρῶν μὲν ¹⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-605-2 στυγνόν τε ¹⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-605-3 φῶτ’ ἐχθοδοπόν ¹⁵³¹

mvp-comment-605-4 ὦ Ζεῦ ¹⁵³² Ὀδυσσεύς ¹⁵³³ ὦ Ζεῦ ¹⁵³⁴ ὃς ¹⁵³⁵ ὅς’ ¹⁵³⁶ ἀνατέλλονθ’ ¹⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-605-5 Next to ὦ Ζεῦ ¹⁵³⁸ οὐδείς ¹⁵³⁹ ἀνατέλλονθ’ ¹⁵⁴⁰ ὅς’ ¹⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-606-1 ἀνδρός τοι τὰ μὲν ἔνδικ’ αἰὲν εἰπεῖν ¹⁵⁴² ἀνδρός τοι τὸ μὲν εὖ δίκαιον εἰπεῖν ¹⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-606-2 τὰ ¹⁵⁴⁴ τὸ, ν ¹⁵⁴⁵ υ ¹⁵⁴⁶ ε ¹⁵⁴⁷ ο ¹⁵⁴⁸ αἰὲν ¹⁵⁴⁹ λέγειν ¹⁵⁵⁰ αἰὲν εἰπεῖν ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-606-3 The only sound version of the vulgate, ἀνδρός τοι τὸ μὲν εὖ δίκαιον εἰπεῖν ¹⁵⁵² τὸ εὖ ¹⁵⁵³ τὸ εὖ ¹⁵⁵⁴ εἰπόντος δὲ ¹⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-607-1 εἰπόντος δὲ … ὀδύναν ¹⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-607-2 ἐξῶσαι ¹⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-607-3 γλώσσας ὀδύναν ¹⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-608-1 κεῖνος δ’ ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-608-2 εἷς ἀπὸ πολλῶν ταχθεὶς ¹⁵⁶⁰ ὑπὸ ¹⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-608-3 ἐφημοσύνᾳ ¹⁵⁶² τῶνδ’ ¹⁵⁶³ τοῦδ’ ¹⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-608-4 ἐς φίλους ¹⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-609-1 χαροπῶν ¹⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-610-1 οὐρεσιβώτας ¹⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-610-2 1149 f. *

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μηδᾶτ’

. The MSS. give φυγᾷ μ’ οὐκέτ<*> ἀπ’ αὐλίων ¹⁵⁶⁸ πελᾶτ’ ¹⁵⁶⁹ πελᾶτ’ ¹⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-610-3 Auratus and Canter saw that μ’ οὐκέτ’ ¹⁵⁷¹ μηκέτ’ ¹⁵⁷² ἐλᾶτ’ ¹⁵⁷³ πηδᾶτ’ ¹⁵⁷⁴ πηδᾶτ’ ¹⁵⁷⁵ πελᾶτ’ ¹⁵⁷⁶ μηκέτ’ ¹⁵⁷⁷ μ’ οὐκέτ’ ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-610-4 The metre would be restored by reading

. But a simpler remedy is to place φυγᾷ ¹⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-611-1 ἀλλ’ ἀνέδην ¹⁵⁸⁰ ἀνέδην ¹⁵⁸¹ ἐρύκεται ¹⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-611-2 In the Journ. Phil. II. p. 80 (1869) I proposed the emendation which I believe to be true. ἐρύκεται ¹⁵⁸³ ἄρ’ οὐκέτι ¹⁵⁸⁴ χῶρος ¹⁵⁸⁵ α ¹⁵⁸⁶ ἀνέδην ¹⁵⁸⁷ ἄρα ¹⁵⁸⁸ οὐκέτι ¹⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-611-3 The simple transposition, φοβητός, οὐκέθ’ ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-612-1 νῦν καλὸν ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-612-2 ἀντίφονον ¹⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-612-3 πρὸς χάριν ¹⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-612-4 αἰόλας ¹⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-613-1 ἀπὸ … λείψω ¹⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-614-1 ἐν αὔ, ιις τρέφεται ¹⁵⁹⁶ ἐν ¹⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-615-1 μηκέτι ¹⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-615-2 μηδενὸς ¹⁵⁹⁹ ὅσα ¹⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-615-3 πέμπει ¹⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-615-4 βιόδωρος ¹⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-616-1 εἴ τι σέβει ξένον ¹⁶⁰³ εὐνοίᾳ πάσᾳ πελάταν ¹⁶⁰⁴ πέλασσον ¹⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-616-2 Philoctetes is at the mouth of his cave, as if about to enter it (952): the Chorus now advance a little towards him, as they make this earnest appeal. The position of πέλασσον ¹⁶⁰⁶ εὐν. π. πελάταν ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-616-3 Arndt conjectures:

: ‘if thou hast too little respect for a guest-friend, at least ( ) think’ of thine own interest. Such a use of would be obscure; and the supposed antithesis of ideas seems forced; since, even if he did ‘revere the stranger,’ that feeling would not be his only motive for leaving Lemnos.

mvp-comment-617-1 ἐπὶ σοὶ ¹⁶⁰⁸ ὅτι σοι ¹⁶⁰⁹ σοί ¹⁶¹⁰ ὅτι σόν ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-618-1 βόσκειν ¹⁶¹² μέν ¹⁶¹³

mvp-comment-618-2 ἀδαὴς δ’ ἔχειν ¹⁶¹⁴ ὀχεῖν ¹⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-618-3 ὃ ξυνοικεῖ ¹⁶¹⁶ ὃ ¹⁶¹⁷ ᾧ ¹⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-619-1 παλαιὸν ἄλγημ’ ¹⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-619-2 ὑπέμνασας ¹⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-619-3 τῶν πρὶν ἐντόπων ¹⁶²¹

mvp-comment-620-1 ὤλεσας ¹⁶²²

mvp-comment-620-2 εἴργασαι ¹⁶²³

mvp-comment-621-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἔλεξας ¹⁶²⁴ εἰ … ἤλπισας ¹⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-621-2 ἄξειν ¹⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-622-1 ἀπό … λείπετ’ ¹⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-622-2 νυν ¹⁶²⁸ νοῶ ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-623-1 φίλα μοι … παρήγγειλας ἑκόντι τε πράσσειν ¹⁶³⁰ τε ¹⁶³¹ ἑκόντι ¹⁶³² ἑκόντα ¹⁶³³ τε ¹⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-624-1 ναὸς ¹⁶³⁵ ἵν’ ἡμῖν τέτακται ¹⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-625-1 ἀραίου Διός ¹⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-625-2 ἔλθῃς ¹⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-625-3 1183 The older edd. give μετρίαζε ¹⁶³⁹ μετρίαζ’ ¹⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-626-1 δαίμων ¹⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-627-1 ὦ ποὺς πούς ¹⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-627-2 τί σε τεύξω ¹⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-627-3 μετόπιν ¹⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-628-1 ἔλθετ’ ἐπήλυδες ¹⁶⁴⁵ αὖθις ¹⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-629-1 τί ῥέξοντες ¹⁶⁴⁷ γνώμᾳ ἀλλοκότῳ τῶν πάρος ¹⁶⁴⁸ ὧν ¹⁶⁴⁹ προὔφαινες ¹⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-629-2 The objection to the plausible conjecture ῥέξοντος ¹⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-630-1 οὔτοι νεμεσητόν ¹⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-630-2 ἀλύοντα ¹⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-630-3 χειμερίῳ ¹⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-630-4 καὶ παρὰ νοῦν θροεῖν ¹⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-631-1 οὐδ’ εἰ πυρφόρος ἀστεροπητὴς ¹⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-631-2 βροντᾶς αὐγαῖς ¹⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-631-3 εἶσι φλογίζων ¹⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-632-1 ἐρρέτω Ἴλιον ¹⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-632-2 οἵ θ’ ὑπ’ ἐκείνῳ ¹⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-632-3 τόδ’ ἐμοῦ ποδὸς ἄρθρον ¹⁶⁶¹ ἀπῶσαι ¹⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-633-1 ἀλλ’ ¹⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-633-2 ὀρέξατε ¹⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-634-1 ἐρεῖς ¹⁶⁶⁵ εἴ ποθεν ¹⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-634-2 γένυν ¹⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-634-3 προπέμψατε ¹⁶⁶⁸ εἴ ποθεν ¹⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-635-1 ὡς τίνα δὴ ῥέξῃς ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-635-2 παλάμαν ¹⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-635-3 1207 *

, Hermann's correction of κρᾶτ’ ¹⁶⁷² Χρῶτα πάντα ¹⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-635-4 If the MS. κρᾶτ’ ¹⁶⁷⁴ πάντα ¹⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-636-1 φονᾷ ¹⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-636-2 τί ποτε ¹⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-636-3 πατέρα ματεύων ¹⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-636-4 In vv. 492 ff. he had expressed the fear that his aged father must be dead; and here, in the bitterness of despair—when he feels himself utterly friendless upon earth—he utters a yearning to join Poeas in the world below. At brighter moments, again—when there is a gleam of hope that he may return to Malis—he thinks of his father as still living (665, 1371). And Heracles tells him that Poeas is indeed alive (1430).

mvp-comment-637-1 οὐ γὰρ ἐν φάει γ’ ἔτι ¹⁶⁷⁹ ἐν ¹⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-638-1 ὦ πόλις ¹⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-639-1 πῶς ἂν ¹⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-639-2 ἄθλιός γ’ ἀνήρ ¹⁶⁸³ γε ¹⁶⁸⁴ ὅς ¹⁶⁸⁵ ἄθλιος ¹⁶⁸⁶ εἰσίδοιμί ς’ ¹⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-640-1 ἱερὰν λιβάδ’ ¹⁶⁸⁸ ἐχθροῖς ¹⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-640-2 ἔτ’ οὐδέν εἰμι ¹⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-641-1 Much suspicion has fallen upon these verses. Some critics, indeed, hold that the only resource is to write them anew (see cr. n.). The points to which objection is made are the following.

mvp-comment-641-2 (1) ὁμοῦ ¹⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-641-3 (2) στείχων ¹⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-641-4 (3) στείχοντα ¹⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-641-5 (4) πρὸς ἡμᾶς δεῦρ’ ἰόντ’ ¹⁶⁹⁴ ἰόντ’ ¹⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-641-6 On the whole, I incline to think that these four vv. are sound, though (like vv. 265 ff.) they are somewhat carelessly written.

mvp-comment-642-1 στείχων ἂν ἦ σοι ¹⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-643-1 ἐλεύσσομεν ¹⁶⁹⁷ ἦ ¹⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-644-1 οὐκ ἂν φράσειας ¹⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-644-2 παλίντροπος ¹⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-644-3 κέλευθον ¹⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-644-4 σὺν σπουδῇ ταχύς ¹⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-645-1 λύσων ¹⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-646-1 δεινόν γε φωνεῖς ¹⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-647-1 ἣν σοὶ πιθόμενος ¹⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-648-1 ὧν οὔ σοι πρέπον ¹⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-649-1 ἑλών ¹⁷⁰⁷ ποῖον ¹⁷⁰⁸ ἣν ¹⁷⁰⁹ ἑλών ¹⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-650-1 νέον ¹⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-651-1 ὥς μ’ ὑπῆλθέ τις φόβος ¹⁷¹² ὡς ¹⁷¹³ τοι ¹⁷¹⁴ ὑπήλυθεν ¹⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-652-1 παρ’ οὗπερ ἔλαβον ¹⁷¹⁶