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Pearson 4 ff.

4 ff. Something like δεινὸν γὰρ ἔστ' ἐμῇ δὲ δύσλοφον may have stood in l. 4' (Hunt). But the connexion with the following line is doubtful, and the acc. βοῦς seems to require for its government a verb of stealing or losing. The latter is perhaps the easier to work in: e.g. δεινὸν γὰρ ἄλγος ἠδὲ δύσλοφον φρενὶ (so Mekler) | ἔπεστ' ἀφαιρεθέντι. Hunt is probably right in supposing that the cattle are divided as 'milch-kine,' calves, and heifers, but the restoration of v. 6 is not easy. The conjectures of Wilamowitz τε καὶ νέων νόμευμα (perhaps too long) and νεανίευμα are condemned by their halting metre, and Mekler's τε πίόν τ᾽ ἀγλάισμα is not convincing.

Ichneutae. Alfred Chilton Pearson. ed. Alfred Chilton Pearson. . 2026-09-15.

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Greek (A. S. Hunt, 1912; Perseus reference) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. S. Hunt, 1912; Perseus reference)) — 1 focus

Ἀπόλλων

]κιο[
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]πειτα[

] ἐπεσσύθ[ην

]γ[ ]λ[
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]ω[

[πᾶσιν θεοῖς καὶ πᾶσι]ν ἀγγέλλω [β]ροτο[ῖς

[καὶ δῶρʼ ὑπις]χνοῦμαι τελεῖ[ν

[ ἀ]πόπροθεν·

ον[ δύς]λοφον φρενὶ
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τα[ βο]ῦς ἀμολγάδας

[μός]χους [τε καὶ νέων νόμευμ]α πορτίδων

[ἅπα]ντα φρ[οῦδα καὶ μάτη]ν ἰχνοσκοπῶ

[λαθ]ραῖʼ ἰόν[τα τῆλε βου]στάθμου κάπης

[ἀφα]νῶς τέχνα[ισιν· ὡς ἐ]γὼ οὐκ ἂν ᾠόμην
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[οὔτʼ ἂ]ν θεῶν τιν[ʼ οὔτʼ ἐφημ]έρων βροτῶν

[δρᾶς]αι τόδʼ ἔργ[ον ὧδερσθβ; πρὸς τόλμαν πεσεῖν.

[ταῦτ]ʼ οὖν ἐπείπερ [ἔμα]θον ἐκπλαγεὶς ὄκνῳ

[στείχ]ῶ, ματεύω, παντελὲς κήρυγμʼ ἔχων

[θεοῖ]ς βροτοῖς τε μηδένʼ ἀγνοεῖν τάδε.
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[ἀκολο]υθίᾳ γὰρ ἐμμανὴς κυνηγετῶ·

[Θρᾳκ]ῶν δʼ ἐπῆλθ[ο]ν φ[ῦ]λα τ[οῦ] παντὸς στρατ[οῦ

[ἀλλʼ οὔ]τις[ ¹]

²

ς
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λ κιο

ις ἔπειτα [δὲ

[τ]ὰ Θεσσαλῶν [τʼ ἔγκαρπα πεδίʼ ἐ]πεσσύθ[ην
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Βοιωτίας τε γ[ῆς πολυκτήτου]ς [πό]λ]εις,

[ἔπει]τα δʼ[

³ 2

ς Δωρικο[

[ γεί]τονʼ ἐνθ[εν
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[ ]ήκω ξυν[]α[

[ Κυλ]λήνης τε δύ[σβατον

[ ]τε χῶρον, ἐς δʼ ὑλ[

[ὡς εἴτε ποι]μὴν εἴτʼ ἀγρωστή[ρων τις ἢ

[μαριλοκαυ]τῶν ἐν λόγῳ παρ[ίσταται
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[ἢ τῶν ὀρ]είων νυμφογεννή[του γένους

[θηρῶ]ν τίς ἐστι, πᾶσιν ἀγγέλ[λω τάδε,

[τὸν φ]ῶρα τῶν Παιῶνος ὅστις ἂ[ν λάβῃ,

[τῷδʼ α]ὐτόχρημα μισθός ἐσθʼ ὁ κε[ίμενος.

Σιληνός

[ὦ Φοῖβε,] σοῦ φώνημαθʼ ὡς ἐπέκλυον
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[βοῶ]ντος ὀρθίοισι σὺν κηρύγμας[ι,

[ς]πουδῇ τάδʼ, ἣ πάρεστι πρεσβύτῃ [μαθών

[ς]οί, Φοῖβʼ Ἄπολλον, προσφιλὴς εὐε[ργέτης

θέλων γενέσθαι τῷδʼ ἐπεσσύθην δρ[ό]μ[ῳ,

ἄν πως τὸ χρῆμα τοῦτό σοι κυνηγ[έ]σω.
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τ[ὸ]τʼ αγγε[λό]ς μοι κείμενον χρ[υ]σο[ν ς]τέφε

μά[λι]στʼ ἐπ αις[ι π]ρόσθε ς ν,

παῖδας δʼ εμ[οὺ]ς ὄσσοισι αυε βα

[ ιμ]ʼ [ἂ]ν εἴπερ ἐκτε[λ]εῖς ἅπερ λέγεις

Ἀπόλλων

[ ]ώσω· μοῦνον ἐμπ[έδου τ]άδε.
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Σιληνός

τα[ς βοῦς ἀπάξω ς]οι· σὺ δʼ ἐμπέδου [δόσι]ν.

Ἀπόλλων

[ἕξει σφʼ ὁ γʼ εὑ]ρὼν ὅστι[ς] ἔ[ς]θʼ· ἑτ[οῖμ]α δ[έ.

Σιληνός

[ ]ις ε ζητ [

Ἀπόλλων

[ ]εσο[ 3

⁴
60

Ἀπόλλων

α[ ]

Σιληνός

τί τοῦτο; πο[ι λέγ]εις;

Ἀπόλλων

ἐλεύθερος σὺ [πᾶν τε γένος ἔσται τέκν]ων.

Translations (1)

English (Anne Mahoney, adapted from Walker) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anne Mahoney, adapted from Walker)) — 1 focus

The scene is outdoors. There is a cave upstage center (represented by the skene door). Enter Apollo, right.¹

Apollo

I, Apollo, proclaim to all gods and all mortal men: ²I shall give a golden basin to whoever can bring back my cattle from far away.
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It is quite unpleasant to me that they are gone, all of them: cows, calves, heifers. They are all gone, and I look in vain for their tracks, while they wander far from their own mangers. I never thought that any of the gods or of men, whose lives are like a single day, would dare do such a thing. Since I found out about this, shocked as I was, I have been seeking them, and I have proclaimed the deed
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so that no god or mortal men could be unaware of it. I am beside myself. I have gone to visit the whole nation of the Locrians, those who inhabit Opus, those in Ozolis, those in Knemis by the Cephisus. I have gone to Aetolia and to Acarnanian Argos. From there I came to the grove of Zeus at Dodona , shaded by leaves of prophecy. I then hastened to the fruitful plains of Thessaly
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and the wealthy cities of Boeotia . And then I came to Attica , to holy Athens , but I see my cows nowhere. 2 Then I came to Dorian Argos and the nearby hill. From there I came, in one leap, to the Stymphalian Lake and Mount Cyllene, hard to climb. I speak to the forest: if any shepherd or any rustic or any charcoal-burner is here,
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or any saytr from the mountains, child of the river-nymphs, I announce these things to one and all. Whoever can capture the one who stole the cattle of Apollo Paean, his is the reward that stands here.
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Enter Silenus, left.³

Silenus

As soon as I heard you shouting your proclamation, I came as fast as an old man can, because I want to help you out, Phoebus Apollo,
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and perhaps I can hunt up your cattle. Then a messenger will announce my golden reward. I will tell my children to look carefully, if you really do mean to do what you’ve promised.
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Apollo

I will indeed; only confirm your promise.
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Silenus

I will bring you back your cattle; but you confirm the reward.

Apollo

Whoever finds them will have it; it is ready at hand.

Silenus

seek

Apollo

3

Silenus

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Apollo

Silenus

What? What are you saying?

Apollo

I say that you, and all the race of your children, will be free.

Exit Apollo, right.

Commentary

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mvp-comment-119-1 227 f. are not easy to restore. The sentence appears to be constructed similarly to Rhes. 875 οὐ γὰρ ἐς σὲ τείνεται | γλῶσσ᾽, ὡς σὺ κομπεῖς. Hence I was inclined to read αἰτίαι φωρῶν κάτα | γλώσσης ἐτείνοντ' ἐς κλοπὴν ἠνιγμέναι (or τετραμμέναι), but αἰτίαι is impossible and ἐτείνο[ ντ'] ἐς is barely consistent with the traces. Hunt thought that the letter before αι was κ (i.e. καί), but could not find a suitable word to precede it which might be the subject of ἐτείνετ'. He also believed that εναι was the remnant of a perfect infinitive; but it would be difficult to accommodate one to the context. ἂν appears to be iterative. αὐτις, which the recurrence in 229 makes almost certain ( ἀν' αὐλήν, Murray), is proved to be Attic by the new Menander (Epitr. 362, Sam. 281, 292). See Wila-

mvp-comment-119-2 mowitz in Sitzungsb. k. Pr. Akad., 1907 p. 872. Hitherto it has been treated as Ionic by the authorities (Weir Smyth, Ionic Dialect, p. 298). L gives αὐτις in O. C. 234 and elsewhere, and the editors have perhaps been too hasty in rejecting it. See also fr. 599.

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Ἀπόλλων

[ ]ώσω· μοῦνον ἐμπ[έδου τ]άδε.
55

Σιληνός

τα[ς βοῦς ἀπάξω ς]οι· σὺ δʼ ἐμπέδου [δόσι]ν.

Ἀπόλλων

[ἕξει σφʼ ὁ γʼ εὑ]ρὼν ὅστι[ς] ἔ[ς]θʼ· ἑτ[οῖμ]α δ[έ.

Σιληνός

[ ]ις ε ζητ [

Ἀπόλλων

[ ]εσο[ 3

⁴
60

Ἀπόλλων

α[ ]

Σιληνός

τί τοῦτο; πο[ι λέγ]εις;

Ἀπόλλων

ἐλεύθερος σὺ [πᾶν τε γένος ἔσται τέκν]ων.

Apollo

I will indeed; only confirm your promise.
55

Silenus

I will bring you back your cattle; but you confirm the reward.

Apollo

Whoever finds them will have it; it is ready at hand.

Silenus

seek

Apollo

3

Silenus

⁴
60

Apollo

Silenus

What? What are you saying?

Apollo

I say that you, and all the race of your children, will be free.

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Ἀπόλλων [ ]ώσω· μοῦνον ἐμπ[έδου τ]άδε. 55

Σιληνός τα[ς βοῦς ἀπάξω ς]οι· σὺ δʼ ἐμπέδου [δόσι]ν.

Ἀπόλλων [ἕξει σφʼ ὁ γʼ εὑ]ρὼν ὅστι[ς] ἔ[ς]θʼ· ἑτ[οῖμ]α δ[έ.

Σιληνός [ ]ις ε ζητ [

Ἀπόλλων [ ]εσο[ 3 4 60

Ἀπόλλων α[ ]

Σιληνός τί τοῦτο; πο[ι λέγ]εις;

Ἀπόλλων ἐλεύθερος σὺ [πᾶν τε γένος ἔσται τέκν]ων.

Apollo I will indeed; only confirm your promise. 55

Silenus I will bring you back your cattle; but you confirm the reward.

Apollo Whoever finds them will have it; it is ready at hand.

Silenus seek

Apollo 3

Silenus 4 60

Apollo

Silenus What? What are you saying?

Apollo I say that you, and all the race of your children, will be free.

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Stable identifiers

Ἀπόλλων

[ ]ώσω· μοῦνον ἐμπ[έδου τ]άδε.
55

Σιληνός

τα[ς βοῦς ἀπάξω ς]οι· σὺ δʼ ἐμπέδου [δόσι]ν.

Ἀπόλλων

[ἕξει σφʼ ὁ γʼ εὑ]ρὼν ὅστι[ς] ἔ[ς]θʼ· ἑτ[οῖμ]α δ[έ.

Σιληνός

[ ]ις ε ζητ [

Ἀπόλλων

[ ]εσο[ 3

⁴
60

Ἀπόλλων

α[ ]

Σιληνός

τί τοῦτο; πο[ι λέγ]εις;

Ἀπόλλων

ἐλεύθερος σὺ [πᾶν τε γένος ἔσται τέκν]ων.

Apollo

I will indeed; only confirm your promise.
55

Silenus

I will bring you back your cattle; but you confirm the reward.

Apollo

Whoever finds them will have it; it is ready at hand.

Silenus

seek

Apollo

3

Silenus

⁴
60

Silenus

What? What are you saying?

Apollo

I say that you, and all the race of your children, will be free.