Aristophanes Wasps 403

ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart

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Wasps. Aristophanes. ed. F. W. Hall, ed. William M. Geldart. Oxford. 1906.

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Σφῆκες (Greek) (Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae, Vol. 1. Hall, F. W. and Geldart, William M., editors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.)

Translations (2)
Wasps (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Anonymous; 1938 compilation). Migrated from Perseus legacy XML; source wording and notes retained. See TEI header and migration inventory.) — 403 focus
English (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) Experimental (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) — 403 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Sanjaya, generated; selected passages) (OCR draft) (Source: pnadelofficial/aristophanes-sanjaya, commit c319590c139e5603e71f0699caa0663d823af8ad. Machine-generated source annotations retained; see Sanjaya import audit for coverage and limitations.) focus

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Line 407

κέντρον †ἐντέτατʼ ὀξύ†.
The transmitted text of this line (226) presents a notorious crux: the phrase κέντρον ἐντέτατʼ ὀξύ is metrically impossible (a dactylic hexameter cannot accommodate the sequence of syllables as written in the standard recension) and syntactically awkward. Editors such as Dindorf and Kock have proposed various emendations, including ἐντέτακʼ (aorist passive of τίθημι) or the insertion of a particle, while others suggest the line is corrupt or that the verb is a hapax legomenon used in a specific technical sense of 'stinging' or 'pricking' with a goad. The dagger marks (†) in the text you provided indicate that the reading is suspected to be corrupt, requiring a decision on whether to accept a conjecture or explain the corruption. This is a classic example of textual instability in Aristophanic comedy where the meter and the sense are in conflict.