Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 609-886

ed. Arthur Sidgwick

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Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. ed. Arthur Sidgwick. Oxford. 1902.

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Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (Greek) (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.)

Editions (6)
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 609-886 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 609 focus
ἔστιν πόλις Κάνωβος ἐσχάτη χθονὸς,
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 609 focus
ἔστιν πόλις Κάνωβος ἐσχάτη χθονός,
Νείλου πρὸς αὐτῷ στόματι καὶ προςχώματι·
ἐνταῦθα δή σε Ζεὺς τίθησιν ἔμφρονα,
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ἐπαφῶν ἀταρβεῖ χειρὶ καὶ θιγὼν μόνον.
ἐπώνυμον δὲ τῶν Διὸς γεννημάτων
τέξεις κελαινὸν Ἔπαφον, ὃς καρπώσεται
ὅσην πλατύρρους Νεῖλος ἀρδεύει χθόνα·
πέμπτη δ᾽ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ γέννα πεντηκοντάπαις
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πάλιν πρὸς Ἄργος οὐχ ἑκοῦσ᾽ ἐλεύσεται
θηλύσπορος, φεύγουσα συγγενῆ γάμον
ἀνεψιῶν· οἱ δ᾽ ἐπτοημένοι φρένας,
κίρκοι πελειῶν οὐ μακρὰν λελειμμένοι,
ἥξουσι θηρεύσοντες οὐ θηρασίμους
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γάμους, φθόνον δὲ σωμάτων ἕξει θεός·
Πελασγία δὲ δέξεται
θηλυκτόνῳ
Ἄρει δαμέντων νυκτιφρουρήτῳ θράσει·
γυνὴ γὰρ ἄνδρ᾽ ἕκαστον αἰῶνος στερεῖ,
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δίθηκτον ἐν σφαγαῖσι βάψασα ξίφος·
τοιάδ᾽ ἐπ' ἐχθροὺς τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἔλθοι Κύπρις·
μίαν δὲ παίδων ἵμερος θέλξει τὸ μὴ
κτεῖναι σύνευνον, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπαμβλυνθήσεται
γνώμην· δυοῖν δὲ θάτερον βουλήσεται,
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κλύειν ἄναλκις μᾶλλον ἢ μιαιφόνος.
αὕτη κατ' Ἄργος βασιλικὸν τέξει γένος.
μακροῦ λόγου δὲ ταῦτ᾽ ἐπεξελθεῖν τορῶς.
σπορᾶς γε μὴν ἐκ τῆσδε φύσεται θρασύς,
τόξοισι κλεινός, ὃς πόνων ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ ἐμὲ
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λύσει. τοιόνδε χρησμὸν ἡ παλαιγενὴς
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 609 focus
Ἔστιν πόλις Κάνωβος ἐσχάτη χθονός,
Νείλου πρὸς αὐτῷ στόματι καὶ προσχώματι·
ἐνταῦθα δή σε Ζεὺς τίθησιν ἔμφρονα
ἐπαφῶν ἀταρβεῖ χειρὶ καὶ θιγὼν μόνον·
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ἐπώνυμον δὲ τῶν Διὸς γεννημάτων
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 609 focus
λέξω τορῶς σοι πᾶν ὅπερ χρήζεις μαθεῖν,
οὐκ ἐμπλέκων αἰνίγματ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἁπλῷ λόγῳ,
ὥσπερ δίκαιον πρὸς φίλους οἴγειν στόμα·
πυρὸς βροτοῖς δοτῆρ᾽ ὁρᾷς Προμηθέα.
οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ὅπως ὑμῖν ἀπιστῆσαί με χρή,
σαφεῖ δὲ μύθῳ πᾶν ὅπερ προσχρήζετε
πεύσεσθε· καίτοι καὶ λέγουσ᾽ ὀδύρομαι
θεόσσυτον χειμῶνα καὶ διαφθορὰν
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μορφῆς, ὅθεν μοι σχετλία προσέπτατο.
ἔα ἔα, ἄπεχε, φεῦ·
οὔποτ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ οὔχουν ξένους
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μολεῖσθαι λόγους
πρώ γε στενάζεις καὶ φόβου πλέα τις εἶ·
ἐπίσχες ἔστ᾽ ἂν καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ προσμάθης.
ιώ μοί μοι, ἢ ἔ.
δίδωμ᾽· ἑλοῦ γάρ, ἢ πόνων τὰ λοιπά σοι
φράσω σαφηνῶς, ἢ τὸν ἐκλύσοντ᾽ ἐμέ.
εἰ μέν τι τῇδε λοιπὸν ἢ παρειμένον
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ἔχεις γεγωνεῖν τῆς πολυφθόρου πλάνης,
λέγ᾽· εἰ δὲ πάντ᾽ εἴρηκας, ἡμῖν αὖ χάριν
δὸς ἥντιν᾽ αἰτούμεσθα, μέμνησαι δέ που.
ἔστιν πόλις Κάνωβος ἐσχάτη χθονός,
Νείλου πρὸς αὐτῷ στόματι καὶ προσχώματι·
ἐνταῦθα δή σε Ζεὺς τίθησιν ἔμφρονα
ἐπαφῶν ἀταρβεῖ χειρὶ καὶ θιγὼν μόνον.
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ἐπώνυμον δὲ τῶν Διὸς γεννημάτων
τέξεις κελαινὸν Ἔπαφον, ὃς καρπώσεται
ὅσην πλατύρρους Νεῖλος ἀρδεύει χθόνα.
πέμπτη δ᾽ ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ γέννα πεντηκοντάπαις
ἐλελελελελεῦ,
ὑπό μ᾽ αὖ σφάκελος καὶ φρενοπληγεῖς
μανίαι θάλπουσ', οἴστρου δ᾽ ἄρδις
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χρίει μ' ἄπυρος·
κραδία δὲ φόβῳ φρένα λακτίζει.
τροχοδινεῖται δ᾽ ὄμμαθ᾽ ἑλίγδην,
ἔξω δὲ δρόμου φέρομαι λύσσης
πνεύματι μάργῳ, γλώσσης ἀκρατής·
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θολεροὶ δὲ λόγοι παίουσ᾽ εἰκῇ
στυγνῆς πρὸς κύμασιν ἄτης.
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 609 focus
ἔστιν πόλις Κάνωβος ἐσχάτη χθονός,
Νείλου πρὸς αὐτῶι στόματι καὶ προσχώματι·
ἐνταῦθα δή σε Ζεὺς τίθησιν ἔμφρονα
ἐπαφῶν ἀταρβεῖ χειρὶ καὶ θιγὼν μόνον.
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ἐπώνυμον δὲ τῶν Διὸς γεννημάτων
τέξεις κελαινὸν Ἔπαφον, ὃς καρπώσεται
ὅσην πλατύρρους Νεῖλος ἀρδεύει χθόνα·
πέμπτη δ᾽ ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ γέννα πεντηκοντάπαις
πάλιν πρὸς Ἄργος οὐχ ἑκοῦσ᾽ ἐλεύσεται
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θηλύσπορος, φεύγουσα συγγενῆ γάμον
ἀνεψιῶν· οἳ δ᾽ ἐπτοημένοι φρένας
κίρκοι πελειῶν οὐ μακρὰν λελειμμένοι
ἥξουσι θηρεύοντες οὐ θηρασίμους
γάμους, φθόνον δὲ σωμάτων ἕξει θεός·
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Πελασγία δὲ δέξεται θηλυκτόνωι
Translations (8)
Prometheus Bound Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 609-885 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 609 focus
I will tell thee clearly everything which thou desirest to learn, not interweaving riddles, but in plain language, as it is right to open the mouth to friends. Thou scest him that bestowed fire on mortals, Prometheus.
I know not how I should disobey you; and in a plain tale ye shall learn every thing that ye desire: and yet I am pained even to speak of the tempest that hath been sent upon me from heaven, and the utter marring of my person, whence it suddenly came upon me, a wretched creature ! For nightly visions thronging to my maiden chamber, would entice me with smooth words:
O damsel, greatly fortunate, why dost thou live long time in maidenhood, when it is in thy power to achieve a match the very noblest ? for Jupiter is fired by thy charms with the shaft of passion, and longs with thee to share in love. But do not, my child, spurn away from thee the couch of Jupiter; but go forth to Lerna's fertile mead, to the folds and ox-stalls of thy father, that the eye of Jove may have respite from its longing.
By dreams such as these was I unhappy beset every night, until at length I made bold to tell my sire of the dreams that haunted me by night. And he despatched both to Pytho and to Dodona
many a messenger to consult the oracles, that he might learn what it behoved him to do or say, so as to perform what was well-pleasing to the divinities. And they came bringing a report back of oracles ambiguously worded, indistinct, and obscurely delivered. But at last a clear response came to Inachus, plainly charging and directing him to thrust me forth both from my home and my country, to stray an outcast to earth's remotest limits; and that, if he would not, a fiery-visaged thunderbolt would come from Jupiter, and utterly blot out his whole race. Overcome by oracles of Loxias such as these, unwilling did he expel and exclude me unwilling from his dwelling : but the bit of Jupiter
perforce constrained him to do this And straightway my person and my mind were distorted, and horned, as ye see, stung by the keenly-biting fly, I rushed with maniac boundings to the sweet stream of Cerchneia, and the fountain
of Lerna:—and the earth-born neatherd Argus of untempered fierceness, kept dogging me, peering after my footsteps with thick-set eyes. Him, however, an unlooked-for sudden fate bereaved of life; but I hornet-striken am driven by the scourge divine from land to land. Thou hearest what has taken place, and if thou art able to say what pangs there remain for me, declare them; and do not, compassionating me, warm me with false tales, for I pronounce fabricated statements to be a most foul malady.
Ah! ah! forbear! Alas! Never never did I expect that a tale [so] strange would come to my ears, or that sufferings thus horrible to witness and horrible to endure, outrages, terrors with their two-edged goad, would chill my spirit. Alas! alas! O Fate! Fate! I shudder as I behold the condition of Io.
Prematurely, however, art thou sighing, and art full of terror. Hold, until thou shalt also have heard the residue.
Woe is me! ah! ah!
I allow it thee ; for choose whether I shall clearly tell to thee the residue of thy troubles, or who it is that is to be my deliverer.
If indeed thou hast aught to tell of her baleful wanderings, that still remains or hath been omitted, say on; but if thou hast told the whole, give to us in our turn the favour which we ask, and you, perchance, remember.
There is on the land's utmost verge a city Canopus, hard by the Nile's very mouth and alluvial dyke; on this spot Jupiter at length makes thee sane by merely soothing and touching thee with his unalarming hand. And named after the progeniture of Jupiter
thou shalt give birth to swarthy Epaphus, who shall reap the harvest of all the land which the wide-streaming Nile waters. But fifth in descent from him a generation of fifty virgins shall again come to Argos, not of their own accord, fleeing from incestuous wedlock with their cousins; and these with fluttering hearts, like falcons left not far behind by doves, shall come pursuing marriage such as should not be pursued, but heaven shall be jealous over their persons
; and Pelasgia shall receive them after being crushed by a deed of night-fenced daring, wrought by woman's hand; for each bride shall bereave her respective husband of life, having dyed in their throats
a sword of twin sharp edge. Would that in guise like this Venus might visit my foes! But tenderness shall soften one
of the maidens, so that she shall not slay the partner of her couch. but shall be blunt in her resolve; and of the two alternatives she shall choose the former, to be called a coward rather than a murderess. She in Argos shall give birth to a race of kings. There needs a long discourse to detail these things distinctly ;but from this seed be sure shall spring a dauntless warrior renowned in archery, who shall set me free from these toils. Such predictions did my aged mother the Titaness Themis rehearse to me; but how and when-to tell this requires a long detail, and thou in knowing it all wouldst be in nought a gainer.
Eleleu! Eleleu! Once more the spasm
and maddenin- phrenzies inflame me—and the sting of the hornet, wrought by no fire,
envenoms me; and with panic my heart throbs violently against my breast. My eyes too are rolling in a mazy whirl, and I am carried out of my course by the raging blast of madness, having no controul of tongue, but my troubled words dash idly against the surges of loathsome calamity.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 609 focus
maux 1 .
pourquoi si longtemps rester vierge, quand tu pourrais avoir le plus grand des époux ? Zeus a
été par toi brûlé du trait du désir, il veut avec toi jouir des dons de Cypris : garde-toi, enfant, de repousser l'hymen de Zeus ; mais pars, dirige-toi vers Lerne et sa prairie herbeuse, vers les parcs à moutons et à bœufs de ton père, afin que l'œil de Zeus soit délivré de son désir ! » Voilà
les rêves qui toutes les nuits me pressaient, malheureuse ! jusqu'au jour où j'osai révéler à mon père quels songes hantaient mon sommeil. Et lui alors, à Pytho, à Dodone, dépêchait de fréquents messagers chargés d'interroger le
Ciel et de savoir ce qu'il devait ou dire ou faire pour être agréable aux dieux. Mais ils revenaient ne rapportant qu'oracles ambigus, aux formules obscures, malaisées à débrouiller. Enfin une réponse nette arrive à Inachos : elle
parlait clair et lui enjoignait de me jeter hors de la maison, hors du pays, bête vouée aux dieux 3 , libre d'errer jusqu'aux derniers confins du monde. S'il s'y refusait, la foudre enflammée, échappant à la main de Zeus, anéantirait sa race. Docile à de tels oracles, émanés de Loxias, mon
père me bannit et me ferme à jamais sa demeure malgré lui-même autant que malgré moi : mais le frein de Zeus le forçait d'agir contre sa volonté. Et aussitôt ma forme et ma raison s'altèrent à la fois ; des cornes me viennent,
Des-
tinée, Destinée, je frémis à contempler le sort d'Io !
de l'instruire : il est doux au malade de savoir nettement d'avance ce qui lui reste à souffrir.
Hélas ! pitié ! pitié !
les sous mes yeux et offre-moi le choix.
achevé, accorde-nous à notre tour la grâce que nous te demandons. Tu t'en souviens sans doute ?
Il est une ville, Canope, à l'extrémité du pays, à la bouche même et sur un atterrissement du Nil 13 . C'est là que Zeus te rendra la raison en t'imposant sa main calmante, d'un
simple contact. Et, pour rappeler comment Zeus l'a mis au monde 14 , celui que tu enfanteras sera le noir
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Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 609 focus
All, thou can'ſt wiſh to learn, I'll tell thee clearly,
Wrapt in no veil abſtruse; but in clear terms x
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As friend to friend. Thine eyes behold Prometheus,
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Whoſe warm benevolence gave fire to men.
Ill wou'd excuſe become me, or denial;
Take then the plain unornamented tale
Ye wiſh to hear; tho' ſad the taſk injoin'd,
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And hard: for how relate the heav'nſent tempeſt
That burſt upon my head, my form thus chang'd,
And all the weight of woe that overwhelms me?
Still, when retir'd to reſt, air-bodied forms z
Viſit my ſlumbers nightly, ſoothing me
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With gentle ſpeech, "Bleft maid, why hoard for ever
Thy virgin treaſure, when the higheſt nuptials
Await thy choice; the flames of ſoft deſire
Have touch'd the heart of Jove; he burns with love:
Diſdain not, gentle virgin, ah diſdain not
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The couch of Jove; to Lerna's deep receſſ,
Where graze thy father's herds the meads along,
Go, gentle virgin, crown the god's deſires."
The night returns, the visionary forms
Return again, and haunt my troubled ſoul
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Forbidding reſt, till to my father's ear
I dar'd diſcloſe the viſions of the night.
To Pytho, to Dodona's vocal grove
He ſent his ſeers, anxious to know what beſt
Was pleaſing to the gods. Return'd they bring
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Darkutter'd anſwers of ambiguous ſenſe.
At length one oracle diſtinct and plain
Pronounc'd its mandates, charging Inachus
To drive me from his houſe and from my country,
To rove at large o'er earth's extremeſt bounds:
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Should he refuſe, the vengeful bolt of Jove,
Wing'd with red flames wou'd all his race deſtroy.
Obedient to the Pythian god he drove me
Unwilling from his houſe, himſelf unwilling
Compell'd by Jove, and harſh neceſſity.
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Strait was my ſenſe diſorder'd, my fair form
Chang'd, as you ſee, disfigur'd with these horns;
And tortur'd with the bryze's horrid ſting,
Wild with my pain with frantic ſpeed I hurried
To Cenchrea's vale with ſilver-winding ſtreams a
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Irriguous, and the fount whence Lerna ſpreads
Its wide expanſe of waters; cloſe behind
In wrathful mood walk'd Argus, earthborn herdſman,
With all his eyes obſervant of my ſteps.
Him unawares a ſudden fate depriv'd
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Of life; whilſt I, ſtung with that heav'nſent peſt,
Am driv'n with devious ſpeed from land to land. !
Thou haſt my tale. If ought of woes to come.
Thy præſcient mind divines, relate them freely;
Nor thro' falſe pity with fallacious words
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Sooth my vain hopes, my ſoul abhors as baſe
The fabling tongue of glozing courteſy.
No more, no more, forbear. Ah never, never
Conceiv'd I that a tale ſo ſtrange ſhould reach -
My ears; that miſeries, woes, diſtreſſes, terrors,
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Dreadful to ſight, intolerable to ſenſe,...
Should ſhock me thus: woe, woe, unhappy fate!
How my ſoul ſhudders at the fate of Iö!
Already doſt thou ſigh, already tremble?
Check these emotions till the whole is heard.
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Ah miſerable me!
Shall I declare the reſt of thy misfortunes,
Or doſt thou wiſh to know him that ſhall free me?
If thou haſt ought remaining, ought omitted,
To tell her of her woeful wand'rings, ſpeak it:
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If all has been declar'd, to us vouchſafe
The grace we aſk; what, thou rememb'reſt well.
On the land's extreme verge a city ſtands,
Canobus, proudly' elevate, nigh where the Nile
Rolls to the ſea his rich ſtream: there ſhall Jove
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Heal thy diſtraction, and with gentle hand
Sooth thee to peace.
Of his high race a ſon,
The duſky Epaphus, ſhall riſe, and rule
The wide extended land o'er which the Nile
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Pours his broad waves.
In the fifth line from him
Fifty fair ſiſters ſhall return to Argos
Unwillingly, to fly the kindred beds
Of fifty brothers; these with eager ſpeed,
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Swift as the faulcon's ſlight when he purſues
The dove at hand, ſhall follow, nor obtain
The nuptials, which th' indignant gods deny.
These ſhall Pelaſgia ſee by female hands
Welt'ring in gore, the night's convenient gloom
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Fav'ring the daring deed; each female draws
The trenchant ſword, and in her husband's blood
Stains the broad blade. Thus fatal to my foes
Be love!
Yet one ſhall feel its ſofter flame
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Melting her ſoul, and from the general carnage
Preſerve her husband, chuſing to be deem'd
Of baſe degenerate ſpirit, rather than ſtain
Her gentle hands with blood.
From her ſhall Argos
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Receive a long imperial line of kings.
The full diſtinct relation wou'd be tedious.
From her ſhall riſe the hero, ſtrong to wing
The dreaded ſhaft; he from these tort'ring pains
Shall ſet me free: this my agehonour'd mother,
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Titanian Themis, with oracular voice Foretold;
but when, or how, requires a length
Of narrative, which known wou'd nought avail thee.
Ah me! Ah wretched me! That pang again!
Again that firey pang, whoſe mad'ning ſmart
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Corrodes and rankles in my breaſt! With fear
My heart pants thick; wildly my eyeballs roll;
Diſtraction drives my hurried ſteps a length.
Of weary wand'ring; my ungovern'd tongue
Utters tumultuous ravings, that roll high
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The floods of paſſion ſwoln with horrid woes.
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 609 focus
Ben chiaro ciò che brami io ti dirò,
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senza enimmi intrecciar, semplicemente,
come ad amici si convien. Tu scorgi
quei che ai mortali il fuoco diè: Promèteo.
Come opporvi rifiuto io non saprei ;
e con chiara parola a voi dirò
tutto quanto da me saper bramate,
anche s'io piangerò, solo a narrare
la divina procella, e d'onde avvenne
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che la mia prisca forma andò distrutta.
Nelle mie stanze verginali, entravano
visïoni ogni notte, e m'esortavano
con soavi parole: «O beatissima
fanciulla, e perché mai tu resti nubile
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sí lungo tempo, e aver potresti il gaudio
d'eccelse nozze? Ché di te, pel dardo
della brama, arde Giove, e coglier teco
vuole il piacer d'amore. E tu, fanciulla,
non calcitrare al talamo di Giove :
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anzi esci al pingue pascolo di Lerna,
alle greggi del padre ed ai presepî,
ché requie abbia da te l'occhio divino ».
A tali sogni in preda ero ogni notte,
misera me, sin che narrare al padre
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osai questi notturni incubi. Ed egli
molti indovini a Pito ed a Dodona
inviò, per saper che cosa ei debba
o dire o far per compiacere i Numi.
Tornavan quelli, e riferiano oracoli
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confusi, ambigui, oscuramente espressi.
Chiaro un responso giunse infine ad Inaco:
che senz'ambage gl'imponeva l'ordine
che dalla casa via, via dalla patria
mi discacciasse, per gli estremi limiti
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della terra, a vagar come una libera
vittima, se non vuol che ardente il folgore
piombi di Giove, e la sua stirpe stermini.
Da questi indotto oracoli di Febo,
via dalla casa mi scacciò, mi escluse,
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malgrado suo, malgrado mio. Ma il freno
di Giove a ciò lo costringeva a forza.
E la mia forma e la mia mente súbito
si sconvolsero, e quale or mi vedete,
irta di corna il capo, e dall'acuto
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pungiglio spinta d'un assillo, ai rivi
dolci di Cernèa giunsi, alla fontana
di Lerna, in folli balzi io mi lanciai.
E tutto pien di zelo Argo seguiami,
terrigeno bifolco, e vigilava
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coi suoi cent'occhi, dietro ogni mio passo.
Vita gli tolse un improvviso fato:
ed io, punta dall'estro, e dalla sferza
divina, errando vo' di terra in terra.
Ciò che m'avvenne, udisti. Or, se lo sai,
795
il mal che debbo ancor soffrire insegnami,
né per pietà molcirmi di menzogne:
non v'ha morbo peggior che il parlar finto.
Ahimè, taci, ahimè, taci!
Mai non credevo che queste orecchie
800
udir dovessero sí strani casi,
né che terrori, brutture, spasimi
tanto a vederli fieri e a soffrirli,
con l'affilata
punta dovessero l'alma aggelarmi.
805
Ahi, destino, destino!
Se d'lo contemplo
la triste sorte, m'investe un brivido!
È prematuro il tuo terrore e il pianto.
Sin che non abbia udito il resto, frenati.
810
Ahimè, ahimè! ahi, ahi!
Eccoli, eleggi: o di tue pene il termine
900
ti dirò chiaro, o chi me deve sciogliere.
Se rimane alcun punto, o l'obliasti,
che dei penosi errori a costei dica,
parla. Se tutto hai detto, a noi concedi
la grazia che chiediam: tu la rammenti.
950
Di quella terra all'ultimo confine,
alla foce del Nilo, ov'esso addensa
le sabbie, sorge la città di Cànobo.
Quivi col tocco e la carezza sola
della sua man, Giove ti rende il senno.
980
Ed a luce il negro Èpafo darai,
che nome avrà dal giovïale tocco.
E signore sarà di quanta terra
l'ampie fluenti irrigano del Nilo.
La quinta stirpe dopo lui, progenie
985
di ben cinquanta femmine, di nuovo
ad Argo tornerà, non di suo grado,
ma per fuggir le consanguinee nozze
dei lor cugini. Ardenti il sen d'amore,
come sparvieri che colombe incalzino,
990
d'empie nozze a far preda essi verranno.
Ma un Nume a lor contenderà che godano
le dolci membra. E la Pelasgia terra
li accoglierà, spenti da man donnesca,
da femminea notturna audace strage:
995
ché ogni donna il suo sposo ucciderà,
il doppio taglio della spada a lui
immergendo nel sangue. Oh!, tali nozze
tocchino ai miei nemici! - Una fanciulla
amore molcirà, ch'ella risparmi
1000
del suo letto il compagno. E il suo disegno
non compierà; ma sceglierà, fra due,
pria che omicida, esser chiamata imbelle.
Ad Argo essa darà regia una stirpe.
E lungo ora sarebbe esporre il tutto:
1005
pur, da questa semenza nascerà
ben audace un rampollo, illustre arciero,
che me dai miei tormenti affrancherà.
Tale oracolo a me l'antica madre
die', la titania Temi. Il dove, il come
1010
questo avverrà, lungo sarebbe a dirlo,
e niun vantaggio a te sarebbe apprenderlo.
Ahimè, ahimè !
Tutta ancora m'invade uno spasimo,
le frenetiche smanie mi bruciano,
1015
mi trafora de l'estro la cuspide
che non ebbe dal fuoco la tempera.
Per terrore nel petto il cuor calcitra,
le pupille stravolte mi ruotano,
fuor mi spinge dal tramite il soffio
1020
della rabbia demente, né domino
piú la mente. Ed a caso s'abbattono
procellose parole sui flutti
di orribili lutti.
Io, colta da un nuovo accesso di delirio, fugge a gran balzi.
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 609 focus
Dic quod petis, omnia intelliges ex me.
Non noui, quo pacto vobis possum dissidere.
Apertis verbis, quæ vultis,
Audietis. certè dicens lamentor,
640
Ah ah, abstine heu,
Nunquam optarem inaudita verba venire
In meum auditum: neq; huc tristia spectatu,
Et non toleranda nocumenta, mala, terricula bicipiti
Stimulo pungere animam meam,
690
Heu heu, fors fors,
Horrui videns actionem Iouis.
Tu ante luges, & plena timoris es:
Contine, donec reliqua intellexeris.
Tu rursus clamasti, & pungeris. quid videlicet
Facies, quando reliqua audies mala?
Do, elige. aut enim reliquos labores tibi
780
Dicam manifestè, aut quis me soluturus est.
Si aliquid superest, quod
Possis narrare, de huius vago errore,
820
Dic: si verò omnia dixisti, nobis rursus gratiam,
Quam petimus, da, & recordare huius,
Est autem urbs Canopus ultima terræ,
Nili apud ostia & aggerem:
Ibi te Iupiter reddit mentis compotem,
Contrectans intrepidâ manu, & tangens tantum,
Eiudem nominis Iouis filiorum
850
Paries nigrum Epaphum, qui fruetur
Terra, quam latè fluens Nilus irrigat,
Quintâ ab ipso generatione quinquaginta natorum
Rursus Argos non inuita veniet,
Fœminea, fugiens nuptias fraternâs
855
Nepotum:
hi verò mente capti
Circi columbarum non diu relicti,
Venient venantes non venatile
Matrimonium. Invidiam corporum habebit deus.
860
Pelasgia suscipiet eos, fœmineo
Interfectos Marti, nocturnâ audaciâ
Vxor maritum quemq; priuabit vitâ,
Ancipitem in iugulum immittens ensem.
Talis libido invadet inimicos meos,
865
Vnam puellarum mansuetudo demulcebit, ne
Occidat coniugem, sed ut misereatur.
Heu heu, ἐλελελοῦ,
Me rursus sideratio, & quæ mentem percellit
880
Insania, calefaciunt, stimuli cuspis
Me pungit frigidâ,
Cor timore mentem calcitrat:
Vertuntur oculi in gyrum,
Extra cursum feror rabie,
885
Spiritu stolido, linguæ imbecillis,
Turbulenti sermones, ferimur temerè
Ad fluctus tristis nocumenti,
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 609 focus
Lo, clearly will I show forth all thy quest—
Not in dark speech, but with such simple phrase
655
As doth befit the utterance of a friend.
I am Prometheus, who gave fire to men.
I know not how I should mistrust your prayer;
Therefore the whole that ye desire of me
Ye now shall learn in one straightforward tale.
Yet, as it leaves my lips, I blush with shame
690
To tell that tempest of the spite of Heaven,
And all the wreck and ruin of my form,
And whence they swooped upon me, woe is me!
Long, long in visions of the night there came
Voices and forms into my maiden bower,
695
Alluring me with smoothly glozing words—
O maiden highly favoured of high Heaven,
Why cherish thy virginity so long?
Thine is it to win wedlock's noblest crown!
Know that Zeus' heart thro' thee is all aflame,
700
Pierced with desire as with a dart, and longs
To join in utmost rite of love with thee.
Therefore, O maiden, shun not with disdain
Th' embrace of Zeus, but hie thee forth straightway
To the lush growth of Lerna's meadow-land,
705
Where are the flocks and steadings of thy home,
And let Zeus' eye be eased of its desire.
Night after night, haunted by dreams like these,
Heartsick, I ventured at the last to tell
Unto my sire these visions of the dark.
710
Then sent he many a wight, on sacred quest,
To Delphi and to far Dodona's shrine,
Being full fain to learn what deed or word
Would win him favour from the powers of heaven.
But they came back repeating oracles
715
Mystic, ambiguous, inscrutable,
Till, at the last, an utterance direct,
Obscure no more, was brought to Inachus—
A peremptory charge to fling me forth
Beyond my home and fatherland, a thing
720
Sent loose in banishment o'er all the world;
And—should he falter—Zeus should launch on him
A fire-eyed bolt, to shatter and consume
Himself and all his race to nothingness.
Bowing before such utterance from the shrine
725
Of Loxias, he drave me from our halls,
Barring the gates against me: loth he was
To do, as I to suffer, this despite:
But the strong curb of Zeus had overborne
His will to me-ward. As I parted thence,
730
In form and mind I grew dishumanized,
And horned as now ye see me, poison-stung
By the envenomed bitings of the brize,
I leapt and flung in frenzy, rushed away
To the bright waters of Cerchneia's stream
735
And Lerna's beach: but ever at my side,
A herdsman by his heifer, Argus moved,
Earth-born, malevolent of mood, and peered,
With myriad eyes, where'er my feet would roam.
But on him in a moment, unforeseen,
740
Came Fate, and sundered him from life; but I,
Still maddened by the gadfly's sting, the scourge
Of God's infliction, roam the weary world.
How I have fared, thou hearest: be there aught
Of what remains to bear, that thou canst tell,
745
Speak on! but let not thy compassion warm
Thy words to cheering falsehood. Worst of woes
Are words that break their promise to our hope!
Woe! woe! avaunt—thou and thy tale of bane!
O never, never dared I dream
750
Such horror of strange sounds should pierce mine ear,
Such loathly sights, such tortures hard to bear,
Outrage, pollution, agony supreme,
Wasting my heart with double edge of pain!
Ah Fate, ah Fate! I gaze on Io's dole,
755
And shudder to my soul!
Thou wailest all too soon, fulfilled of fear—
Tarry awhile, till thou have learned the whole.
Alas for me, alas!
815
I grant it: shall I in all clearness show
Thy future woes, or my deliverance?
855
If there be aught beyond, or aught pass'd o'er,
910
Which thou canst utter, of her woe-worn maze,
Speak on! if all is said, then grant to us
That which we asked, as thou rememberest.
There lieth, at the verge of land and sea,
Where Nilus issues thro' the silted sand,
A town, Canopus called: and there at length
945
Shall Zeus renew the reason in thy brain
With the mere touch and contact of his hand
Fraught now with fear no more: and thou shalt bear
A child, dark Epaphus—his very name
Memorial of Zeus' touch that gave him life.
950
And his shall be the foison and the fruit
Of all the land enriched by spreading Nile.
Thence the fifth generation of his seed
Back unto Argos, yet unwillingly,
Shall flee for refuge—fifty maidens they,
955
Loathing a wedlock with their next in blood,
More kin than kind, from their sire's brother sprung.
And on their track, astir with wild desire,
Like falcons fierce closing on doves that flee,
Shall speed the suitors, craving to achieve
960
A prey forbidden, a reluctant bride.
Yet power divine shall foil them, and forbid
Possession of the maids, whom Argive land
Shall hold protected, when unsleeping hate,
Horror, and watchful ambush of the night,
965
Have laid the suitors dead, by female hands.
For every maid shall smite a man to death,
Dyeing a dagger's edges in his throat—
Such bed of love befal mine enemies!
Yet in one bride shall yearning conquer hate,
970
Bidding her spare the bridegroom at her side,
Blunting the keen edge of her set resolve.
Thus of two scorns the former shall she choose,
The name of coward, not of murderess.
In Argos shall she bear, in after time,
975
A royal offspring. Long it were to tell
In clear succession all that thence shall be.
Take this for sooth—in lineage from her
A hero shall arise, an archer great,
And he shall be my saviour from these woes.
980
Such knowledge of the future Themis gave,
The ancient Titaness, to me her son.
But how, and by what skill, 'twere long to say,
And no whit will the knowledge profit thee.
O woe, O rending and convulsive pain,
985
Frenzy and agony, again, again
Searing my heart and brain!
O dagger of the sting, unforged with fire
Yet burning, burning ever! O my heart,
Pulsing with horror, beating at my breast!
990
O rolling maddened eyes! away, apart,
Raving with anguish dire,
I spring, by frenzy-fiends possest.
O wild and whirling words, that sweep in gloom
Down to dark waves of doom!
995
[ Exit Io.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 609 focus
Ich will dir klar enthüllen, was du hören willst,
Nicht Räthselsprüche flechtend, nein, in schlichtem Wort,
Sowie vor Freunden unverhüllt zu reden ziemt.
610
Ich bin Prometheus, dem der Mensch das Feuer dankt.
Wohl darf ich eurem Wunsche nicht entgegen sein.
Ihr sollt in klarem Worte, was ihr hören wollt,
640
Vernehmen. Zwar mich schmerzt es, auch zu sagen nur,
Woher der gottverhängte Sturm, der grause Tausch
Der jungen Schönheit über mich Unsel'ge kam.
Traumbilder schwebten nächtlich stets herein zu mir
In meine Frauenkammer, und ermahnten mich
645
Mit Schmeichellauten: „Mädchen, hochbeseligtes,
Was willst du Jungfrau bleiben, da der Ehe Bund
Dir winkt, der höchste? Zeus erglüht in Liebe dir
Vom Pfeil der Sehnsucht, und verlangt Kythere's Glück
Mit dir zu kosten. Du verschmähe nicht, o Kind,
650
Des Zeus Umarmung, geh zu Lerna's tiefer Au,
Nach deines Vaters Heerden und Gehöft hinaus,
Damit Kronions Auge sein Verlangen stillt."
Durch solche Träume ward ich Unglückselige
In jeder Nacht geängstet, bis ich Muth gewann,
655
Die Nachtgesichte meinem Vater kundzuthun.
Der sandte viele Boten nach Dodona's Hain,
Nach Pytho's Herd, zu forschen, wie der Götter Huld
Er sich gewinne durch die That, durch welches Wort.
Sie kehrten heim und brachten sinnverwirrende
660
Aussprüch', in unlösbare Räthsel eingehüllt.
Doch endlich ward dem Inachos ein heller Spruch,
Der unverhüllt in klaren Worten ihm gebot,
Mich auszustoßen aus der Väter Haus und Land,
Daß ich verlassen irrt' am fernsten Saum der Welt;
665
Und woll' er nicht, so zucke flammenäugiger
Blikstrahl von Zeus, ganz auszutilgen sein Geschlecht.
Gehorsam diesem Seherspruch des Loxias,
Vertrieb der Vater sträubend mich die sträubende,
Verbannte mich vom Hause; denn ihn zwang des Zeus
670
Allmächt'ger Zügel mit Gewalt zu solcher That.
Sofort verwandelt wurde mir Gestalt und Sinn:
Die Stirn gehörnt, ihr seht es, durch verwirrenden
Wahnsinn gestachelt, rannt' ich fort in wüthendem,
Sinnlosem Sprunge zu Kerchneia's süßem Born,
675
Zur Quelle Lerna's. Und ein Hirt, der Erde Sohn,
Voll ungestümen Zornes, Argos, folgte mir
Aus hundert Augen lauernd nach auf jeder Spur.
Doch ihm entriß ein jähes Schicksal unverhofft
Das Leben; mich treibt ohne Rast im Bremsensturm
680
Die Göttergeißel stachelnd fort von Land zu Land.
Mein Mißgeschick vernahmst du: wenn du sagen kannst,
Was noch bevorsteht, melde mir's; doch schmeichle nicht
Mitleidig mir mit Lügen; denn das schändlichste
Der Uebel nenn' ich lügenhafter Worte Trug.
685
O wehe, weh! Halt' ein, weh!
Nimmer, nimmermehr wähnt' ich, daß
So schmerzvolles Leid mir je dring' in's Ohr,
Nie, daß so grausenhaft und unerträglich
Qualen und Marter und Angst, ein zweischneidig Schwert,
690
Eiskalt mir durchbohre das Herz!
O Graun, o Graun! Schicksal, Schicksal!
Wie füllt Jo's Leiden mich mit Schauder!
Du seufzest allzufrühe, bist von Schreck erfüllt:
Halt' ein, bevor du hörtest auch das Uebrige.
695
O weh mir, weh, weh!
Wohlan, so wähle: soll ich dir dein künftig Leid
Genau berichten, oder wer mich lösen wird?
Wofern du Weit'res oder Uebergangnes ihr
Von ihrer drangsalvollen Fahrt zu melden hast,
Sprich: doch vernahm fie Alles, dann gewähr' auch uns,
Um was wir baten; wohl gedenkst du dessen noch.
Die Stadt Kanobos hebt sich an des Landes Saum,
Dicht, wo der Neilos mündet, an der Ufer Damm.
Dort gibt dir Zeus des Geistes alte Kraft zurück,
845
Mit leiser Hand dich streichelnd und berührend nur.
Und du gebierst den dunkelbraunen Epaphos,
Von Zeus' Berührung so genannt. Ihm zinsen einst
Die Gauen, die des Neilos breiter Strom benekt.
Ein Stamm von diesem, der mit fünfzig Sprossen blüht,
850
Der fünfte, kehrt nach Argos einst ungern zurück,
Ein Haufe Jungfrau'n, der dem Chebund entflieht
Der Stammesvettern. Diese, blind in Liebeswahn,
Den Falken gleich dicht hinter Tauben hergestürmt,
Erjagen sich die Frauen, - unheilvolle Jagd!
855
Denn ihnen gönnen Götter nicht der Liebe Glück.
Pelasgererde birgt sie, wann der Frauen Arm
Und nächtlichlauernd kühner Zorn sie niederschlug:
Die Hand der Braut gibt jedem Bräutigam den Tod,
Und taucht ihr doppelschneidig Schwert in blut'gen Mord.
860
So möge sich Kythere meinen Feinden nah'n!
Nur Einer Jungfrau Busen rührt der Liebe Pfeil;
Ihr Herz in süßem Sehnen schreckt vom Gattenmord
Zurück, und wählt von Zweien dieses Eine sich:
Schwach will sie lieber heißen, als die Mörderin.
865
Aus ihrem Schooß wird Argos' Herrscherstamm erblüh'n.
Viel Worte braucht's, um dieses deutlich darzuthun:
Genug! Aus diesem Samen sproßt ein kühner Held,
Der bogenstolze, welcher mich von dieser Qual
Erlösen wird. So hat es meine Mutter mir
870
Enthüllt, die graue Themis vom Titanenstamm.
Doch wie und wo, zu sagen, dies braucht lange Zeit;
Und wenn es dir kundwürde, frommte dir's zu nichts.
O Leid, o Leid !

Notes on the current edition

Prometheus Bound

1. ὅπερ ex Etym. M. 762, 30 Porson: ὅτι M
2. ἂν recc.: οὖν M
3. σαφηνίσας Linwood: σαφηνήσαι mutatum in σαφηνίσαι M
4. τοῦδέ σοι Turnebus: τοῦδε τοῦ codd.
5. μὴ M, οὐ supra scr. m
6. ὧν Hermann: ὡς codd.
7. ὅπου Ellendt: ὅποι M
8. γ᾽ add. Paley
9. εὐδαίμων ( ο suprascr. m) M
10. νυκτίφοιτα δείματα (ex Lycophr. 225) Nauck: νυκτίφοιτ᾽ ὀνείρατα recc.: νυκτίφαντ᾽ ὀνείρατα M
11. πυρωπὸν recc.: πυρωτὸν M
12. ἐξαϊστώσοι Blomfield: ἐξαϊστώσει M
13. τε κρήνην Canter: ἄκρην τε M
14. ἀφνίδιος Elmsley: αἰφνίδιος codd.: ἄπτερος ex Hesych. W. Headlam
15. ψεύδέσσιν M
16. οὔποθ᾽ ὧδ᾽ Wecklein: οὔποτ᾽ codd.
17. ηὔχουν schol., recc.: ηὐχόμην M
18. καὶ recc.: omittit M
19. δείματα κέντρῳ ψύχειν ψυχὰν ἀμφάκει Weil: δείματ᾽ ἀμφήκει κέντρῳ ψύχειν ψυχὰν ἐμάν M
20. εἰσιδοῦσα recc.: ἐσιδοῦσα M
21. χρείαν recc.: χρεῖαν τ᾽ M
22. βάλ᾽ recc.: μάθ᾽ M
23. ναίουσ᾽ recc.: νέουσ᾽ M
24. ἐξηρτυμένοι rec.: ἐξηρτημένοι M
25. πόδας Turnebus: γύποδας codd.
26. πρόσπλατοι Elmsley: πρόσπλαστοι codd.
27. κατοικοῦσιν (correctum in κατοικιοῦσιν m 1) M
28. μηδέπω ᾽ν Turnebus: μηδ᾽ ἐπῶν codd.
29. πέδοι Dindorf: πέδω M
30. ἦ δυσπετῶς recc.: ἦδυπετῶς correctum in ἡδυπετῶς M
31. hos tres vv. in M recitat Io
32. ἥδοι᾽ ἄν Dawes: ἥδοιο ἄν rec.: ἥδοιμ᾽ ἄν M
33. σοι μαθεῖν Turnebus: μαθεῖν σοι codd. (M in lit.)
34. ἀσχαλεῖ L. Dindorf: ἀσχαλᾷ codd.
35. σ᾽ recc.: om. M
36. αὐτὸν ἐκγόνων recc.: αὐτῶν ἐγγόνων M
37. γ᾽ Hermann: τ᾽ M
38. λόγου Elmsley: λόγους codd.
39. μὴ γεγωνεῖν ( οὐ suprascr. m) M
40. ἠπείροιν Herwerden: ἠπείρων codd. post 791 lacunam indicat Heath
41. πόντου recc.: πόντον M
42. μουνῶπα M: αν supra α scr. m 1
43. πόρου recc.: πόρον M
44. βιβλίνων M schol.: βυβλίνων recc.
45. σε δώσει correctum in σ᾽ ὁδώσει M
46. ἐπανδίπλαζε Dindorf: ἐπαναδίπλαζε codd.
47. om. M, in margine scr. m
48. ἥνπερ Hermann: ἥντιν᾽ codd.
49. γάπεδα Porson: δάπεδα codd.
50. θᾶκός τ᾽ Brunck: θῶκος M, τ᾽ add. m
51. προσσαίνει σέ τι recc.: προσαίν, εισ́. τί M, σίτι m 1
52. κεκλήσεται recc.: κληθήσεται M
53. πεντηκοντάπαις recc.: πεντηκοντόπαις M
54. θηρεύοντες recc.: θηρεύσοντες M
55. ἐπ᾽ recc.: ἐς M
56. ἶνις add. ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ seclusit Wecklein
57. ἐλελεῦ (bis) Pauw: ἐλελελελελεῦ M
58. κραδία recc.: καρδία M
59. παίουσ᾽ recc.: πταίουσ᾽ M

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Prometheus Bound.) focus

608-609. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-687

NA: Omissa
εἴπερ οἶσθα θρόει
in G. quorum
εἴπερ οἶσθα
post
μῆνιν
adscripta, inducto deinde ab alia manu atramento additoque
θρόει
.

609. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-688

φράζε:
φράζετε
Μ.
φράζε τε
Lips. Aug. Bess. Rob.
φράζε δὲ
Ald.
φράζε τε τὰ
G.
φράζε τε τῷ
Cant. 1. Ven. 2. Vind. 3. aliique.
φράζε τὰ
Vit. Par. B. (in quo adscriptum
φράζε δυσπλάνῳ
) et sic inde a Turnebo editores.

609. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-689

δυςπλάνῳ:
δυσπλάνων
Μ. non
δυστάνῳ
, ut Butlerus ait.

610. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-690

ὅπερ:
ὅτι
M. Vit. Ven. 3. edd. vett.
ὃ
G. Lips. Aug. Par. E. Vind. 2. 4. Restituit
ὅπερ
Porsonus ex Εtym. Μ. p. 762, 30. et Gudiano p. 532, 32. ubi hic et duo sequentes versus ut Sophoclis afferuntur. In Etym. Gud. scriptum est
τορόν σοι
.

612. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-691

φίλους:
φίλον
ante correctionem primae manus, Vit.

614. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-692

NA: Usus est hoc versu scriptor Christi patientis v. 699.

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θνητοῖσιν:
θνητοῖσι
, supra adscripto
ν
, Μ.
θνητοῖσι
G. Vit. Lips. Vind. 3. edd. vett.
βροτοῖσι
Colb. 2. Par. E.

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τλῆμον:
τλήμων
Lips. Aug.

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δίκην: Ad
δίκην
in G. ab ea manu, quae scholia scripsit, superscriptum
χάριν
, scholioque praefixum
τοῦ χάριν
. In textu
χάριν
Colb. 2. Vind. 1.
γρ. χάριν
Par. B. Scriptor Christi patientis v. 700.
τοῦ δίκην πάσχεις τάδε
, ubi mendose
δίκης
editum.

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NA: Afferunt hunc versum Tzetzes ad Lycophr. 106. et scholiastes Theocriti ad IV. 51.

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οὔκουν:
οὐκ οὖν
Aug. sed Lips. cum ceteris
οὔκουν
.

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τήνδε:
τάνδε
Lips. Vind. 2. Ald. Rob.

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αἰτεῖ:
αἰτεῖ
a pr. manu M. G. Vulgatum
αὐτῇ
in utroque a correctore factum.
αἰτεῖς
Vind. 3.

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πᾶν γὰρ ἂν πύθοιό μου:
πᾶν γὰρ οὖν πύθοιό μου
Μ.
πᾶν γὰρ πύθοιό μου
Vit. Colb. 1. 2.
πάντα γὰρ πύθοιό μοι
G. Ven. 1. Ox. Ald. Rob.
πᾶν γὰρ ἐκπύθοιό μου
Lips. Aug. Vind. 2. 3. 4. Turn.
γρ. πᾶν γὰρ ἂν πύθοιο. γρ. πάντα γὰρ πύθοιο
Par. Β. Restituit Brunckius
πᾶν γὰρ ἂν πύθοιο μου
. Et videtur sic habere Bess. nisi quod in eo
μοι
est.

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ὤχμασεν:
ᾤχμασεν
M. Vit. Lips. Aug. Cantabr. 1.
ὤχμασε
G. edd. vett.

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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον:
βούλευμα μὲν τὸ δῖον
etiam Μ.
β. μέντοι τὸ δῖον
Vit.
β. μὲν τοῦ διὸς
Lips. Aug.

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τίνεις: Usus est hoc versu scriptor Christi patientis v. 701.
τείνεις
G.

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τίς ἔσται:
τί ἔσται
Lips. Aug.

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σοι:
σοι
M. G. Lips. Aug. aliique et edd. vett.
σε
Vit. et alii nonnulli. Turbari videtur hic στιχομυθία eo quod duobus quos Io dixit versibus uno respondet Prometheus. Vnde quae nascitur suspicio, excidisse hic alterum Promethei versum, eam augere videri potest scholiastes, qui sic scripsit,
Ἐπικούρειόν ἐστι δόγμα, ἀναιροῦν τὴν μαντικήν· εἱμαρμένης γάρ, φησί, πάντα κρατούσης, πρὸ καιροῦ λελύπηκας, ἢ χρηστόν τι εἰπὼν τὴν ἡδονὴν ἐξέλυσας. λέγουσι δὲ καὶ τὸ “ἃ δεῖ γενέσθαι, ταῦτα καὶ γενήσεται.”
Quae adnotatio a quopiam profecta videri potest, qui quum omissum in codicis quem transscribebat contextu hunc versum in margine adscriptum videret, eum ut proverbium explicationis caussa adiectum interpretationi suae inserendum esse putaverit. Est autem haec sententia aptissima, et ex hoc ipso dicto recte concludere potuit Io quod respondet,
μήτοι με κρύψῃς τοῦθ᾽ ὅπερ μέλλω παθεῖν
, in quibus verbis Schützius, non recte rationem conclusam videns, iure haerebat. Monui haec dudum in diss. de versibus spuriis apud Aeschylum p. 10. sive Opusc. II. p. 83. Potest tamen quod libri praebent defendi, modo
τοι
non concludendae rationi, sed asseverando hortandoque inservire credamus. Neque quod ad
στιχομυθίαν
attinet, deest quod responderi possit, quum alio modo servata esse aequabilitas videatur. Nam quemadmodum post v. 614. 615. septem versus sunt inter Prometheum et Ionem divisi, ita idem factum est post v. 623. 624.

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μήτοι:
μήτοι
M. Vit. Lips. Aug. edd. vett. et scholiastes Euripidis ad Hec. 565. ed. Matth. ut codices nonnulli et Thomas M. p. 228, 15.
μή τι κρύψῃς με
G.

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τοῦθ':
τόδ'
pro
τοῦθ'
Lips. Aug.

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τοῦδέ σοι δωρήματος:
τοῦδέ τοι δωρήματος
M. G. Vit. Colb. 2. Par. H. L. N. Ven. 2. 3. Bess. Cantabr. 1. 2. Vindobonenses, Rob.
τοῦδε δωρήματος
Lips. Aug. Ald.
τοῦδέ σοι δωρήματος
Turn. quod verum esse puto.

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μὴ οὐ:
μὴ
, superscripto a sec. manu
οὐ
, M. Ceteri plerique libri
μὴ οὐ
, nisi quod
οὐ
in G. Colb. 2. Cantabr. 2. erasum est.

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γεγωνίσκειν τὸ πᾶν:
γεγωνεῖν με τὸ πᾶν
Lips. Aug.

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σὰς δ᾽ ὀκνῶ:
σὰς δοκῶ
G. Ven. 1. Ald.

629. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-712

θράξαι:
θράξαι
, hoc accentu, libri, et diserte testantur grammatici
ταράσσειν
brevi
ā
esse. V. Etym. M. p. 746, 38. Draco p. 85, 23.

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μᾶσσον ἢ ἐμοὶ γλυκύ: Libri
μᾶσσον ὡς ἐμοὶ γλυκύ
. Turnebus ex codice quopiam notavit, quod Brunckius aliique probarunt. Elmsleius
μασσόνως ἐμοὶ γλυκύ
, elegante et valde probabili coniectura; licet eam ipse ad Heracl. 544. non magni se facere dixerit. At aut sic scripsit, opinor, Aeschylus, aut
μάσσον ὧν ἐμοὶ γλυκύ
, i. e.
ἢ ἃ σε προκήδεσθαι ἐμοὶ γλυκύ ἐστι
. Sed quum haud paullo verisimilius sit
μασσόνως
a librariis esse depravatum, non dubitavi recipere Elmsleii emendationem. Neque enim inveni nisi et paucissima et ea valde suspecta exempla, quae tueri
ὡς
gratum viderentur. Quorum aptissimum est Dii Pythagorei apud Stobaeum LXV. 16. de hominibus formosis dicentis
τούτως γάρ, ὡς ἐνί, ισσότερον οἱ πλεῦνες ὡς θεὼς ἢ θεῶν ἱδρύματα ὑποτρέχοντι καὶ θεραπεύοντι, θρησκεύοντες οὐ καλὰν θρήσκειαν
. Recte sic ibi vulgo legebatur,
ὡς ἐνί
, ut uno verbo dicam, neque debebat hoc, quamvis cum auctoritate, in
ὡς ví
mutari. Et hoc quidem exemplum eo memorabile est, quia non licet in
ἢ ὡς
scribi, quo fortasse remedio uti quis velit in aliis, ut apud Lysiam or. VII. 12. quae est de oleis excisis,
ἐγὼ τοίνυν, ὦ βουλή, ἐν μὲν τῷ τέως χρόνῳ, ὅσοι με φάσκοιεν δεινὸν καὶ ἀκριβῆ καὶ οὐδὲν ἂν εἰκῇ καὶ ἀλογίστως ποιῆσαι, ἠγανάκτουν ἄν, ἡγούμενος μᾶλλον λέγεσθαι ὡς μοι προςήκει
. Quo in loco ex
μᾶλλον
repetendum
δεινὸν καὶ ἀκριβῆ
. Εt §. 31.
ἐγὼ γὰρ τὰ ἐμοὶ προςτεταγμένα ἅπαντα προθυμότερον πεποίηκα ὡς ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως ἠναγκαζόμην
. Αc profecto in priore horum locorum Dobraeus Adv. I. p. 206. vel
ὧν
vel
ἢ
vel
ἢ ὡς
scribi voluit. Omninoque Lysiae et Stobaeo, quorum scriptorum libri plurimis et maximis inquinati sunt librariorum erroribus, non multum in huiusmodi rebus tribui potest. Quare ego quoque et Lysiae illa exempla correctione indigere, et in Dii verbis pro
ὡς
scribendum
ἢ
arbitror, quarum vocularum quam facilis permutatio sit ostendit Bastius in diss. palaeogr. p. 780. In versibus Xenophanis apud Ath. XII. p. 526. A. recte scribitur
οὐ μείους ἤπερ χίλιοι εἰς ἐπίπαν
. Αpud Xenophontem Hist. Gr. II. 3, 16. scribendum est
εἰ δὲ – ἧττόν τι οἴει ἢ ὥςπερ τυραννίδος ταύτης τῆς ἀρχῆς χρῆναι ἐπιμελεῖσθαι
: conf. ibi Schneiderum. Alia quae afferuntur, in quibus
ὡς
aut simile vocabulum pro
ἤ
positum sit, aut alius generis sunt, aut male intellecta. Non potest huc referri quod Demosthenes dixit in or. contra Aristogitonem prima S. 53. p. 786, 20.
εἶτ᾿ ὃν οὐδὲ τῶν ἐν λίθου θεῶν εἰκός ἐστι τυχεῖν ἵλεων, ἀλλ᾽ εἰς τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς ὠσθῆναι διὰ τὴν πονηρίαν τοῦ βίου, τοῦτον ὑμεῖς ἀδικοῦντα λαβόντες οὐ μόνον οὐ τιμωρήσεσθε, ἀλλὰ καὶ μειζόνων ἀξιώσαντες δωρεῶν ἀφήσετε ὡς τοὺς εὐεργέτας;
Significat enim
ὡς
hic idem quod
εἰς
, oppositaque sunt haec verba,
ἀφήσετε ὡς τοὺς εὐεργέτας
, illis,
εἰς τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς ὠσθῆναι
. Neque magis huc referri potest illud Damoxeni apud Galenum vol. II. p. 422. ed. Bas. sive vol. XIII. p. 1053. ed. Lips.
πλεῖον δὲ τοῦ χειμῶνος, ὡς λίτραν, βάλ' εἰς οἴνου Φαλερίνου μέλανος οὐγκίας δέκα
. Sic ibi, non
πλεῖόν τε
, scribendum. Non enim plus quam libram dicit, sed circiter una libra plus quam si non hieme miscetur medicamentum. Nam quae praecedunt verba, quae sic scripta leguntur,
λίτραν τ' ἐλαίου τοῦ Σαβίνου δὶς δ'
, ita videntur esse corrigenda,
λίτρας τ᾽ ἐλαίου τοῦ Σαβίνου τέσσαρας
, quoniam
δὶς δ'
ex fine versus, qui hunc praecedit, pro simplici
δ'
repetitum esse verisimile est. Non perspexit illius rationis naturam, qua nomini vel adverbio comparativo cum negatione coniuncto
ὡς
additur, Schaeferus ad Plutarchum vol. IV. p. 394. Nam id genus loquendi significat nihil aeque ut. Dixit de eo Nitzschius in dissertatione de comparativis Graecae linguae modis editioni Ionis Platonici adiecta p. 76. Sic et in illo Plutarchi loco, Coriol. 36.
καὶ μὴν οὐδενὶ μᾶλλον ἔπρεπε τηρεῖν χάριν ὡς σοί, πικρῶς οὕτως ἀχαριστίαν ἐπεξιόντι
: et apud Polybium ΙΙΙ. 12, 5.
διὸ καὶ τοὺς ἐπὶ πραγμάτων ταττομένους χρὴ τῶν τοιούτων οὐδενὸς μᾶλλον φροντίζειν ὡς τοῦ μὴ λανθάνειν τὰς προαιρέσεις τῶν διαλυομένων τὰς ἔχθρας, ἢ συντιθεμένων τὰς φιλίας
. VII. 4, 5.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα φάσκοντες μηδενὶ καθήκειν μᾶλλον τὴν ἁπάντων Σικελιωτῶν ἀρχὴν ὡς ἐκείνῳ
. ΧΙ. 2, 9.
Ἀσδρούβας δέ, ἕως μὲν ἦν ἐλπὶς ἐκ τῶν κατὰ λόγον τοῦ δύνασθαι πράττειν ἄξιόν τι τῶν προβεβιωμένων, οὐδενὸς μᾶλλον προενοεῖτο κατὰ τοὺς κινδύνους ὡς τῆς αὑτοῦ σωτηρίας
. Ad idem genus pertinent etiam Platonis exempla in Apologia Socratis c. 26. p. 36. D. quo loco additum
οὕτως
ante
ὡς
aperte monstrat verae explicationis viam, et de rep. VII. p. 526. C. Euripides Hippol. 530.
οὔτε γὰρ πυρὸς οὔτ᾽ ἄστρων ὑπέρτερον βέλος, οἷον τὸ τῆς Ἀφροδίτας, ἵησιν ἐκ χερῶν Ἔρως ὁ Διὸς παῖς
. Theocritus IX. 33.
οὔτε γὰρ ὕπνος, οὔτ᾽ ἔαρ ἐξαπίνας γλυκερώτερον, οὔτε μελίσσαις ἄνθεα, ὅσσον ἐμὶν Μῶσαι φίλαι
.

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προθυμεῖ: Libri
προθυμῇ
.

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ἱστορήσωμεν:
ἱστορήσομεν
a pr. manu M.

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αὐτῆς:
αὑτῆς
Μ.

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λεγούσης: Idem a pr. manu
λεγούσας
.

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τἀποκλαῦσαι:
ὡς κ ἀποκλαῦσαι
Μ.
ὡς κἀποκλαῦσαι
Vit. aliique nonnulli.
ὡς ἀποκλαῖσαι
G. Lips. Aug. Bess. Ald. Rob.
γρ. ὡς ἀποκλαῦσαι
Par. B.
ὥστ᾽ ἀποκλαῦσαι
Par. A. B. Vind. 1. 3.
ὡς τ᾿ ἀποκλαῖσαι
Turn.
ὡς τἀποκλαῦσαι
habere dicuntur Ven. 2. 3. Cantabr. 2. Par. F.

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κἀποδύρασθαι:
κἀποδύρασθαι
M. Lips. Aug. aliique.
κἀποδύρεσθαι
G. Vit. edd. vett.

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ὅπῃ:
ὅποι
M. G. Vit. aliique nonnulli et Rob.
ὅπῃ
Lips. Aug. Ald.

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μέλλει:
μέλλοι
M. Cantabr. 1. Par. C.

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ἔχει:
ἔχειν
Lips. Ald.

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ὑμῖν:
ἡμῖν
Lips.

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ἀπιστῆσαί:
ἀποστῆσαι
Vit. cum glossa
παρακοῦσαι
, quae in G. ad
ἀπιστῆσαι
adscripta est.

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πᾶν ὅπερ προςχρήζετε:
τὸ πᾶν ὅπερ χρήζεται
Lips. Aug. sed in Lips. correctum
χρήζετε
.

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πεύσεσθε:
πεύσοισθε
Lips. Aug. Rob.

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αἰσχύνομαι:
ὀδύρομαι
M. G. Vit. Lips. Aug. Par. D. N. Ven. 3. Bess. Vind. quattuor et edd. vett. In M. Lips. Par. B. D. N. Mosc. 1. adnotatum
γρ. αἰσχύνομαι
. Id in textu habent Cantabr. 1. 2. Deplorari mutationem formae sponte apparet, quia de ea re conqueritur: sed caussam mutatae formae non sine pudore aperire poterat Io.

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διαφθορὰν:
διαφορὰν
Lips.

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ἀεὶ:
αἰεὶ
Μ. Cantabr. 1.

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ὄψεις:
ὄψει
ante sec. manus correctionem M.

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πωλεύμεναι:
πωλεύμεναι
, Par. C. et, superscripto a recentiore manu
ο
, Μ.
πολεύμεναι
G. Vit. Lips. Aug. edd. vett.
πολούμεναι
Par. D. Videtur servari posse Homerica forma, Od. II. 55. XVII. 534.
οἳ δ᾽ εἰς ἡμέτερον πωλεύμενοι ἤματα πάντα
.

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εὐδαίμων:
εὐδαίμων
M. in quo sec. manus ultimae syllabae
o
superscripsit, Vit. Lips. Aug. Par. B. Ald. Turn. quod recte praeferre videtur Elmsleius.
εὐδαῖμον
G. Vind. 2. 4. Bess. Rob.
εὐδαιμον
Ven. 3.

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παρθενεύει:
παρθενεύεις
Vind. 1. 3, Ceteri
παρθενεύῃ
.

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τέθαλπται:
τέθωπται
, cum glossa
κατακαίεται
, Vit.

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δαρόν:
δηρὸν
Aug.

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συναίρεσθαι:
ξυναίρεσθαι γρ. ξυνάρασθαι
Par. B. Ceteri
συναίρεσθαι
.

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'πολακτίσῃς:
μὴ 'πιλακτίσῃς
Vit.
μὴ πωλακτήσει
Lips.
μὴ ἀπολακτήσει
Aug.

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τὸ Ζηνός:
τὸ Διὸς
Lips. Aug.

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Λέρνης:
Λέρνην
Lips. Aug.

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βουστάσεις τε πρὸς πατρός:
β. τε καὶ πρὸς πατρὸς
Vit.

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ὀνείμασιν:
ὀνείρασιν
Cantabr. 1. Ald. Rob. Ceteri
ὀνείμασιν
.

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ἔςτε:
ὥστε
Vit.

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νυκτίφοιτ':
νυκτίφαντ'
Μ. Rob.

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κἀπὶ Δωδώνης:
κἀπὶ Δωδώνην
Lips. Aug. Turn.
κἀπὶ Δωδώνης
M. G. Vit. aliique et Ald. Rob. atque aliquot libri Thomae M. qui p. 180, 11. hunc versum et partem sequentis affert. Atticam hanc constructionem vocant schol. ad Il. III. 5. V. 700. Eustathius p. 371. seq.

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πυκνοὺς:
συχνούς
, vulgare verbum, Arund. et Thomas M.

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ἴαλλεν:
ἴαλεν
G. Vit. aliique et Ald. Rob.

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μάθοι:
μάθοι
M. Lips. Aug. Turn. In Lips.
η
superscriptum.
μάθῃ
G. Vit. aliique et Ald. Rob.

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δαίμοσιν:
δαίμοσι
Vit. edd. vett.

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πράσσειν:
πράσσειν
M. Vit. Par. C. et superscriptum in Par. Β.
πράττειν
G. Lips. edd. vett.
πτάτο.τειν
Aug.

661. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-750

φίλα:
φίλωι
(non φίλως), superscripto a recentiore manu
α
, Μ. Α
φίλα
vulgata scriptura est.
φίλον
G. Lips. Aug. Vind. 2. 4. In Lips. superscriptum
α
.

663. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-751

ἀσήμους:
ἀσήμους
Μ. (si recte adnotatum ex M.) G. Vit. aliique et Rob.
ἀσήμως
Lips. Aug. Ald. Turn.

663. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-752

δυςκρίτως τ':
δυςκρίτως τ'
M. G. Lips. Aug. aliique et Ald. Turn.
δυςκρίτως
Vit.
δυσκρίτους τ'
Par. C. Rob.

664. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-753

βάξις ἦλθεν:
ἦλθε βάξις
Cantabr. 1. 2. Mosc. 1. Ceteri omnes, nominatim M. G. Vit. Lips. Aug. Ven. 3. Bess. edd. vett.
βάξις ἦλθεν
.

667. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-754

ἀλᾶσθαι:
ἁλᾶσθαι
G. Lips. Ald. Rob. In Lips. etiam alterum
a
supra scriptum. Idem codex ad
ἐσχάτοις
superscriptum habet
η
. Blomfieldius cum extremis verbis comparavit Heliodori hoc Aethiop. VI. prope finem,
γύναιον ὑπ᾽ ἔρωτος σεσοβημένον καὶ πᾶσαν ὡς εἰπεῖν ἐρωμένου τινὸς ἐπὶ γῆν ἕνεκεν ἀλωμένου· ᾧ μετὰ μυρίους μὲν μόχθους, μυρίους δὲ κινδύνους “γῆς ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτοις ὅροις” τύχῃ σὺν λαμπρᾷ καὶ βασιλικῇ συμβιώσεται
.

668. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-755

θέλοι:
θέλοι
Μ. G. Vit. Turn. In G.
θέλει
et
θέλῃ
adscriptum.
θέλῃ
Lips. Aug. aliique nonnulli et Ald. Rob.

668. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-756

πυρωπὸν:
πυρωτὸν
Μ.

669. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-757

ἐξαϊστώσει:
ἐξαϊστώσει
M. Non opus est Blomfieldii coniectura
ἐξαιστώσοι
.

669. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-758

γένος:
γένος
, non
μένος
, etiam M. habere videtur.

671. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-759

ἐξήλασέν με:
ἐξήλασέν με
M. et ed. Vict.
ἐξήλασε με
G. Vit. Lips. Aug. aliique et edd. ante Vict.

671. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-760

κἀπέκλεισε:
κἀπέκλεισεν
Μ.

672. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-761

ἐπηνάγκαζέ νιν:
ἐπαναγκαζέ νιν
G.

674. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-762

εὐθὺς δὲ μορφὴ:
εὐθὺς οὖν μορφή
Thomas M. p. 93, 8.

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κεράστις:
κεράστης
Vit.
κεράστη
Rob.

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ὡς:
ὡς
omissum, sed postea ab eadem manu insertum in Vit.

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ὀξυστόμῳ:
ὀξυτόμῳ
Lips. Rob.

676. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-766

ἐμμανεῖ σκιρτήματι:
ἐμμανεῖ σκιρτήματι
, ad postremam syllabam superscripto
α
, Lips. Non reprehendi posset
ἐμμανῆ σκιρτήματα
.

677. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-767

Κεγχρείας:
Κερχνείας
Μ. Rob. Turn.
γρ. Κερχνείας
Lips.
Κεγχρείας
G. Vit. Lips. Aug. Par. A. B. E. Ox. Arund. Bess. Vind. quattuor et Ald.
Κεγχρείας
, formam, quae ut asperior ita antiquior fuerit, praeferendam censebat contra Spanhemium ad Callim. h. Del. 271. Valckenarius ad Phoen. 1395.
Κεγχρεύς
tantum Stephanus Byzantius commemorat, et sic etiam Pausanias II. 24, 7. Hoc cum Aurato et Brunckio praetuli.

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Λέρνης τ᾽ ἐς ἄκρην:
Λέρνης ἄκρην τε
M. G. Ven. 3. Bess. Turn. In Par. B. adnotatum
γρ. κρήνην
. Atque
λ. κρήνην τε
habent Lips. Aug. Ald. Rob.
Λέρνης ἄκραν τε
Par. A. Colb. 2.
τε
omittunt Colb. 1. Cantabr. 1.
Λέρνης ἐς ἄκρην
, supra scripto
ἐς
, sic tamen ut pro ipso textus vocabulo habendum sit, addita super eo glossa
εἰς
, Vit. Canteri coniecturam,
Λέρνης τε κρήνην
, recepit Blomfieldius, sed mavult
ἀκτήν τε Λέρνης
. Pessime Spanhemius ad Callim. Lav. Pall. 46.
Λέρνης ἀκτήν τε
, etsi recte comparans Pindari
Λερναίας ἀπ' ἀκτᾶς
Ol. VII. 60. Hinc ego viam monstrante codice Vit. dedi
Λέρνης τ' ἐς ἀκτήν
, inciditque in idem Reisigius. Buttmannus, cuius accurata de Lerna disputatio est in Mythologi vol. II. p. 93. seqq. neque horum Aeschyli verborum recordatus est, nec memor fuit Hemsterhusii, a quo ad Luciani Dial. mar. VI. 1. vol. I. p. 303. breviter eadem fere, quae ipse copiosius persecutus est, indicata sunt. De
Λερναίῳ ἀκτῇ
v. Heffterum de cultu deorum apud Rhodios II. p. 62. de fonte Lernaeo Ungeri Thebana paradoxa p. 191.ss.

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τοὺς ἐμοὺς:
τὰς ἐμὰς
Vit.

680. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-770

κατὰ στίβους:
κατὰ στίβους
M. G. Vit. Ven. 3. Vind. quattuor et Turn.

681. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-771

αἰφνίδιος: Speciosa est Elmsleii coniectura, scripsisse Aeschylum
ἀφνίδιος
, ab
ἄφνω
, quae forma hodie apud solum exstet Hesychium,
ἀφνιδίως, αἰφνιδίως, ἄφνω
. Tamen ille mihi non persuasit, qui videam quidem analogiae convenire eam formam, sed tamen suspectam habeam, quum usus diphthongum etiam in prosa oratione, si libris fides est, probasse videatur. Negavitque etiam Porsonus, Dobraeo teste in Aristophanicis p. (145.) umquam Atticos dixisse
ἀφνιδίως
. Atque illa quae in codicibus illis adscripta est interpretatio
αἰφνίδιος
pridem me moverat, ut
αἰφνίδιος
vel ex
αἰφνιδίως
vel ex ipso illo cui interpretando inservire
αἰφνίδιος
poterat,
ἀφνιδίως
ortum existimarem. Itaque illam Hesychii glossam ad hunc ipsum referri credo Aeschyli versum. Neque enim facile aliquem adductum iri puto, ut
αἰφνηδίς
, quae forma ex Bekkeri Anecd. p. 1310. innotuit, Aeschylo tribuat.

682. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-772

οἰστροπλὴξ:
οἰστροπλὴξ
M. Vit.
οἰστρόπληξ
G. Lips. Aug.
οἰστρόπληγε
Bess. Ald. sed Bess. cum accentu et in media et in ultima syllaba, ut in Rob.
οἰστρόπληξ
scriptum est. V. Lob. Paralip. p. 279.

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θείᾳ:
θείας
Lips. Aug.

683. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-774

γῆν πρὸ γῆς:
γῆς πρὸς γῆν
G. Vit. Lips. Aug. aliique et Ald.
γῆς πρὸ γῆν
Bess.
γῆν πρὸς γῆς
vel
γῆς πρὸς γῆς
alii.
γῆν ἐκ γῆς
Rob.
γῆν προγῆς
, a sec. manu ad
προ
adscripto accentu et
σ
, Μ.
γῆν πρὸ γῆς
Turn. Cicero ad Att. XIV. 10.
itaque γῆν πρὸ γῆς cogito
.

684. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-775

ὅ τι:
ἔτι
M. G. Vit. Lips. Aug. Colb. 1. 2. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ven. 2. 3. Par. H. Vindobonenses et Rob. Quae lectio ad
πόνον
spectat, quod nonnulli v. sequente habent.
ὅτι
Ald.
ὅ,τι
Turn.

685. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-776

πόνων:
πόνον
M. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ven. 2. Vind. 3. Ald.
πόνου
Rob. Ceteri
πόνων
.

685. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-777

σήμαινε:
σήμαινε
Vit. Lips. Aug. Colb. 1.
σήμηνον
Cantabr. 2. et vulgatae superscriptum Mosc. 1.

685. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-778

μηδέ μ':
μηδ' ἔμ'
, eraso apostrophe post
μηδ
, fuit enim antea
μηδ' ἐμ
, Μ.

686. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-779

ψευδέσιν:
ψεύδεσσιν
, accentu a sec. manu correcto, M.
ψευδέσι
G. Vit. Lips. Aug. edd. ante Victorianam.

687. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-780

συνθέτους:
ξυνθέτους
Colb. 2. Cantabr. 2. Hoc versu in media pagina finitur codex Augustanus.

688. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-781

ἄπεχε:
ἄπεσχε
Par. E. Ceteri omnes
ἄπεχε
. Id quoniam in scholiis per
σιώπα
explicatur, Brunckius ex Abreschii sententia
ἔπεχε
scripsit. Sed in G. glossa est
ἀφίστασο
, in Par. A.
ἀποχώρει
, nec quidquam mutandum. Versus est dimeter paeonicus.

689. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-782

οὐπώποτ', οὐπώποτ' ηὔχουν ξένους:
οὔποτ᾽ οὔποτ' ηὐχόμην ξένους
M. G. Rob.
οὔποτ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ηὔχουν ξένους
Vit. Colb. 1. 2. Par. C. D. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ven. 2.
γρ. ψυχόμην
οι
γρ. ξύννους
Par. Β.
οὔποτ᾽ οὔποτ' ηὔχουν ξένη
Lips.
οὐπώποτ' ηὐχόμην ξένους
Ven. 1. Bess. Vind. 1. 2. 4. Οx.
οὐπώποτ' ηὔχουν ξένους
Ald. Turn. Ex his lectionibus prodire videtur usitatissimum metrum,
οὐπώποτ', οὐπώποτ' ηὔχουν ξένους
.

690. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-783

ἐς:
εἰς
G. Vit.

690. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-784

δυςθέατα:
δυσθέρατα
Lips.

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καὶ:
και
omittunt M. Vit. et pauci alii.

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πήματα, λύματ᾽, ἀμφήκει σὺν κέντρῳ:
πήματα λύματα δείματ' ἀμφήκει κέντρῳ
libri, nisi quod Vind. 1. ordine mutato habet
δείματα λύματ'
, Cantabr. 2. Par. D. F.
λύματα καὶ δείματα
, Guelf.
ἀμφηκείου
. Insoliti hi numeri, valdeque verisimile est
δείματα
nihil esse nisi corruptam ex
λύματα
scripturam, vel diversam pro illo lectionem. Quare scripsi
πήματα, λύματ᾽ ἀμφήκει σὺν κέντρῳ
. Scholiastae
διὰ κέντρου
et
ἐν κέντρῳ
.

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ψύχειν: Meinekius in Diurnis antiq. a. 1844. II. p. 11. scribendum putat
ψήχειν
, afferens ex Stobaeo XXXVIII. 53.
ὥςπερ ὁ ἰὸς σίδηρον, οὕτως ὁ φθόνος τὴν ἔχουσαν ψυχὴν ἐξαναψήχει
. Sed Hesychius
ψύξας, ἀμβλύνας, τὴν ψυχὴν φυσήσας, ἄνεμον ποιήσας, πνεύσας
.

695. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-788

πέφρικ᾽ εἰςιδοῦσα:
εἰςιδοῦσα
M. G. Lips. Bess. aliique. Recte Vit. et edd. vett.
εἰσιδοῦσα
. Mirum est quod nullus liber praebet
πέφρικά σ'
, ut versus sit iambicus trimeter catalecticus. Quamquam ne librorum quidem scriptura reprehendi potest.

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πρό γε:
πρό γε
a pr. manu M. Id in
πρό γε
sec. manus mutavit, recentior
ό
supra adscripsit.
πρὸ γε
Brunckius scribendum censuit. Recte vulgo
πρό γε
.

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ἔςτ᾽ ἂν:
ὥστ᾽ ἂν
Vit. Lips.

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προςμάθῃς:
προσμάθοις
G. Vind. 1. 3.

698. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-792

λέγ᾽, ἐκδίδασκε:
λέγε δίδασκε
Vit. Colb. 1.

698. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-793

τοῖς νοσοῦσί τοι:
τοῖς νοσοῦσί τοι
Μ. G. aliique.
τοῖς νοσοῦσί τι
Lips. Turn.
τοῖς νοσοῦσι τὸ
Ald. Rob.
τοῖς νοσοῦσι γὰρ
Vit. aliique.

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προὐξεπίστασθαι:
προὐξεπίσταμαι
Lips.

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χρείαν:
χρείαν
M. (si recte adnotatum ex M.) G. Vit. aliique.
χρείαν
Lips. edd. vett.

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ἀμφ' ἑαυτῆς:
ἀφ' ἑαυτῆς
G. Vit. aliique et Rob.
ἀφ' ἑαυτῆς
Lips.

703. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-797

ἀκούσαθ':
ἀκούσασθ'
Lips. Ald. Rob. sed in Lips. posterius
o
deletum.
ἄκουε
Vit.

704. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-798

τήνδε τὴν νεάνιδα:
τήνδε τήνδε νεάνιδα
a pr. manu M.

705. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-799

σύ τ':
σὺ δ'
G. edd. vett.
σύ τ'
M. Vit. Lips. aliique.
σύ
est in libris apud Stephanum Byz. qui hunc versum in
Ἰναχία
affert. Recepit Blomfieldius cum Brunckio
σύ τ'
, idque recte quidem, sed non recta adductus caussa, quum hoc magis e consuetudine tragicorum esse putavit, qui aliter libentius dixissent
Ἰνάχειον σπέρμα, σὺ δέ
. Non tragicorum illa verborum collocatio propria est, sed communis omnium Graecorum ; hoc autem loco non apta, quia nulla vis est in appellatione nominis. Nam hic aut, si distingueret poeta personas,
σὺ δ' Ἰνάχειον σπέρμα
, aut, si coniungeret,
σύ τε
dicendum erat. Coniunxit autem, quia in mente habet vobis satis factum est, tibique Io, satis fiet. In fine versus in Lips. mirabili oscitantia scriptum est
εἰς τῆς Ἥρας
, sed animadverso errore supra scriptum
τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους
.

706. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-800

βάλ':
μάθ' ριο βάλ
Μ. et superscripto
βάλ'
Colb. 1.
βάλλ'
aliquot codices.

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τέρματ᾽ ἐκμάθῃς:
τέρμ᾽ ἐκμάθῃς
Vit. Colb. 1.

707. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-802

μὲν:
μὲν
omittunt Vit. Lips. sed in Vit. postea supra scriptum est.

707. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-803

ἐνθένδ':
ἐνθάδ'
Lips. et aliquot alii.

707. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-804

ἀντολὰς:
ἀντολὰς
M. aliique et ed. Victorii.
γρ. ἀνατολὰς
Par. B.
ἀνατολὰς
Rob.
ἀνατολὰς
, eraso
α
, G.
ἀνατολὰς
Vit. aliique et Ald. Turn.

708. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-805

τρέψασα:
στρέψασα
M. G. ceterique codd. plerique et edd. vett.
τρέψασα
Vit. Lips. Vulgatae
στρέψασα
in G. superscriptum
τρέψασα, κλίνασα
. Non dubitavi recipere
τρέψασα
, partim quia de itinere, quod nunc novum susceptura sit Io, sermo est, partim quod illa, ut ex v. 830-839. apparet, ab occidente venit, ut pergere potius versus orientem quam se retro vertere sit dicenda.

708. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-806

στεῖχ':
στῆχ'
Lips.

708. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-807

γύας:
γύας
Lips. aliique et Ald. Rob.

709. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-808

ἀφίξει: Libri
ἀφίξῃ
.

710. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-809

ναίουσ':
νέουσ'
Μ.

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ἐξηρτημένοι: Affert hunc versum Thomas M. p. 146, 10.
ἐξηρτυμένοι
Arund.

712. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-811

πελάζειν:
πολάζειν
Lips.

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ἁλιστόνοις πόδας:
ἁλιστόνοις γυίο πόδας
M. G. Vit. Lips. Par. E. Ven. 1. 2. Bess. Barocc. Ald. Rob. Vict.
γυίο πόποδας
Arund. In M. ultimae in
γυίο πόδας
syllabae a recentiore manu
ων
supra adscriptum.
ἀλλ᾽ ἁλιστόνοις πόδας
Turn. Cant. et sic scribi voluit Scaliger. Porsonus ante
ἁλιστόνοις
posuit obelum, quod vocabulum Blomfieldio G. Burgesius ingeniose in
Ἁλιζώνοις
mutare videbatur. Immo infelicissima illa coniectura est. Non enim nominasset poeta hanc gentem ut notam, sed dixisset quum ad Halizones perveneris. Nihil vitii est in
ἁλιστόνοις
. Intelliguntur montes quos alluit Pontus Euxinus. De altero vocabulo perinepta narrat scholiastes, esse qui
γε πόδας
legant, esse etiam qui
Γύποδας
pro
Γυμνόποδας
dictum putent, quod gentis nomen fuerit. Nec laudaverim Elmsleii suspicionem, legendum esse
ἀλλ᾽ ἁλιστόνοις γ᾽ ὑποχρίμπτουσα ῥαχίαισιν
, quae et veri similitudinis nihil habet et vitiosa est propter inutile
γε
. Duplex cogitari vitii origo potest. Aut
γυῖα
scripsit poeta, hoc modo,
ἀλλὰ γυῖ᾽ ἁλιστόνοις
, cuius verbi explicatio
πόδας
in textum venit: nam Hesychius
γυῖα, μέλη, χεῖρές τε καὶ πόδες
: aut aberrans oculis librarius aliquis ad v. 708. ubi est
ἀνηρότους γύας
, hoc
γυ
, superscripto per compendium
ας
posuerat, animadversoque errore addiderat
πόδας
, lectionem genuinam. Id quum veri similius altero videretur, non dubitavi cum aliis scripturam a Turnebi editione profectam recipere.

713. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-813

χρίμπτουσα:
χρίπτουσα ῥαχίεσι
, supra adscripto
μπ
, Lips.

713. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-814

ἐκπερᾶν:
ἐκπέρα. γρ. ἐκπερῶν
Par. B. Mirum quod Elmsleius nominativi cum infinitivo constructione offensus est, ut
ἐκπέρᾳ
scribi vellet.

716. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-815

πρόςπλαστοι:
πρόσπλακτοι
Par. E. Ceteri omnes
πρόςπλαστοι
. Recte vero Elmsleius
πρόσπλατοι
.

717. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-816

ὑβριστὴν ποταμὸν:
ἕξεις δ'
et
γρ. εἰς
Par. B. Sola Robortelli editio
Ἄραξιν
. Ceteri libri omnes
ὑβριστήν
, quod Schützius non adiectivum, sed ipsum nomen fluvii esse putabat. At neque alii norunt fluvium Hybristen nec profecto Aeschylus. Sed quum et scholiastae Araxen intelligi dicant et Eustathius ad Dionysii v. 739. sic scribat,
τοῦ δὲ Μασσαγετικοῦ τούτου Ἀράξου μέμνηται καὶ Αἰσχύλος, καὶ ἀρέσκεται καὶ ἐκεῖνος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀράσσειν καλεῖσθαι αὐτόν
, non dubitandum esse videtur quin ipsum illud nomen Aeschylus posuerit. Quod si eum fluvium Hybristen appellasset, non id praeteriturus erat Eustathius. Itaque quum neque nomen fluvii sit Hybristes, prorsus autem fieri non potuerit, ut non nominaret poeta fluvium quem
οὐ ψευδώνυμον
esse diceret, certissimum est post hunc versum excidisse alium, in quo nomen Araxis erat, veluti
σμερδναῖς Ἀράξην κύμασιν βρυχώμενον
. In cod. Mosc. adnotatum
γρ. οὐκ εὐώνυμον
, quae grammatici alicuius coniectura esse videtur.

719. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-817

εὔβατος:
ἄβατος
G.
εὔατος
Lips.

720. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-818

αὐτὸν Καύκασον:
αὐτὸν τὸν Καύκασον
Vit. et pauci alii.

720. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-819

μόλῃς:
μόλοις
, erasa alia lectione, superscripto
ἔλθοις
, G.
μόλις
Lips.

720. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-820

ὀρῶν:
ὁρῶν
Lips.

722. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-821

ἀπ' αὐτῶν:
ἐπ' αὐτῶν
G.

722. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-822

ἀστρογείτονας:
ἀστυγείτονας
Vit. Lips. sed Lips. in margine
ἀπὸ
, quod
ἀστρο
esse debebat. Respexit hunc versum Eustathius p. 733, 41. Idem p. 1390, 20.
Αἰσχύλος δὲ ἀστρογείτονας λέγει τὰς τοῦ Καυκάσου κορυφάς
.

723. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-823

ἐς:
εἰς
Vit.

725. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-824

ἵξει:
ἥξεις
M. G. Vit. Bess. Vind. omnes et edd. vett. quae scriptura adnotata est in Par. B. qui codex cum Par. A. Arund. Cantabr. 2. habet
ἵξεις
.
ἥξεις
, superscripto posteriori syllabae
ει
, Lips.

725. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-825

στυγάνορ':
στυγάνορα
plene G. Vit. aliique et Ald. Rob.

726. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-826

κατοικιοῦσιν:
κατοικοῦσι
G. Lips. Par. E. et ante correctionem M. Vit.

727. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-827

Σαλμυδησσία:
Σαλμυδισσία
Μ. G. Bess.
Σαλμυδισία
Vit. Aliter in aliis peccatum.
Σαλμυδησία
Ald. Rob.
Σαλμυδησσία
recte Lips. Ven. 3. Vind. 2. 3. 4. Turn. et id restituit recentior manus in M. Haec verba,
Σαλμυδησσία γνάθος
, affert Eustathius p. 309, 3. et eadem idem una cum sequente versu p. 560, 18. ac scholiastes Sophoclis ad Ant. 966.

728. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-828

ναύταισι:
ναύταισι
legitur apud Eustathium p. 560, 19. et Tzetzam ad Lycophr. 1286.
ναύτοισι
Ald.
ναύτης
Rob.
ναύτῃσι
ceteri libri et scholiastes Sophoclis ad Ant. 969. et Triclinius ad Oed. R. 183.

728. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-829

μητρυιὰ:
μητρυιὰ
a pr. manu M.

729. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-830

αὗταί σ':
αὗταί σ'
Vit. et a pr. manu M.
αὗται δ'
Lips.

729. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-831

ὁδηγήσουσι:
ὁδηγήσουσι
, littera
υ
a rec. manu scripta, M.

730. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-832

στενοπόροις:
στενοπόρου
G. et adscriptum in Par. B.
στενωπόρου
Rob.

731. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-833

θρασυσπλάγχνως:
θρασυσπλάχνως
Lips.
θρασύσπλαγχνον
aliquot codices.

732. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-834

αὐλῶν': Illustravit
αὐλῶνα
I. G. Waltherus in Animadv. histor. et crit. p. 224. seq.

733-735. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-835

NA:
ἔσται - κεκλήσεται
affert Stephanus Byz. in v.
Βόσπορος
.

733. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-836

εἰςαεὶ:
εἰς ἀεὶ
divisim M. G. Vit. Lips.

734. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-837

Βόςπορος δ':
Βόσπορός τ'
Rob. Id probabat Elmsleius. Et
τε
et
δέ
bonum, sed sensu diverso.

734. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-838

ἐπώνυμος:
ἐπώνυμον
Vit.

735. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-839

λιποῦσα:
λιποῦσ᾽ Εὐρώπης
Vit.

736. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-840

ἤπειρον:
ἤπειρον δ'
ἥξεις G.

736. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-841

Ἀσιάδ':
Ἀσιάδ'
Elmsleio scribendum videbatur.

737. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-842

ὁμῶς:
οὕτως
a pr. manu M.

739. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-843

ἐπέρριψεν:
ἐπέῤῥεψε
Par. E. et ad
ε
superscripto
ι
Lips.
ὑπέρριψε
Cantabr. 2. Ceteri
ἐπέρριψε
.

742. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-844

μηδέπω 'ν προοιμίοις:
μηδ᾽ ἐπῶν προοιμίοις
M. addito a rec. manu supra
μηδ'
accentu, et sic G. Lips. aliique et Ald.
μηδ' αὖ ἐν προοιμίοις
Par. D. et
ν
supra versum scripto Vit.
μήδ' ἐπῶν προοίμια
Rob.
μηδέπω 'ν προοιμίοις
restituit Turnebus.

743. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-845

ἰώ μοί μοι, ἔ ἔ.:
ἰὼ ἰώ μοί μοι
Cantabr. 1. Rob. Ceteri
ἰὼ μοί μοι
. Deinde
ἔ ἔ
M. Vit. Lips. et sic vel
ἔ
alii. In Vit. minoribus litteris adscriptum
φεῦ φεῦ
. Quater
ἔ
G. Par. B. Bess. edd. vett.
ἔ ἔ αἰ αἰ
Par. D. Versus est iambicus ischiorrhogicus.

744. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-846

κἀναμυχθίζει:
κἀναμυχθίζει
libri praeter Vit. Colb. 1. in quibus
κἀναμοχθίζει
est.
Μυχθίζειν
ut Aeschyleum memorat Eustathius p. 440, 25. 1965, 48.

746. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-847

τι:
τι
Vit. ante rasuram, qua
τι
factum, et Ald. Rob. cum paucis codicibus.
τὸ
, addito
ι
, Lips.

749. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-848

ἀπὸ στυφλοῦ:
ἀποστύφλου
G. Vit. Lips. Ald. Rob.
ἀπὸ στυφλοῦ
Turn. et, ut videtur, M.
ἀπὸ στύφλου
Brunckius.

751. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-849

εἰςάπαξ:
εἰς ἅπαξ
M. G. Vit. Ald. Rob.

753. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-850

NA: In Vit. post
ἦ δυσπετῶς ἂν
statim sequitur
πημάτων ἀπαλλαγή
, sed eadem manus in ima pagina quae omiserat adiecit.

755. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-851

ἂν:
ἣν
M. aliique et Ald. Turn.
ἣν ἣν
G. Cantabr. 1. 2. Colb. 2. Vind. 3.
ἂν
ante
ἦν
supra versum Vit.
οὖν
Lips. Rob. cuius scripturae veritatem confirmat incerta sede fluctuans
ν
.

756. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-852

οὐδέν:
οὐ
omittunt Par. E. Vind. 2. 4. Pro eo
τὸ
Rob.

757. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-853

ἐκπέσῃ:
ἐκπέσοι
G. et aliquot alii.

759. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-854

ἥδοι᾽ ἄν:
ἥδοι᾽ ἄν
M. G. Lips. Par. A. B. Ven. 3. Bess. edd. vett.
ἡδοίμην ἄν
Cantabr. 1. 2.
ἡδοίμην ἄν
Par. D. Continuant M. G. edd. vett. hunc versum cum praecedente et sequente, ut omnes Io recitet. Verissime Dawesius in Misc. crit. p. 248. hunc versum Prometheo tribuendum et
ἥδοιο
scribendum esse vidit. Sed mira fuit Zeunii negligentia, qui non adnotaverit in Vit. et versibus his tribus recte personas suas attributas esse et perspicue scriptum legi
ἥδοιο ἂν
, addita glossa
εὐφρανθείης
. Personae etiam in Lips. recte in singulis versibus notatae.

760. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-855

πῶς δ᾽ οὐκ ἄν:
πῶς οὐκ
Vit. Colb. 1.

760. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-856

κακῶς:
κακά
Lips. Par. L. Rob.

761. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-857

σοι μαθεῖν:
μαθεῖν σοι
M. (v
σοι
in litura M.) G. Vit. Par. C. Bess. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ox. Vind. omnes et Ald. Rob.
μαθεῖν
Lips.
σοι μαθεῖν
Turn.

762. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-858

τύραννα:
τυράννων
Lips. et adscriptum in Par. B.

763. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-859

αὐτὸς πρὸς αὑτοῦ:
αὐτὸς πρὸς αὑτοῦ
G. Vit. Lips. Ald. Rob. Turn.
αὐτὸς πρὸς αὐτοῦ
Victorius.
πρὸς αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ
M. Cantabr. 1. 2. Arund. quod recte probavit Elmsleius.

763. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-860

κενοφρόνων:
κενόφρον
Lips. Rob.

766. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-861

θέορτον:
θέορτον
commemorat Eustathius p. 784, 4.

766. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-862

εἰ ῥητόν:
εἰρητὸν
M. Lips. Rob.

767. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-863

ῥητὸν: Temere Brunckius
ῥητὸν
in
θεμιτόν
mutavit. Aristophanes Αν. 1715.
οὐ φατὸν λέγειν
. Orpheus Arg. 931.
οὐ φατὸν εἰπεῖν
. Nec multum differt hoc Euripidis in Bacchis v. 472.
ἄρρητ' ἀβακχεύτοισιν εἰδέναι βροτῶν
.

767. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-864

τόδε:
τόδε
M. G. Vit. Cantabr. 1. Par. H. Colb. 2. Ven. 1. Bess. Rob.
τόνδε
Colb. 1.
τάδε
Lips. Ald. Turn.

769. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-865

NA: Affert hunc versum Tzetzes ad Lycophr. 178.

770. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-866

ἀпоστροφὴ:
οὐδέν ἐστιν αὐτῷ τις ἀποστροφὴ τύχης
Par. E. quocum in
τις
G. Lips. Vind. 2. consentiunt.

771. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-867

πλὴν ἔγωγ᾽ ἂν ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθείς: Magnopere fluctuant libri.
πρὶν ἂν ἔγωγ' ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῶ
Lips. Vind. 1. Ald.
πρὶν ἔγωγ᾽ ἂν ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῶ
Par. A. B. Turn. Sic etiam G. nisi quod λ habet a prima manu, sed altera lectione erasa, scriptum, et supra
πρὶν
atque
ἕως
adnotatum. Ac
πλὴν
etiam Par. E. Bess. Vind. 3. Vacuum vitio versum praebet Ven. 3.
πλὴν ἔγωγ᾽ ἂν ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῶ
. Sed
πλὴν
(a sec. manu M.)
ἔγωγ' ἂν ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθείς
M. Vit. In Vit.
λείπει τὸ βοηθήσω τούτῳ
adnotatum est.
πρὶν ἂν ἔγωγ᾽ ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθείς
Rob. Recepit
λυθείς
, quod pro diversa lectione etiam in Par. Β. adscriptum est, Porsonus, servato
πρὶν
et obelo ante
ἔγωγ'
apposito. Temere scripturas librorum pro suo arbitrio mutavit Brunckius. Burgesius ad Dawesii Misc. p. 492. ut Pauwius corrigendum putabat
πρίν γ' ἔγωγ᾽ ἂν ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῶ
. Elmsleius, qui
ἄν
a
πρίν
separari non posse monuit, scribendum censebat
πλὴν ἔγωγ᾽ ὅταν δεσμῶν λυθείς
aut
λυθῶ
. At
ὅταν λυθείς
certe, verbo per aposiopesin omisso, durissimum est. Acquiescendum erat in scriptura librorum M. et Vit. quae repetitis cogitatione e praecedente versu verbis hanc habet sententiam,
οὐ δῆτα, πλὴν ἔγωγ' ἂν ἀποστροφὴ αὐτῷ τῆςδε τύχης γενοίμην, λυθεὶς ἐκ δεσμῶν
.

772. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-868

λύσων σ':
σ'
omittunt M. Vit. Lips. Colb. 1. 2. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ven. 3.
ὁ λύσσων ἐστὶν
habet Par. G.
τις οὖν ὁ λύσων σε δεσμῶν ἄκοντος Διός
Guelf.

773. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-869

τιν':
τίν'
cum accentu M. Vit. Lips. Ald. Rob.

773. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-870

ἐκγόνων:
αὐτῶν ἐγγόνων
M. et
ἐγγόνων
etiam Par. B. Ven. 3. Bess.
γρ. ἐκγόνων
Par. Β.
αὐτῶν ἐκ γόνων
Ald. In Vit. qui vulgatum habet, supra scriptum
λῦσαι ἐμὲ καὶ αὐτόν
.

773. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-871

εἶναι:
εἶναι
omittit Lips.

774. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-872

παῖς σ':
σ'
omittunt Vit. aliique nonnulli et Ald.
ἦ 'μὸς παῖς ἀπαλλάξοι
Lips.

775. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-873

γένναν:
γένναν πρὸς δέκ'
G. Par. E. Ald.

775. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-874

ἄλλαισιν:
ἄλλαισι
M. Lips. Vind. 1. edd. vett.
ἄλλῃσι
G. Vit. Vind. 3.
ἄλλησιν
alii. Emendate Victorius.

776. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-875

εὐξύμβλητος:
ἐξυμβλῶτος
G.

776. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-876

χρησμῳδία:
χρησμοδία
Lips.

777. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-877

σαυτῆς γ':
σαυτῆς τ'
(non τις) M. Colb. 1. Ceteri
σαυτῆς
sive particula. Non debebat Blomfieldius
καὶ μήτι σαυτῆς
coniicere, sed
καὶ μηδὲ σαυτῆς γ'
.

779. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-878

δυοῖν:
δυοῖν
Μ. G. Vit. Lips. et ceteri quantum constat libri.
δυεῖν
ex Turnebi editione obtinuerat.

779. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-879

σε:
σε
, superscripto
σοι
, Vit.

779. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-880

θατέρῳ:
θάτερον
Colb. 1. et ante correctionem primae manus Vit.

780. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-881

ποίοιν:
ποίοιν
postremis tribus litteris in litura M.
ποίοις
Par. E.
ποίοισιν
Ven. 1.

782. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-882

φράσω:
φράσαι
Rob.

782. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-883

τὸν ἐκλύσοντ' ἐμέ:
τὸν ἐκλύσοντά με
G. et alii nonnulli codices.

783. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-884

χάριν:
τὴν δ᾽ ἐμοὶ δίδου
, omisso
χάριν
, G.

784. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-885

λόγους:
οἴκους
pro
λόγους
Vit. sed supra scriptum
γρ. καὶ λόγους καὶ τὰς ὑποσχέσεις
. Aliter alius glossator interpretatur,
τοὺς ἐμοὺς δηλονότι
. Elmsleius certissime se reponere putabat
λόγου
. Eo trahi possunt hae explicationes,
μὴ ἀπορρίψῃς καὶ οὐκ ἐθελήσῃς εἰπεῖν. ἀτίμους ποιήσῃς
.

785. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-886

γέγωνε:
καὶ τῆσδε μὲν, γέγονε
Lips.

785. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-887

λοιπὴν:
τῇ λοιπῇ
ante correctionem primae manus M.

786. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-888

τὸν λύσοντα:
λύσοντά σε
G. et pauci alii.
λύσοντα σὲ
Bess. Ald.

786. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-889

ποθῶ:
τοῦτο γὰρ νῦν ποθῶ
Lips. paucique alii et Ald.

788. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-890

μὴ οὐ:
οὐ
omittunt G. aliique codices et Rob. et a pr. manu M. Habent
οὐ
Vit. Lips. Ald. et superscriptum a sec. manu M.

788. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-891

ὅσον:
ὅσονπερ χρήζετε
Lips.

790. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-892

ἐγγράφου σὺ:
ἐγγράφουσα
a pr. manu habuisse videtur M.
ἐγγράφου σὺ
habet a secunda.

790. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-893

μνήμοσιν:
μνήμοσιν
Μ.
μνήμασι
G. Vit. Lips. aliique et edd. ante Vict. Imitationem scriptoris qui Hermippum dialogum fecit, apud Schneiderum in praefatione Theophrasti p. 25. adnotavit Dindorfius,
καὶ ἔγωγε μνήμασι δέλτοις φρενῶν ταῦτ᾽ ἐγγράψομαι
.

791. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-894

ὅρον:
ὅτ' ἂν
Vit.
ὅρων
G. Ald.

792. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-895

ἀντολὰς:
ἀντολὰς
Μ. G. Ald. Rob.
ἀνατολὰς
Vit. Lips. aliique.

792. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-896

φλογῶπας:
φλογώπας
Pauwius et ita, ut videtur, M.
φλογωπάς
G. Vit. Lips. et ceteri libri praeter Ald. quae
φλογοπὰς
habet.

792. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-897

ἡλιοστιβεῖς:
ἡλιοστιβεῖς
Lips. Post hunc versum aliquid excidisse Brunckius primus intellexit.

793. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-898

πόντου:
πόντον
M. G. Ven. 1. Bess. Ald.

793. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-899

ἔςτ᾽ ἂν:
ὥστ᾽ ἂν
Vit.

794. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-900

Κισθήνης:
Σκυθίνης
G. aliique et Ald. Rob.
Σκυθήνης
Colb. 1. aliique.
Κυθίνης
Ven. 3.
Κιθήνης
Vit. (de quo falsa refert Butlerus) Lips. Colb. 2.
Κισθένης
Turn. Veram scripturam
Κισθήνης
exhibent M. Par. A. C. D. et adscriptum
Κισθήνης
in Par. B. Harpocratio
Κισθήνη, Ἰσοκράτης Πανηγυρικῷ
(§. 153. p. 72. Steph.).
ὄρος τῆς Θράκης
. Κρατίνος
κἀνθένδ᾽ ἐπὶ τέρματα γῆς ἥξεις καὶ Κισθήνης ὄρος ὄψει
. Photius
Κισθήνη, ὄρος τῆς Θράκης
. Eadem Suidas, apud quem
Καστήνη
legitur. Hesychius
Κισσίνη, πόλις καὶ ὄρος ἐν Θράκῃ
. Aeolidis urbs Cisthene ad sinum Adramyttenum memoratur Stephano Byz. in
Ἴασσα
, Plinio V. 30. Melae I. 18. De ea Strabo XIII. p. 606. extrema
ἔξω δὲ τοῦ κόλπου καὶ τῆς Πυρρᾶς ἄκρας ἥ τε Κισθήνη ἐστί, πόλις ἔρημος, ἔχουσα λιμένα
. Haec videtur esse quam dixit Isocrates. Alia fuit urbs et insula inter Rhodum et insulas Chelidonias, de qua Strabo XIV. p. 666.
μεταξὺ δ᾽ ἐν τῷ λεχθέντι παράπλῳ νησία πολλὰ καὶ λιμένες· ὧν καὶ μεγίστη νῆσος καὶ πόλις ὁμώνυμος ἡ Κισθήνη
. Quem autem Thraciae locum sic appellatum Harpocratio aliique memorant, ex coniectura illic videntur collocasse. Rectius scholia Aeschyli
Κισθήνη, πόλις Λιβύης ἢ Αἰθιοπίας
. id enim coniunctio cum Gorgonibus docet. Acute Meinekius in praefatione Menandri p. 18. Cratini versum e Seriphiis esse coniecit, qua in fabula Persei ad Gorgones iter ad Aeschyli exemplum non sine iocis et risu descripserit poeta facetissimus.

794. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-901

ἵνα: Hiatu offensus Brunckius mollius esse putabat, si scriberetur
ὅπου αἱ Φορκίδες
. At is quidem soloecismus esset. Nam in re certa
οὗ
, non
ὅπου
, dicitur.

795. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-902

αἱ Φορκίδες: In
αἱ Φορκίδες
libri consentiunt omnes: quae scriptura non modo propter hiatum in praegresso
ἵνα
, sed magis etiam propter articulum displicet, qui nimium quantum dictioni poeticae adversatur. Nec dubito quin illud
αἱ Φορκίδες
interpretatio sit doctioris lectionis
Φορκυνίδες
, quam nominis formam etsi non inveni apud Graecos scriptores, tamen qui e Graecis sua hauserunt Romani poetae eam tuentur. Ovidius Metam. IV. 742.
ei imponit Phorcynidos ora Medusae
. V. 230.
et in partem Phorcynida transtulit illam
. Lucanus IX. 626.
squalebant late Phorcynidos arva Medusae
.

796. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-903

ὄμμ' ἐκτημέναι:
ὄμματ'
Par. E.
ἐκτειμέναι
Par. C.
ὄμμα κεκτημέναι
Ald. Rob. Vera scriptura in ceteris et apud Thomam M. p. 218, 18.

797. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-904

μονόδοντες:
μονώδοντες
M. Bess.

797. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-905

ἃς:
τὰς
Lips. aliique et Ald. Tzetzes Chil. III. 952.
Προυσίου ἔχοντος ὀστοῦν ἓν τοὺς ὀδόντας πάντας, ὥςπερ Αἰσχύλος ἐν γραφαῖς καὶ τὰς Φορκίδας λέγει
.

798. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-906

νύκτερος: Libri omnes
οὔθ᾽ ὁ νύκτερος
. Delevi articulum, molestum in oratione poetae.

800. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-907

δρακοντόμαλλοι:
δρακοντόμαλοι
G. aliique pauci et Ald.

800. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-908

βροτοστυγεῖς:
βροτοστυγείς
Lips.

800. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-909

Γοργόνες:
Γοργόνες
G.

802. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-910

τοιοῦτο μέν σοι τοῦτο:
τοιοῦτο
M. aliique et Rob.
τοιοῦτον
G. Vit. Lips. aliique et Ald. Nullus liber
μὰν
, ut refert de G. Vit. Ald. Butlerus, sed hi omnes
μὲν
habent, G. tamen in litura. Elmsleius, quod tragici rarissime
τοιοῦτο
et
τοσοῦτο
usurpent, scribendum putabat
τοιοῦτον ἕν σοι τοῦτο φρούριον λέγω
. Confidentius ad Oed. Col. 790.
τοιοῦτο
et
τοσοῦτο
prorsus a tragicis abiudicavit, fortasse quod, sicubi illa inveniuntur, metrum alteram formam admittat, ut in Eumen. 200. 419. Blomfieldio longe probabilius videbatur
τοιόνδε μέν σοι
. Ego quidem vulgatam scripturam servandam duxi, partim quod ille tragicorum usus vix satis stabiliri potest, partim quod sententia in illa Elmsleii coniectura non recte enuntiata videtur. Nam
ἓν
si dicitur, satis est
τοιοῦτο
aut
τοῦτο
addi, utroque autem addito alterum supervacaneum atque adeo molestum est.

804. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-911

ὀξυστόμους:
ὀξυστόμου
ante correctionem secundae manu M.

804. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-912

ἀκραγεῖς:
ἀκραγεῖς
Ven. 3. Bess. Par. H. Ald.
ἀκραγεῖς
Lips. Hesychius in codice
ἀκραγές
(Musurus ἀκραγγές),
δυςχερές, σκληρόν, ὀξύχολον, ἀσθενές
. Εtym. Μ. p. 52, 13.
ἀκραγγές, ἀσθενές, χαλεπόν, δυςχερές, σκληρόν, αὐστηρόν, καὶ τὸ ἀεὶ κλαῖον παιδίον. τά τε ἀκραγγῆ ὀξύχολα
. Sic etiam MS. Aug. Atque etiam in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 369, 17. legitur
ἄκραγγες, ἀκρόχολον, ἀσθενές, χαλεπόν
. Optima explicatio est
ἀκρόχολον
. Est enim vocabulum illud ab
ἄγη
deductum, de quo Etym. M. p. 9, 1.
ἄγη, θαῦμα, χαρά, ἀπιστία, ζῆλος. παρὰ Ἡρωδιανῷ βασκανία
. MS. Aug.
παρὰ Ἡροδ
. i. e.
παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ
(VI. 60.), ut Suidas quoque. Apertius Iovis ministri sunt aquila quae v. 1026. iecur Promethei exest, quaeque in Agamemnone v. 128. auguria dant aquilae. Hic gryphi sic appellati videntur ut Iovis voluntate ministerio auri custodiendi fungentes.

805. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-913

γρῦπας:
γύπας
G.
γρῦπας
Ven. 3. quum ceteri fere ut Μ.
γρύπας
habeant.

805. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-914

τόν τε:
τό τε
ante sec. manus correctionem M.
τόν γε
Vit.

805. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-915

μουνῶπα:
μουνῶπα
a pr. manu M. Recentior circumflexum accentum in acutum mutavit et ultimae syllabae
ον
supra adscripsit. Eustathius ad Dionysii v. 31.
Αἰσχύλος δὲ μονῶπα στρατὸν ὀνομάζει
. Idem ad Od. p. 1388, 64.
μουνῶπα στρατὸν
ex h. l. commemorat.

806. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-916

Ἀριμασπὸν:
Ἀριμασπὸν
Vit. sed a pr. manu in
Ἀριμασπὸν
mutatum.

806. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-917

ἱπποβάμον:
ἱπποβάμον'
M. a pr. manu et Vit. Lips.
ἱπποβάμους'
G.

806. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-918

οἳ χρυσόρρυτον:
οἳ χρυσόρρυτον
G.
οἱ χρυσόρρυτοι
sic Lips.

807. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-919

νᾶμα:
νᾶμα
G. et a pr. manu M.

807. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-920

Πλούτωνος:
Πλούτωνος
. Lips.

807. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-921

πόρου:
πόρον
M. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. N. Ven. 3. Vind. 3. 4. Rob. idque superscriptum in Colb. 2. Gravior est et magis Aeschylea coniunctio horum verborum,
νᾶμα πόρου
. Sic in Persis v. 231.
τῆλε πρὸς δυσμὰς ἄνακτος Ἡλίου φθινασμάτων
.

808. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-922

τηλουρὸν:
τηλουρὸν
ante recentioris manus correctionem M.

811. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-923

ὄχθας:
ὄχθας
Lips. et a pr. manu M.

811. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-924

ἕρφ':
ἕρφ'
Lips. aliique nonnulli et Ald.
ἕρφ',
adscripta explicatione
πορεύου
, G.

812. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-925

Βυβλίνων:
Βυβλίνων
M. Colb. 2. Cant. 1.

812. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-926

ὀρῶν:
ὀρῶν
G. Lips.

813. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-927

εὔποτον:
εὔποτον
, sed adscripta explicatione
γλυκύ
, Vit. Iis quae Stanleius de dulcedine aquae Nili ex Achillis Tatii IV, 18. et Spartiani Pescennio Nigro c. 7. attulit addi possunt Athenaeus p. 41. F. Eustathius p. 1499, 59.

814. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-928

τρίγωνον:
τρίγωνον
, superscripto
ον
, Vit.
τρίγωνα
Par. D. N.

816. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-929

κτίσαι:
κτῆσαι
Vit.

817. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-930

τῶν δ' εἴ τι σοι:
τῶν εἰ τι σοι
a pr. manu,
τῶν δ᾽ εἴ τι, σοι
a sec. M. Hunc versum a verbis his,
εἴ τί σοι
, et duos sequentes affert Athenaeus VIII. p. 347. C. Eustathius p. 1535, 24. commemorat
ψελλόν τι
(sic)
καὶ δυσεύρετον
. Antiatticista in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 116, 18.
ψελλός. Αἰσχύλος Προμηθεῖ. τέθεικε δὲ τὴν λέξιν ἐπὶ τοῦ σαφῶς μὴ εἰρημένου
. Sine interpretatione memoratur hoc verbum in excerptis
ἐκ τοῦ Ἀριστοφάνους τοῦ περὶ λέξεων διαλαβόντος
, quae Herodiani Epimerismis adiecit Boissonadius p. 285.

818. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-931

ἐπαναδίπλαζε:
ἐπαναδίπλαζε
G. Dindorfio placet
ἐπανδίπλαζε
.

819. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-932

NA: Hic versus ab alia manu scriptus in M.

819. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-933

ἢ θέλω:
εἰ θέλεις
G.
ἢ θέλῃς
Vit. in quo
ει
s a correctore est.
ἢ θέλεις
Οx. Bess. Ald.

820. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-934

μέν:
μέντοι
Vit. et alii nonnulli.

821. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-935

πλάνης:
πλάνης
, superscripto
γρ. τύχης
, Lips.
τύχης
Ven. 3. Par. H. K. L.

823. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-936

αἰτούμεσθα:
αἰτούμεθα
Vit. Lips. aliique et Ald.

823. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-937

που: Ad
που
in Vit. superscriptum
τι
.

823. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-938

ἥνπερ: Consentiunt libri in
ἥντιν'
, etsi id hic
ἣν
dicendum erat. Non invitus acciperem, si liber aliquis praeberet
ἣν πρὶν ᾐτούμεσθα
, quemadmodum supra v. 700.
τὴν πρίν γε χρείαν
est dictum. Sed facillimum visum est
ἥνπερ
scribere. Sic v. 610. libri
ὃ
et
ὅτι
, ubi ex Etym. a Porsono
ὅπερ
restitutum est.

826. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-939

ἐκμεμόχθηκεν: In
ἐκμεμόχθηκεν
litterae
με
a sec. manu in M.
ἐκμόχθηκε
Vit.
ἐμμεμόχθηκε
G. Ceteri
ἐκμεμόχθηκε
.

829. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-940

εἶμι:
εἰμὶ
Lips.

830. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-941

δάπεδα: Libri
δάπεδα
. Porsonus ad Euripidis Or. 324. aut produci primam syllabam aut scribendum esse
γάπεδα
animadvertit, allatis his Stephani Byzantii in
γῆ
,
λέγεται καὶ γήπεδον τὸ πρὸς τοῖς οἴκοις ἐν πόλει κηπίον, ὅπερ οἱ τραγικοὶ διὰ τοῦ α φασὶ δωρίζοντες
. Addidit Blomfieldius scholiastam ad Il. IV. 2.
δάπεδον δὲ τὸ ὁμαλὸν χωρίον· γήπεδα δὲ τὰ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι προκείμενα ταῖς οἰκίαις οἷον κηπίδια· οἰκόπεδα δὲ οἰκιῶν κατεριφεισῶν ἐδάφη
, et Eustathium p. 436, 41.
γήπεδον μέντοι τὸ ἐν πόλει προκείμενον οἰκίαις οἷον κηπίδιον
, et scholiastam Oppiani ad Hal. I. 54.
ἐκ τοῦ γῆ καὶ πέδον γήπεδον, τὸ τῆς οἰκίας πεδίον. οἰκήπεδον δὲ τὸ τῆς καταβληθείσης οἰκίας πεδίον, ἐρειποτόπιον λεγόμενον
. Tum Lycophronem v. 617.
τοῦ τειχοποιοῦ γαπέδων ἀμειβέως
, ubi libri confirmarunt hanc scripturam, restituendam Aeschylo etiam Choeph. v. 786.

831. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-942

αἰπύνωτόν τ':
αἰπύνωτόν τ'
a pr. manu M. ex quo sec. manus
αἰπύνωτόν τ'
fecit.
αἰπύνωτον δ'
Vit.

832. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-943

θᾶκός τ': Libri
θῶκος
. Correxit Brunckius.
τ'
omittit Vit. sed a glossatore
τὲ
superscriptum.

832. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-944

Θεσπρωτοῦ:
Θεσπρώτου
Lips. Strabo VII. p. 328.
Δωδώνη τοίνυν τὸ μὲν παλαιὸn ὑπὸ Θεσπρωτοῖς ἦν καὶ τὸ ὄρος ὁ Τόμαρος ἢ Τμάρος, ἀμφοτέρως γὰρ λέγεται, ὑφ᾽ ᾧ κεῖται τὸ ἱερόν· καὶ οἱ τραγικοὶ δὲ καὶ Πίνδαρος Θεσπρωτίδα εἰρήκασι τὴν Δωδώνην· ὕστερον δὲ ὑπὸ Μολοττοῖς ἐλέγετο
. Aeschylum spectasse videtur et Euripidem Phoen. v. 989.
ΚΡ. Θεσπρωτὸν οἶδας. Μ. σεμνὰ Δωδώνης βάθρα;

834. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-945

ὑφ' ὧν:
ἀφ᾽ ὧν
G. In
σὺ
posteriorem litteram, in
αἰνικτηρίως
tres primas a rec. manu refectas habet M.

835. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-946

προςηγορεύθης:
προσηγορήθης
Par. B. H. N. Ven. 3. quod Blomfieldio paullo vetustius visum est. At potestate differt. Nam
προςηγορεῖν
est blande alloqui, salutare, consolari. Apud Sophoclem El. 1470. Orestes, velatum interfectae Clytaemnestrae corpus afferens Aegistho,
οὐκ ἐμὸν τόδ', ἀλλὰ σόν, τὸ ταῦθ᾽ ὁρᾶν τε καὶ προςηγορεῖν φίλως
. Conf. Eur. Phoen. 996.
Προςαγορεύειν
, cuius perrarus apud tragicos usus est, invenitur apud Aeschylum Choeph. 938.

835. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-947

κλεινὴ:
δάμαρ κλεινὴ
Lips. sed supra
δάμαρ
iterum
κλεινὴ
scriptum.

836. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-948

μέλλουσ᾽ ἔσεσθαι, εἰ: E Turnebi editione manavit
μέλλουσ᾽ ἔσεσθ', εἰ τῶνδε προςσαίνει σέ τι
. omisso
εἰ
scriptum est
ἔσεσθαι τῶνδε
in M. G. Vit. Cantabr. 2. Par. B. D. H. K. L. N. Ven. 2. 3. Vindobonensibus omnibus et in Ald. Rob.
ἔσῃσθαι τῶνδε
Ox. Deinde
προσαίνει σέ τι
M. G. Vit. Lips. Par. E. Ven. 3.
προσαίνεις ἔτι
Colb. 1. Scholiastae quoque
εἰ
ignorant, qui haec verba,
τῶνδε προςσαίνει σέ τι
, volunt
διὰ μέσου
dicta esse. Interpretantur autem duobus modis, utroque ironia vacuo, uno quo
προςσαίνει
pro
θέλγει, ἡδύνει
dictum accipiatur, altero tali,
εἰς μνήμην ἔρχεται καὶ εὐφραίνει σε διὰ τὸ εἶναι ἀληθῶς δάμαρτα Διός
, οι
ὑπομιμνήσκει καὶ εὐφραίνει σε
Similiter apud Hesychium legitur
προσαίνουσί με, προςβάλλουσι, προςέρχονται
, quod pertinet ad
προςσαίνουσί με
in Eur. Hipp. 863. Hoc sensu si Aeschylus verbo isto usus esset, excidisse versum oporteret, quo haec pro apodosi praecedentium essent, verbi caussa
τῶνδε προςσαίνει σέ τι κλύουσαν ὀρθῶς οὐδὲν ἐξῃκασμένον;
quemadmodum locutus est in Agam. v. 1203. Interrogandi signum post
σέ τι
habet Cantabr. 1. Blomfieldius ex Arund. Cantabr. 1. Par. G. E.
ἔσεσθαι· τῶν δὲ
divisim scripsit, pathetice sumenda putans haec verba, quae sic est interpretatus, quin et hisce oraculis gratum aliquod tibi inerat. At neque significare hoc possunt ista verba, et quod
πάθος
dicit mala potius inconcinnitas eaque languidissimae sententiae est, nec melior machina quam si cum interrogatione dicatur
τῶνδε προςσαίνει σέ τι;
cuiusmodi interrogatio si mediae orationi insereretur, habere deberet particulam interrogativam, ut
μῶν σε προςσαίνει τάδε;
Νon puto dubitari posse quin
εἰ
necessarium esse recte perspexerit, quicumque fuit, qui
ἔσεσθ', εἰ τῶνδε
scripsit. Sed hoc tamen propter elisam diphthongum non videtur ferri posse. Non malam, sed audaciorem medicinam adhibuit Cantabrigiensis in Diarii classici fasc. V. p. 78.
μέλλουσ᾽ ἔσεσθαι, τῶνδέ γ' εἰ σαίνει σε τι
. Mihi aliquando emendandum videbatur, mutatione perparva,
ὑφ᾽ ὧν σὺ λαμπρῶς κοὐδὲν αἰνικτηρίως προςηγορεύθης, εἰ Διὸς κλεινὴ δάμαρ μέλλουσ᾽ ἔσεσθαι τῶνδε προςσαίνει σέ τι
. Sed abhorret id tamen a simplicitate dictionis Aeschyleae. Quare satius visum est propagatam a Turnebo lectionem ita servare ut plene scriberetur
ἔσεσθαι
cum eoque per crasin coalesceret
εἰ
. Saepissime enim librarii voculas, quae crasi non animadversa viderentur versum corrumpere, omittendas esse existimarunt. V. ad Eur. Iph. Taur. v. 667.

837. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-949

οἰστρήσασα:
οἰστρήσασα
ab
οἰστρᾶν
dictum. V. ad Eur. Iph. Aul. 77.

838. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-950

ᾖξας:
ᾖξας
Vit. et fortasse a pr. manu M. qui
ᾖξας
a sec. manu habet.

839. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-951

παλιμπλάγκτοισι:
παλιπλάκτοισι
a pr. manu M.
παλιμπλάκτοισι
idem a sec. manu et G. Vit. Par. D.
παλιπλάγκτοισι
Ven. 3.
πολυπλάκτοισι
Lips.
πολυπλάγκτοισι
Arund. Cantabr. 1. Par. K. Vindobonenses et Rob.

839. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-952

χειμάζει:
χειμάζει
pro vulgato
χειμάζῃ
Par. E.

841. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-953

κεκλήσεται:
κεκλήσεται
Vit. Lips. et ceteri plerique.
κληθήσεται
M. G. Bess. edd. vett. idemque superscriptum est in Par. B. et habet Tzetzes ad Lycophr. 630. ubi hunc versum cum praecedente affert. Ionium mare ab Inachi filia appellatum esse Aeschylo auctore praeter Tzetzam tradunt Stephanus Byz. in
Ἰόνιον πέλαγος
, Etym. Μ. p. 473, 16. Eustathius ad Dionysii v. 92. scholiastes Euripidis ad Phoen. v. 211. ed. Matth. qui sic scribit,
οἳ δέ φασιν Αἰσχύλῳ αὐτὸν ἕπεσθαι οἰομένῳ πάντα πόντον Ἰόνιον λέγεσθαι ὃν ἀλωμένη περιῆλθεν ἡ Ἰώ
. Eandem nominis originem non memorato Aeschylo alii multi prodiderunt, ut Apollodorus II. 1, 3. scholiastes Pindari ad Pyth. III. 120. Apollonii Rhodii ad IV. 308. Euripidis ad Hipp. 727. Eustathius ad Dionysii v. 389. Hyginus fab. 145.

842. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-954

πᾶσιν:
πᾶσι
Vit. Lips. edd. vett. Post hunc versum in G. tamquam alius versus legitur
Ἰόνιος ἀπὸ σοῦ μνημονεύματα τῆς σῆς πλάνης
.

843. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-955

τάδ':
σημεῖα σοι τάδ'
G.

843. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-956

ἐστὶ:
ἔστι
Μ.

846. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-957

ἐς ταὐτὸν:
ἐς ταὐτὸ
ante correctionem Vit.

847. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-958

ἔστιν:
ἔστιν
Μ.
ἔστι
G. Vit. Lips. edd. ante Vict. Afferunt hunc versum scholiastes Ambrosianus ad Od. IV. 563. VI. 204. Eustathius p. 1386, 12. 1509, 35. 1559, 60. quorum locorum in postremo
ἔστι τις πόλις
, in ceteris
ἔστι πόλις
legitur.

848. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-959

NA: Hic versus in Colb. 1. post sequentem positus est. In Vit. totus ita legitur,
Νείλου πρὸς αὐτῷ χώματι
. Inter versus adnotatum
καὶ πρὸς ἀναχωματισμῷ, ἤγουν ταῖς ὄχθαις
, et deinde in fine versus
τῷ στόματι
. Lips.
πρὸς αὐτόματι καὶ προςχώματι
.

849. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-960

ἐνταῦθα:
ταῦτα
pro
ἐνταῦθα
, superscripto ad ultimam syllabam
ν
, Lips.

849. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-961

τίθησιν:
τίθεισιν
, superscripto a sec. manu
η
, Μ.

851. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-962

χειρὶ: Libri
χειρὶ
, nisi quod M. a sec. manu gravem accentum habet.

851. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-963

ἀταρβεῖ:
ἀταρβεῖ
scholia explicant
ἀφοβοποιῷ
, similiterque Blomfieldius nullum metum incutiente, placido, comparans Moschi versus II. 50.
ἐν δ᾽ ἦν Ζεὺς Κρονίδης, ἐπαφώμενος ἠρέμα χερσὶν πόρτιος Ἰναχίης, τὴν ἑπταπόρῳ παρὰ Νείλῳ ἐκ βοὺς εὐκεράοιο πάλιν μετάμειβε γυναῖκα
. Non credam isto significatu hoc vocabulum dictum esse, qui ne aptus quidem hic est, quum non sit quare metuendam sibi manum eius a quo amatur putet Io: sed est epitheton ornans, potentiam Iovis significandi caussa positum.

851. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-964

θιγὼν:
θιγὼν
M. Rob. Ceteri
θίγων
.

852. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-965

γεννημάτων: Omnes libri
γεννημάτων
, nisi quod M. a pr. manu et Lips.
γεννημάτων
. Miror Valckenario placuisse quod ad Phoen. 639. refert Scaligerum ex Peyraredi coniectura in libri sui margine adscripsisse,
θιγημάτων
. Nam quod affert ex Hesychio,
θιγημάτων, μιασμάτων
, id alio spectare apertum est, et ne scriptum quidem sic est apud Hesychium, sed, uti debebat,
θιγμάτων
. Tanta tamen fuit auctoritas Valckenarii, ut huic probatum verbum analogiae contrarium reciperent Brunckius et Schützius. Nihil prodesse puto tali coniecturae defendendae hoc scholion codicis Vit.
ἐνταῦθα ὁ Ζεὺς πάλιν ποιήσει ἄνθρωπον, ἀφόβῳ χειρὶ ἐφαψάμενός σου· τέξεις δὲ καὶ παῖδα Ἔπαφον ὀνομαζόμενον, ἐπώνυμον τῆς ἐπαφήσεως τῆς Διός
. Sensum enim eo scholio, non verba singula reddi alia scholia ostendunt. At, inquiunt Valckenarius et Brunckius, absurdum est
γεννημάτων
. Fateor ita videri posse, quum non praecedat quo referatur hoc vocabulum: quod recte se haberet, si
ἔγκυον
pro
ἔμφρονα
dixisset. At non multo minus absurdum esset, si ferri posset,
θιγημάτων
. Nam si sanam mentem contactu suo restituit virgini, quis inde colligat etiam gravidam eo contactu factam esse? Inde mihi olim nata est suspicio, in quam postea vidi etiam Elmsleium incidisse, deesse hic versum post
ἔμφρονα
, praesertim quum
μόνον
, si ad
τίθησιν ἔμφρονα
referatur, plane sit inutile, quia mentis compotem Iuppiter etiam nutu et sola voluntate sua reddere poterat. Nam alia minus probabilis est Elmsleii coniectura, haec verba,
ἐπαφῶν ἀταρβεῖ χειρὶ καὶ θιγὼν μόνον
, ex adnotatione in textum venisse: quae verba neque interpretem produnt, et ad intelligentiam rei sunt necessaria. Itaque omissi versus signa ante hunc versum posui. Recte enim iam omnia procedent, si tale quid scriptum fuisse statuamus,
παύσας τε μόχθων τῶνδε φιτύσει γόνον
. Vereor enim ne nimiae negligentiae reum faciat Aeschylum, qui quasi res nota fuerit omnibus omisisse eum credat mentionem graviditatis afferatque contraria ratione non dissimiles versus ex Supplicibus 298-300.
ΧΟ. καὶ Ζεύς γ᾽ ἐφάπτωρ χειρὶ φιτύει γόνον. ΒΑ. τίς οὖν ὁ Δῖος πόρτις εὔχεται βοός;
ΧΟ. Ἔπαφος, ἀληθῶς ῥυσίων ἐπώνυμος·
quod ut illic
ῥύσια
dicuntur, etsi nihil praecessit quo id vocabulum referatur, sic hic dictum sit
γεννημάτων
. At multo tamen facilius ex eo, quod potitus virgine Iuppiter tangendo ex ea prolem genuit, servatam esse, quam genuisse eum prolem ex eo, quod mentis compotem reddiderit, potest intelligi.

853. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-966

τέξεις κελαινὸν Ἔπαφον:
τέξει κελαινὸν Ἔπαφ'
Lips.

855. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-967

γέννα:
γένα
G.

855. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-968

πεντηκοντάπαις:
πεντηκοντάπαις
G. Coll. 2. Cantabr. 1. Ven. 3. Bess. Ald. Turn. Ceteri
πεντηκοντόπαις
, ut Eustathius p. 37, 32. Atticam formam Blomfieldius recepit.

857. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-969

θηλύσπορος:
θηλύσπορος
Μ.
θηλύπορος
Lips.
θηλύσπορον
G. Ald.

858. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-970

ἐπτοημένοι:
ἐπτωημένοι
G.
ἐπτούμενοι
Lips.

859. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-971

NA: Suppl. 210.
ἐν ἁγνῷ δ᾽ ἑσμὸς ὡς πελειάδων ἵζεσθε κίρκων τῶν ὁμοπτέρων φόβῳ, ἐχθρῶς ὅμαιμον καταμιαινόντων γένος
.

860. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-972

θηρεύσοντες:
θηρεύοντες
Vit. Colb. 1.

861. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-973

φθόνον:
φθόνον
Lips. Par. E.

864. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-974

δαμέντων:
δαμέντα
Cantabr. 1.

861-864. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-975

Vulgo hi versus sic scripti leguntur,
φθόνον δὲ σωμάτων ἕξει θεός· Πελασγία δὲ δέξεται θηλυκτόνῳ Ἄρει δαμέντων νυκτιφρουρήτῳ θράσει
. Quae quum intellectum esset non admittere aptam explicationem, Brunckius temere scripsit
φθόνον δὲ σώμαθ' ὧν ἕξει θεός, Πελασγία δὲ δέξεται θηλυκτόνῳ Ἄρει δαμέντων
. Heynius ad Apollodorum p. 273. (108. ed. sec.) aut
σώματα
de puellis, quarum fructum deus maritis invideat, dici, et deinde
δαμέντας
legi debere, aut procorum corpora fato subducenda significari censebat. Siebelis in diatriba de Aeschyli Persis p. 118. nihil mutandum ratus sic vertit, Aegypti filii Danaidum venabuntur nuptias, sed illarum deus invidebit corpora (non committet ut iis potiantur), ipsorum vero (Aegypti filiorum) a feminis caesorum corpora terra leget Pelasgica. Horum quidem nihil admitti posse apertum est. Blomfieldius
δαμέντας
edidit, Boissonadius
δαμέντα
, hanc Medicei libri scripturam esse falso dicens (habet enim ille quoque liber
δαμέντων
) deumque putans ob caesa corpora invidiam facere dici. Ne haec quidem habent quo cuiquam possint probanda videri. Illud vero mirere, quod qui
δαμέντας
vel
δαμέντα
scripserunt, non
δέξεται
mutarunt in
δέρξεται
, quo sententiam saltem aptam effecissent. Verba qui explicari satis ducit, acquiescere poterit in Wellaueri sententia, qui nihil mutans ad
δέξεται
intelligendum putabat
αὐτάς
ex praegresso
σωμάτων
, et
δαμέντων
genitivum absolutum esse volebat, hoc sensu, deus ipsis corpora puellarum invidebit, easque Pelasgia excipiet, interfectis illis ferro muliebri. Et illud quidem non potest dubium esse,
φθόνον σωμάτων ἕξει θεός
de virginum dictum esse corporibus, quorum potiri non permissurus sit deus Aegypti filiis: nec minus certum est
Πελασγία δὲ δέξεται
ad Danaides referri: absurdum est enim de corporibus Aegyptiadum receptis sepultisque cogitare, nec quidquam perversius quam
δαμέντας
, Pauwii inventum, aut
δαμέντα
inferri potuit. Sed
δαμέντων
si tum additum est genitivo absoluto, perobscura est ista brevitas orationis, omissa utraque et virginum et sponsorum nominatione. Quo efficitur ut vix dubitari possit quin aliquid exciderit ante
θηλυκτόνῳ
. Credibile est huiusmodi quid dictum fuisse,
Πελασγία δὲ δέξεται τὸν ἐγγενῆ στόλον γυναικῶν, νυμφίων θηλυκτόνῳ Ἄρει δαμέντων νυκτιφρουρήτῳ θράσει
. Similem in mediis versibus omissionem supra ad v. 753. ex Vit. adnotavimus.

867. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-976

ἐπ' ἐχθροὺς:
ἐς ἐχθροὺς
M. (si recte ex M. adnotatum) Vit. aliique et Rob.
ἐπ' ἐχθροὺς
G. Lips. Ald. Turn. adscriptumque in Par. B. Blomfieldius quum praelaturum fortasse aliquem
ἐς
putavit, quia melius intrare amor quam contra ire diceretur, non cogitavit id hic non esse melius, ubi illud ipsum contra ire necessario est intelligendum: de quo significatui praepositionis citavit Valckenarium ad Phoen. 79.
Εἰς
quum pro
ἐπί
dici putatur, ut in Euripidis Or. 1010.
τὰ πανύστατα δ᾽ εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ γενέταν ἐμὸν νεῖμαι
, vis praepositionis est ea, ut pervenire aliquid aliquo, non ut tendere ad perveniendum, quod est in
ἐπί
, significetur. Hic etsi utrumvis dici potuit, aptius tamen videtur
ἐπί
, praesertim quum de connubio olim Iovi periculoso sit accipiendum.

868. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-977

ἵμερος:
ἵμερον
Lips.

869. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-978

ἀπαμβλυνθήσεται:
ἀπαμβλυνθήσεται
Par. D. E. Ald. Turn.
ἀπαμβλυθήσεται
M. Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. B. Bess.
ἀπαμβληθήσεται
G.
ἐπαμβλυνθήσεται
Vit.
ἐπαμβληθήσεται
Rob. et adscriptum in Par. B.

870. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-979

γνώμην· δυοῖν δὲ:
γνώμην. δυοῖν (δυεῖν Μ.) δὲ
M. Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. C. E. F. N.
γνώμαιν δὲ δυοῖν
G.
γνώμαιν (vel γνωμαῖν) δυοῖν δὲ
Par. A. B. D. H. Rob.
γνώμων (γνωμῶν· Turn.) δυοῖν δὲ
Ald. Turn.
γνώμοιν δυοῖν
, omisso
δέ
, Vit.

871. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-980

ἄναλκις:
ἄναλκις
Par. A. C. et superscriptum in B.

872. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-981

αὕτη:
αἳ
G. Ox. Bess. Ald.

873. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-982

μακροῦ λόγου δὲ: Vulgo
μακροῦ λόγου δεῖ ταῦτ᾽ ἐπεξελθεῖν τορῶς
, et sic M. Vit. Lips. ceterique plerique codices et Ald. Turn.
δεῖ ταῦτ' ἐξελθεῖν
Rob.
ταῦτα ἐξελθεῖν
Par. N.
ταῦτά τ᾽ ἐξελθεῖν
G. Mosc. 2. In
δεῖ
consentiunt libri praeter Ox. in quo
δὴ
est. Non est credibile sic haec sine coniunctione superioribus esse addita. Quare recipiendum duxi quod Schützius coniecit
δὲ
pro
δεῖ
. Et confirmatur hoc glossa codicis G.
πάρεστι
, etsi hic quoque codex
δεῖ
habet. Neque
δεῖ
habuerunt scholiastae, qui in explicatione verborum adhibuerint
ἐστίν
et
εἴη ἄν
.

874. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-983

ἐκ τῆσδε:
ἐκ τῶνδε
Par. Β. (sed hic adscripto
ἐκ τῆσδε
) Ox. Ven. 1.
καὶ τῶνδε
G.

875. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-984

τόξοισι κλεινός:
τόξοισι κλεινοῖς
M. Rob. Ceteri
τόξοισι κλεινός
. Quem poeta extollere hic debebat Herculem, ut cuius memorandi caussa quae praecedunt omnia dixerat, eius significatione bene videbat mirifice commoveri audientium animos debere, si diceret
θρασύς, τόξοισι κλεινός
, prae quo misere languet
θρασὺς τόξοισι κλεινοῖς
, nec languore careret, si diceretur
θρασύς τις, τόξοισι κλεινός
.

875. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-985

ὃς πόνων ἐκ τῶνδ' ἐμὲ:
ὃς πόνων ἐκ τῶνδ' ἐμὲ
Μ. G. Vit. Lips. edd. vett. Alii codices
ὃς τῶνδ᾽ ἐκ πόνων ἐμὲ
, vel
ὃς ἐκ πόνων τῶνδέ με
, vel
ὃς ἐκ πόνων τῶν ἐμὲ
, vel
ὃς πόνων τῶν ἐμέ
.

876. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-986

χρησμὸν:
χρησμὸν
littera
η
a sec. manu M.

877. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-987

ἐμοὶ:
ἐμὴ
Vit. Cantabr. 1. 2. Ox. Par. K. Ven. 3. Bess. et ex corr. G. in quo prius
ἐμοὶ
fuerat.
οι
superscriptum in Colb. 2.
ἐμοὶ
M. Lips. aliique codices et edd. vett.

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θεῶν: In fine versus libri omnes
Θέμις
, praeter G. in quo est
θεῶν
, superscripto
Θέμις
ut ex interpretatione. In Vit. ad
Θέμις
adscripta interpretatio
ἡ γῆ
. Hae glossae, simulque
παλαιγενής
epitheton, quod ineptum esset si de Promethei matre diceretur, genuinam esse produnt codicis Guelferbytani scripturam, interpretes autem ex v. 211. seqq. quae esset illa deorum mater explicaturos in diversa discessisse, aliis Tellurem, aliis Themidem dici putantibus. Itaque hunc sum librum secutus.

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ὅπως δὲ χὤπῃ:
ὅπως δ᾽ ἔχω πῇ
Lips. Codex Vit. habuerat
πῶς δ᾽ ἔχω. ποῖ
, cum hac glossa,
ᾧτινι τρόπῳ ἔξω ποῦ
, quod
ποῦ
ab eadem manu in
πότε
mutatum, in textu autem correctum primum verbum in
ὅπως
, deinde ad
γρ
supra apposita signa quibus fieret
ὅπῃ
.

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δεῖ:
δὲ
pro
δεῖ
Lips. Alii nonnulli
δή
.

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λόγου:
χρόνου
G. Lips. aliique et Ald. Rob. Turn.
λόγου
M. Vit. Par. F. Hoc praetuli. Apte comparavit Stephanus Pers. 714.
πάντα γάρ, Δαρεῖε, ἀκούσει μῦθον ἐν βραχεῖ λόγῳ
. Quamquam ibi quoque pars librorum
χρόνῳ
habet.

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σύ τ':
σὺ δ'
Vit. Colb. 1. Ceteri, opinor, omnes ut M. G. Lips. edd. vett.
σύ τ'
, aptius his leviter et segnius adiectis.

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ἐλελεῦ, ἐλελεῦ:
ἐλελελελελεῦ
M. G. Lips. Turn.
ἐλελελελελελεῦ
septem syllabis Cantabr. 1. Quinque syllabis Ald. Sic etiam Rob. sed
ἰὼ. ἰὼ.
praemittens.
ἰω, ἰω, ἔλε, ἔλε, ἔλε, λε λεῦ
Par. E. Codex Vit. in quo quod praecedit
i
nomen Io est, sic,
έλε λε λε ἐλε λελεῦ
, octo syllabis, quarum quinta et sexta minoribus litteris in vacuo spatio insertae. Hesychius
ἐλελεῦ, ἐπιφώνημα πολεμικόν. οἳ δέ, προαναφώνησις παιανισμοῦ. τίθησι δὲ αὐτὸ Αἰσχύλος ἐπὶ σχετλιασμοῦ ἐν Προμηθεῖ δεσμώτῃ
. Emendavit Pauwius
ἐλελεῦ, ἐλελεῦ
.

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φρενοπληγεῖς:
φρενοβλαβεῖς
G. Lips. Bess. aliique nonnulli.

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ἄρδις:
ἄρσις
G. Hesychius
ἄρδις, ἀκίς. Αἰσχύλος Προμηθεῖ δεσμώτῃ
.

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ἄπυρος:
ἄπειρος
G. Par. E. F. Dictum est
ἄπυρος
ut in Choeph. 487.
πέδαις δ᾽ ἀχαλκεύτοις ἐθηρεύθης, πάτερ
.

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κραδία:
καρδία
M. G. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 2. Par. E. Bess. Ceteri
κραδία
.

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φόβῳ φρένα λακτίζει:
φρένα φόβῳ λακτίζει
Vit. aliique nonnulli et Ald.
φόβῳ λακτίζει φρένα
Rob.

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ὄμμαθ' ἑλίγδην:
ὄμματ' ἐλίγδην
Lips.

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ἀκρατής:
ἀκρατοὺς
Vit. Lips. sed in Vit.
ής
superscriptum.

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παίουσ':
πταίουσ'
Par. L.
παύουσ'
Par. Κ.
παίουσιν
G.
παίουσ'
etiam M. habere videtur. Hoc dicit, perturbala dicta mea illiduntur (h. e. luctantur) diri fluctibus fati.

English commentary on Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (N. Wecklein, translated by F. D. Allen. Ginn & Company, 1893; compared with the 1891 printing. Printed commentary pages 31–144. Provisional alignment and unresolved OCR are visibly flagged.) focus

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561-886. Third Episode. Io and Prometheus. The myth of Io is connected with that of Prometheus by the person of Heracles, the libera- tor of Prometheus, who is descended from paphus, the son of Zeus and Io (see on 774). The appearance of Io therefore prepares the way for the introduction of Heracles in the Προ- μηθεὺς λυόμενος. But the immediate significance of this scene consists in the present relation of Zeus and Io. Io appears as innocent and yet perse- cuted; her sufferings, superficially considered, put Zeus in the worst possible light. Accordingly the in- dignation of Prometheus rises more and more, till at last, carried away by passion, he vaunts his secret in such terms that the interposition of Zeus becomes inevitable. So the transition to the catastrophe is pre- pared. The geographical part of this episode, with its description of marvels, like the scene of Heracles in the Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος (see below, Frg. VII. and VIII.), doubtless had a peculiar charm for the Athenians of the period. On the origin of the myth of Io, see Introd. p. 9, footnote. Io appears as a horned maiden (588, 674; so indi- cated by her mask). In early Greek art, especially in vase-paintings, she has the figure of a cow outright. On the throne of the Amyclaean Apollo, a work of the sculptor Bathycles (about Ol. 60), Hera was represented as glaring at Io, 'who is already a cow' (Paus. iii. 18. 7). On an archaic black-figured vase of the Munich collection (No. 573; see Panofka, Argos Panoptes, plate 5), Argus is seen, seated on the ground, a fero- cious figure with long hair and beard, and a huge eye in his shaggy breast; he holds in his hand a long cord, attached to the horns of a cow. Near by stands Hermes, grasping the cord near the horns with his left hand, and about to draw his sword with his right. Argus's dog
stands at bay in front of his master. Through the influence of this trag- edy, Io came later to be depicted in art as a maiden with horns. So, for instance, on a red-figured vase of the Berlin Museum (Panofka, l.c., plate 3). The stinging gadfly' of the legend (cp. Suppl. 306 BΑ. τί οὖν ἔτευξεν ἄλλο δυσπότμῳ βοΐ; ΧΟ. βοη- λάτην μύωπα κινητήριον, Verg. Georg. iii. 147 cui nomen asilo Ro- manum est, oestrum Graii vertere vocantes), which is mentioned in Io's narrative, 675 be- low, had also to be omitted in the scenic representation. The difficulty was met by a figurative conception of οἶστρος; the maddening sting was interpreted as the reminiscence of the crafty eye of Argos (567). — On account of the unusual manner of Io's entrance and exit, the anapaests which commonly accompany the ar- rival and departure of a personage are here and at 877 given to the actor, not to the chorus. So above, at the entrance of the chorus (120 ff.).

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610. Cp. Suppl. 464 αἰνιγματῶδες τοὔπος· ἀλλ᾽ ἁπλῶς φράσον, and 949 below.

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612. πυρὸς βροτοῖς δοτήρα: on the dative with personal verbal substan- tives see Krüger I. § 48, 12, 5, and on 501.- This verse, though lacking the regular caesura, is not divided in the middle, because δοτῆρ' and ὁρᾷs are closely connected by elision. Cp. 710 and see note on 640.

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613. The stichomythy is intro- duced by a speech of two verses (see on 38), and at 622 below the transi- tion to a new topic is similarly marked.

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615. ἁρμοῖ: ἀρτίως, Hesych. Ac- cording to Heraclides (Eustath. on Iliad p. 140, 13), a Syracusan word. Cp. Soph. Ai. 787 τί μ᾽ αὖ τάλαιναν ἀρτίως πεπαυμένην κακῶν ἀτρύτων ἐξ ἕδρας ἀνίστατε; Eur. Frg. 337 τί μ᾽, ὦ ξέν᾽, ἄρτι πημάτων λελησμένην ὀρθοῖς;

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621. τοσοῦτον κτέ.: διὰ τὸ μὴ ταυ- τολογῆσαι, Schol. · ἀρκῶ σαφηνίσας: for the supplementary participle with ἀρκῶ, see GMT. 899.

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625 f. μή τοι: ' τοι non concluden- dae rationi, sed asseverando hortan- doque inservit' (Hermann). Ср. 436 above, Soph. Ant. 544 μή τοι κασιγνήτη μ᾽ ἀτιμήσῃς τὸ μὴ οὐ θανεῖν, Ο. С. 1407 μή τοί με πρὸς θεῶν σφώ γε... μή μ' ἀτιμήσητέ γε, 1439 μή τοι μ᾽ ὀδύρου. – μεγαίρω : an epic word.

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627. μὴ οὐ: cp. Soph. Ai. 540 τί δῆτα μέλλει μὴ οὐ παρουσίαν ἔχειν; and 1056 below. Krüger II. § 67, 12, 4; GMT. 817. - γεγωνίσκειν : poetic pres- ent to γέγωνα, recurs Thuc. vii. 76.

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18
628. θράξαι: ταράξαι, λυπῆσαι, Εὐρι- πίδης Πειρίθῳ, Hesych. Cp. Bekker's Anecd. 352, 16 ἄθρακτος, ἀτάραχος. καὶ τὸ συνεχύθη ἐθράχθη Σοφοκλῆς λέγει. Eur. Rhes. 863 δέδοικα δ᾽ αὐτὸν καί τί μου θράσσει φρένας. The tenuis, in the shortened form, changes to aspirate from the influence of the following liquid, as in φροίμιον (προ-οίμιον), φροῦδος (πρό-οδος), φρουρός (πρό-ορος), etc. See Curtius Etymol.5 p. 501. 5

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629. μᾶσσον ὡς : = μᾶσσον ἤ. So in German wie instead of als after com- paratives. Cp. 11. iv. 277 μελάντερον ἠΰτε πίσσα, Xenophanes in Athen. xii. 526 b οὐ μείους ὥσπερ χίλιοι εἰς ἐπίπαν, Dios in Stob. Flor. 65, 16 τούτως γάρ, ὡς ἑνί, μασσότερον οἱ πλεῦνες ὡς θεὼς ἢ θεῶν ἱδρύματα ὑποτρέχοντι καὶ θεραπεύ- οντι, Lys. VII. 12 ἡγούμενος μᾶλλον λέγεσθαι ὥς μοι προσῆκε, VII. 31 ἅπαντα προθυμότερον πεποίηκα ὡς ὑπὸ τῆς πό- λεως ἠναγκαζόμην, Dem. xxv. 53 τοῦ- τον οὐ τιμωρήσεσθε ἀλλὰ καὶ μειζόνων ἀξιώσαντες δωρεῶν ἀφήσετε ὡς τοὺς εὐεργέτας. – προκήδου : contains an allusion to the name Προμηθεύς.

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22
630. ἐπεὶ προθυμεῖ: cp. 786.

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24
631. μήπω γε: the relation of Io's adventures, beginning at this point, is in three parts. First comes Io's own narrative, given at request of the chorus; secondly, Prometheus, at Io's request, foretells her future destiny; and thirdly, he describes her previous wanderings, in order to convince her of his knowledge of the future. The second part is further divided into two distinct portions - wanderings in Europe (700-741), and wanderings in Asia and Africa (786-- 818). These are separated by a di- gression, but interest in the continu- ance of the narrative is ensured by 740 f. Thus by variety of motive, and by frequent hints of what is to come, the poet keeps the spectators' attention (see on 283) and gives his material an effective dramatic form.

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26
632 f. νόσον: cp. 596 and see note on 249. νόσον and τὰς πολυφθόρους τύ xas stand in connexion; "let us hear what fatal misfortunes have brought her to this distressful state."

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634. τὰ λοιπὰ ἄθλων : cp. 780, 684; Soph. Phil. 24 τἀπίλοιπα τῶν λόγων.

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30
635. ὑπουργῆσαι χάριν: like χαρί- ζεσθαι χάριν. Cp. Eur. Alc. 842 ᾿Αδμήτω ὑπουργῆσαι χάριν, Soph. Frg. 313 ἀνθ- υπουργῆσαι χάριν.

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32
636. ἄλλως τε πάντως καί : cp. Pers. 688 ἐστὶ δ᾽ οὐκ εὐέξοδον, ἄλλως τε πάν- τως χοὶ κατὰ χθονὸς θεοὶ λαβεῖν ἀμεί-
νους εἰσὶν ἢ μεθιέναι (here an indepen- dent clause follows), Eum. 726 ἄλλως τε πάντως χώτε δεόμενος τύχοι. Α temporal or conditional clause, or a participle, is the usual construction after ἄλλως καί. – κασιγνήταις πατρός: cp. Hesiod Theog. 337 Τηθὺς δ᾽ ᾿Ὠκεανῷ Ποταμοὺς τέκε δινήεντας. TE

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637. Cp. Eur. Frg. 567 σχολὴ μὲν οὐχί, τῷ δὲ δυστυχοῦντί πως τερπνὸν τὸ λέξαι κἀποκλαύσασθαι πάλιν.

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638. μέλλοι: optative of a purely imaginary case. Cp. Soph. Ant. 666 ὃν πόλις στήσειε, τοῦδε χρὴ κλύειν, Ο. Τ. 314 ἄνδρα δ᾽ ὠφελεῖν, ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἔχοι τε καὶ δύναιτο, κάλλιστος πόνος, 979 εἰκῇ κράτιστον ζῆν ὅπως δύναιτό τις, Thuc. i. 120 ἀνδρῶν γὰρ σωφρόνων μέν ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ ἀδικοῖντο, ἡσυχάζειν. Krüger I. § 54, 14, 4.

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639. ἀξίαν τριβὴν ἔχει : = ἀξίαν (substantive) τῆς τριβῆς ἔχει. Cp. Eur. Med. 1124 τί δ᾽ ἄξιόν μοι τῆσδε τυγχάνει φυγῆς;

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640. Verses lacking the usual cae- sura, and dividing themselves into two halves, are not frequent in Aes- chylus. The greatest number (seven) occurs in the Persians. In this place the ill effect is somewhat relieved by a pause after οὐκ οἶδ᾽. – ἀπιστῆσαι; disobey. Cp. Sept. 1030 ἔχουσ᾽ ἄπιστον τήνδ᾽ ἀναρχίαν πόλει, Soph. Ant. 381 οὐ δή που σε γ᾽ ἀπιστοῦσαν τοῖς βασι- λείοισιν ἄγουσι νόμοις, Eur. Suppl. 389 ἦν δ᾽ ἀπιστῶσ᾽, οἵδε δεύτεροι λόγοι.

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642. καὶ λέγουσ᾽ ὀδύρομαι : "the bare recital costs me tears." Ср. 197; Eur. Hec. 519 νῦν τε γὰρ λέγων κακὰ τέγξω τόδ᾽ ὄμμα, πρὸς τάφῳ θ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἄλλυτο, Verg. Aen. ii. 6 quis talia fando...temperet a lacri- mis?

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644. Cp. Soph. Αi. 282 τίς γάρ ποτ' ἀρχὴ τοῦ κακοῦ προσέπτατο; Eur. Alc. 420 οὐκ ἄφνω κακὸν τόδε προσέπτατο.

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647. μέγ᾿ εὔδαιμον: cp. Χen. Cyr. ν. 1,28 μέγα εὐδαίμονας γενέσθαι, Suppl. 141 σεμνᾶς μέγα ματρός, Eur. Or. 1691 ὦ μέγα σεμνὴ Νίκη, and 1004 below. Also μέγ᾽ ἔξοχος, μέγα νήπιος in Homer and Hesiod. Krüger II. § 46, 6, 7.

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648. Enclitics form, as it were, one word with the preceding; the long thesis of the fifth foot is therefore not a blemish, especially after the phthehemimeral caesura. See on 107.

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50
649 f. ἱμέρου βέλει : = ἔρωτι (591). In an inverse relation τόξευμα is used in Suppl. 1003 καὶ παρθένων χλιδαῖσιν εὐμόρφοις ἔπι πᾶς τις παρελθὼν ὄμματος θελκτήριον τόξευμ᾽ ἔπεμψεν ἱμέρου νικώ- μενος. - τέθαλπται: cp. Soph. Ant. 1085 ἀφῆκα καρδίας τοξεύματα βέβαια τῶν σὺ θάλπος οὐκ ὑπεκδραμεῖ. θάλ- πος is said both of the smart of wounds and the fire of love (590). συναίρεσθαι Κύπριν: συνουσιάσαι, Schol.

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651. Crasis of μὴ ἀ- is frequent. Cho. 918, Eum. 85 f., 694, 749, Suppl. 209. – ἀπολακτίσῃς: ὡς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλό- γων ζῴων, Schol. The coarse expres- sion is purposely chosen, for intimi- dation.

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652. βαθὺν λειμώνα : grassy meadow, i.e. with thick, deep herbage. Cp. Od. ix. 134 μάλα κὲν βαθὺ λήιον αἰεὶ εἰς ὥρας ἀμῷεν, ἐπεὶ μάλα πῖαρ ὑπ᾽ οὐδας, ΙΙ. ii. 147 ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε κινήσῃ Ζέφυρος βαθὺ λήιον ἐλθών, ix. 151 ῎Ανθειαν βαθύλει- μον, Eur. Hipp. 1138 βαθεῖαν ἀνὰ χλόαν.

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657. Cp. Cho. 523 ἐκ τ᾽ ὀνειράτων καὶ νυκτιπλάγκτων δειμάτων πεπαλμένη.

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60
658 f. ἐπὶ Δωδώνης: towards Do- dona. ἐπί with gen. of general direc- tion or end in view, frequent in Homer (cp. Il. iii. 5) and Herodotus (cp. i. 1). With our passage cp. Eur. El. 1343 στεῖχ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ᾿Αθηνῶν, Thuc. i. 63 ὁποτέρωσε διακινδυνεύσει χωρήσας ἢ ἐπὶ τῆς Ὀλύνθου ἢ ἐς τὴν Ποτίδαιαν. G. 191, VI. 2, 1a; H. 799, 1, 6. – ἴαλλεν: an epic word.

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660. τί δρῶντ᾽ ἢ λέγοντα: this par- ticularization is a favorite one in Greek. Cp. the Homeric ἡ ἔπει ἢ ἔργῳ, ΙΙ. 1. 504. Especially appro-
priate in anxious inquiry of an ora- cle; cp. Soph. Ο. Τ. 70 ἐς τὰ Πυθικὰ ἔπεμψα Φοίβου δώμαθ᾽, ὡς πύθοιθ᾽, ὅ τι δρῶν ἢ τί φωνῶν τήνδε ῥυσαίμην πόλιν. Cp. also Cho. 316 τί σοι φάμενος ἢ τί ῥέξας, Pers. 174 μήτ᾽ ἔπος μήτ᾽ ἔργον, Eur. Hec. 372 μηδὲν ἐμποδὼν γένῃ λέγουσα μηδὲ δρῶσα, Phoen. 878 τί οὐ δρῶν, ποῖα δ᾽ οὐ λέγων ἔπη. – πράσ- σειν φίλα : = ἦρα φέρειν, χαρίζεσθαι. πράσσειν covers both δρᾶν and λέ- γειν.

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64
662. Synonymorum coacervatio non modo rem ipsam, scilicet ambigui- tatem oraculorum, auget atque exag- gerat, sed etiam commotum Ius animum ostendit' (Schütz). So below ἐναργὴς ... σαφῶς ἐπισκήπτουσα καὶ μυθουμένη.

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671. ἄκουσαν ἄκων: see on 19. - ἀλλ᾽ ἐπηνάγκαζε: refers to the notion contained in άκων. Cp. Eum. 458 ἔφθιθ᾽ οὗτος οὐ καλῶς, μολὼν ἐς οἶκον· ἀλλά νιν κελαινόφρων ἐμὴ μήτηρ και τέκτα, Eur. Bacch. 1127 ἀπεσπάραξεν ὦμον οὐχ ὑπὸ σθένους, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ θεὸς εὐμά- ρειαν ἐπεδίδου χεροῖν.

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672. Διὸς χαλινός : cp. Ag. 133 στόμιον μέγα Τροίας, 218 ἀνάγκης λέ- παδνον. – πρὸς βίαν: nearly like βίᾳ φρενῶν (Sept. 612), with inner reluc- tance.

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673. The poet here omits certain details, which are related Suppl. 291 ff. The maid Io touches on external
facts only; she passes over the rea- sons of her persecution. A hint of these has been given by Prometheus at 592. – φρένες διάστροφοι: cp. Soph. Αἱ. 447 ὄμμα καὶ φρένες διάστροφοι.

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674 f. ὀξυστόμῳ μύωπι : see on 561, and cp. Schol. Apollon. Rhod. Arg. i. 1265 μύωψ εἶδος μυίας κατὰ τὸ ἔαρ γινό- μενον, ἥτις ταῖς λαγόσι τῶν βοῶν ἐπι- καθεζομένη δάκνει αὐτὰς καὶ εἰς μανίαν ἄγει· ἀφ᾽ οὗ καὶ οἶστρος λέγεται. Σώ- στρατος δὲ ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ περὶ ζῴων διαστέλλει τὸν μύωπα τοῦ οἴστρου· ὁ μὲν γὰρ μύωψ ἐκ τῶν ξύλων ἀπογεννᾶ- ται, ὁ δὲ οἶστρος ἐκ τῶν ἐν τοῖς ποταμοῖς ἐπιπλεόντων σκωρίων. But Suppl. 307 βοηλάτην μύωπα κινητήριον· οἶστρον κα- λοῦσιν αὐτὸν οἱ Νείλου πέλας. Cp. Plin. H. N. xi. 28, 34, 100 pinnae in- sectis omnibus sine scissura, nulli cauda nisi scorpioni; ...reliquorum quibusdam aculeus in ore ut asilo, sive tabanum dici placet.

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676. εὔποτον: cp. 812. 'The Greeks in general were so little prone to de- scriptive poetry that we cannot but wonder at the inexhaustible wealth of expression with which their poets describe the blessings of flowing water. It is surprising how carefully they inquired into its properties, and how they compared the waters of distant regions, distinguishing their temperature, taste, color, weight, and - their effect on the human body in drinking and bathing' (Ernst Curtius in Griechische Quell- und Brunnenin- schriften). – Κερχνείας ῥέος : Κέρχνη κρήνη ῎Αργους, Schol. According to Pausanias ii. 24, 7, the small town Κεγχρεαί (the later form of the name) lay on the route from Argos to Tegea. Not far away, near the coast, was the marshy lake of Lerna, renowned in the myth of Heracles. Cp. Pau- san. ii. 36, 6. 'The mountain-ridge Pontinus pushes out so close to the sea that the waters welling up at its base have not space to form a river- bed. It is these springs which pro- duce the Lernaean swamp.... Lerna itself was never a town; the name designates either the chief fountain, or the lake, or the whole coast-region' (E. Curtius, Peloponnesos II. pp. 340, 371).

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680. Here, too, the poet skilfully passes over details (see on 571). ἀπροσδόκητος, ἀφνίδιος: joined as in Thuc. ii. 61 δουλοῖ γὰρ φρόνημα τὸ αἰφνίδιον καὶ ἀπροσδόκητον καὶ τὸ πλεί- στῳ παραλόγῳ συμβαίνον. The form ἀφνίδιος is from ἄφνω. For the reso- lution, see on 2. The caesura is to be made after αὐτόν, not after ἀπροσ- δόκητος δ᾽.

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681. οἰστροπλήξ: cp. Soph. El. 5 τῆς οἰστροπλῆγος ἄλσος Ἰνάχου κόρης. Whips were sometimes armed with sharp points, to serve as goads (cp. on 691); so the expression οἰστροπλὴξ μάστιγι is especially fitting.

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682. γῆν πρὸ γῆς: cp. Ar. Ach. 235 διώκειν γῆν πρὸ γῆς. Also the phrases γῆν πρὸ γῆς ἀπιέναι, ἴτω χαιρέτω γῆν πρὸ γῆς ὅποι βούλοιτο, φεύγω γῆν πρὸ γῆς, quoted by Suidas (s.vv. διαξαίνειν, ἴτω, and πρὸ γῆς), Lucian Alex. 46 γῆν πρὸ γῆς ἐλαύνεσθαι ὡς ἀσεβῆ, Cic. Att. xiv. 10 haec et alia ferre non possum; itaque γῆν πρὸ γῆς cogito. The expression (πρό= ἀντί) is analogous to ἀμείβεσθαι τόπον.

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686. Cp. Il. ix. 312 ἐχθρὸς γάρ μοι κεῖνος ὁμῶς ᾿Αΐδαο πύλῃσιν, ὅς χ᾽ ἕτερον μὲν κεύθῃ ἐνὶ φρεσίν, ἄλλο δὲ εἴπῃ. – συνθέτους λόγους : = composita dicta, in Attius (v. 47, Ribbeck).

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688. ηὔχουν: cp. 338, and Ag. 506 οὐ γάρ ποτ' ηὔχουν τῇδ᾽ ἐν ᾿Αργείᾳ χθονὶ θανὼν μεθέξειν φιλτάτου τάφου μέρος, Suppl. 329 τίς ηὔχει τήνδ᾽ ἀνέλπιστον φυγὴν κέλσειν ἐς ῎Apyos, Eur. Hel. 1619 οὐκ ἄν ποτ' ηὔχουν οὔτε σ᾽ οὔθ᾽ ἡμᾶς λαθεῖν Μενέλαον, Heracl. 931 οὐ γάρ ποτ' ηὔχει χεῖρας ἵξεσθαι σέθεν.

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691 f. πήματα, λύματα, δείματα: the assonance is intentional, as is the alliteration in ψύχειν ψυχάν. Cp. 480, 959; Eur. Or. 1302 φονεύετε, καίνετε, ὄλλυτε. – ἀμφάκει κέντρῳ: cp. Ад. 642 διπλῇ μάστιγι τὴν ῎Αρης φιλεῖ. The goad (see on 323) had two κέντρα. Cp. Soph. O. Τ. 809 διπλοῖς κέντροισι, Frg. 137 μάσθλητα δίγονον. — ψύχειν : chill. So τέφρικα below. Cp. Plaut. Pseud. 1215 mihi..ille...cor
perfrigefacit. For the idea cp. Eum. 155 ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ὄνειδος ἐξ ὀνειράτων μολὸν ἔτυψεν δίκαν διφρηλάτου μεσολαβεῖ κέντρῳ ὑπὸ φρένας, ὑπὸ λοβόν. πάρεστι μαστίκτορος δαμίου βαρὺ τὸ περίβαρυ κρύος ἔχειν. — The pres- ent ψύχειν, after the future μολεῖσθαι, because the mind of the speaker reverts to the present moment.

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695. πρᾶξιν: plight, τὸ πεπραγέναι. Cp. Soph. Trach. 151 τὴν αὑτοῦ σκοπῶν πρᾶξιν, 293 ἀνδρὸς εὐτυχῆ κλύουσα πρᾶ- ξιν τήνδε, Αί. 790 ἥκει φέρων Αἴαντος ἡμῖν πρᾶξιν ἣν ἤλγησ᾽ ἐγώ.

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696. πρώ: mature, too soon. Cp. Soph. Trach. 630 δέδοικα γὰρ μὴ πρὸ λέγοις ἂν τὸν πόθον τὸν ἐξ ἐμοῦ, πρὶν εἰδέναι τἀκεῖθεν εἰ ποθούμεθα, Plat. Par- men. 135 c πρὼ γὰρ, πρὶν γυμνασθῆναι, ὁρίζεσθαι ἐπιχειρεῖς καλόν τε τί καὶ δίκαιον καὶ ἀγαθόν. - πλέα τις: for τὶς with an adjective, see H. 702 a.

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702. τὸν ἀμφ᾽ ἑαυτῆς ἀθλον : = ἀμφ᾽ ἑαυτῆς τὸν ἑαυτῆς ἆθλον ἐξηγουμένης. An attributive of the subject or ob- ject is often modified by the intrusion of a preposition which would natu- rally accompany the predicate. This is most frequent with the prepositions ἐξ, ἀπό, παρά. Cp. Cho. 507 τὸν ἐκ βυθοῦ κλωστῆρα σῴζοντες λίνου = τὸν ἐν βυθῷ κλωστῆρα λίνου (i.e. net) σφ- ζοντες ἐκ βυθοῦ, also Ag. 538 κῆρυξ ᾿Ἀχαιῶν χαῖρε τῶν ἀπὸ στρατοῦ. Krü- ger I. § 50, 8, 10 (cp. H. 788 a). But it occurs also with other prepositions; thus εὐσεβεῖν τὰ πρὸς θεούς, Soph. Phil. 1441

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706. θυμῷ βάλε: cp. the Homeric phrase σὺ δ᾽ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ βάλλεο σῇσι (differently Od. i. 200 ὡς ἐνὶ θυμῷ ἀθάνατοι βάλλουσι). For the dative, cp. Sept. 1048 χώραν τήνδε κινδύνῳ βαλεῖν, Soph. Phil. 67 λύπην πᾶσιν ᾿Αργείοις βαλεῖς, Eur. Phoen. 1535 σκότον ὄμμασι σοῖσι βαλών.

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708. στρέψασα: not τρέψασα, be- cause Io is to turn aside from Pro- metheus in beginning her journey. - στεῖχε γύας: cp. 837; Sept. 466 κλί- μακος προσαμβάσεις στείχει, in prose πορεύεσθαι πεδίον, etc. G. 159, N. 5; H. 712 b. - The geographical de- scription which follows - a mixture of truth and fable - is based on the vague reports of the merchants who were engaged in the traffic between the Hellenic colonies on the Black Sea and the regions to the north- ward. Herodotus was the first to bring to the Greeks a more accurate knowledge of the country and peo- ples north of the Pontus.

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709. Cp. Od. xii. 39 Σειρῆνας μὲν πρῶτον ἀφίξεαι. – Σκύθας νομάδας : Hippocr. de Aëre 93 νομάδες δὲ και λεῦνται, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι σφι οἰκήματα, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ἁμάξῃσι οἰκεῦσι· αἱ δὲ ἅμαξαί εἰσι αἱ μὲν ἐλάχισται τετράκυκλοι, αἱ δὲ ἐξάκυκλοι· αὗται δὲ πίλοισι περιπεφραγ- μέναι· εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ τετεχνασμέναι ὥσπερ οἰκήματα, τὰ μὲν διπλᾶ, τὰ δὲ τριπλᾶ· ταῦτα δὲ καὶ στεγνὰ πρὸς ὕδωρ καὶ πρὸς χιόνα καὶ πρὸς τὰ πνεύματα, Hesiod in Strabo p. 302 γλακτοφάγων εἰς γαῖὰν ἀπήναις οἰκί ἐχόντων, Hdt. iv. 46 τοῖσι γὰρ μήτε ἄστεα μήτε τείχεα ἢ ἐκτι- σμένα, ἀλλὰ φερέοικοι ἐόντες πάντες ἔωσι ἱπποτοξόται, ζώοντες μὴ ἀπ᾿ ἀρότου, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ κτηνέων, οἰκήματά τέ σφι ῇ ἐπὶ ζευγέων, κῶς οὐκ ἂν εἴησαν οὗτοι ἄμαχοί τε καὶ ἄποροι προσμίσγειν. Ас- cording to Hdt. iv. 19, these Scythians lived on the Carcinite gulf, west of the Crimean isthmus: τὸ δὲ πρὸς ἠῶ τῶν γεωργῶν τούτων Σκυθέων (on the Borysthenes), διαβάντι τὸν Παντικάπην ποταμόν, νομάδες ἤδη Σκύθαι νέμονται, οὔτε τι σπείροντες οὐδὲν οὔτε ἀροῦντες. But before Herodotus their residence had not been thus determined, and Aeschylus thinks of them as dwelling far in the north near the Ocean. Cp. Strab. p. 492 τὸ πρῶτον μέρος ἐκ τῶν πρὸς ἄρκτον μερῶν καὶ τὸν ᾿Ὠκεανὸν Σκυθών τινες νομάδες καὶ ἁμάξοικοι, Plin. H. N. vi. 20, 53 inhabitabilis prima pars a Scythico pro- muntorio ob nives, proxima inculta saevitia gentium. Anthropophagi Scythae in- sident humanis corporibus vescentes; ideo iuxta vas- tae solitudines.

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714. Either verses have fallen out between 713 and 714, in which some other region, to be visited by Io after leaving the Ocean, was mentioned (cp. Frg. IX. of the Προμηθεὺς λυό- μενος), or the poet means that Io, having passed the Nomad Scythians in her course along the shore of Ocean, is to leave the Chalybes at her left, that is, wander inland and southward between the Scythians and Chalybes, until she reaches the river Hybristes. This she must follow upwards to its source in the Cauca- sus (720). - λαιᾶς χειρός : on the genitive, see Krüger II. § 46, 1, 3; G. 179, 2; H. 760; and Schneidewin- Nauck on Soph. El. 900.

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715. A tribrach in the second foot; the only occurrence in this play. See on 2. Resolutions are more frequent in this description than in other por- tions of the Prometheus. This is due LEIANA Chows out to the exceptional subject-matter and the number of proper names. See 717, 720, 721, 722, 729, 730, 735, 788, 793, 796, 805, 809, 811, 840, 847, 849, 851, 869. – Χάλυβες: these are else- where (Hdt. i. 28; Strab. p. 678) said to live south of the Black Sea. Aeschylus places them in Northern Scythia, because he regards them as Scythians (Sept. 728 χάλυβος Σκυθῶν ἄποικος), and identifies their land with the region which produced the Scythian steel (cp. 301). This region was in reality the Ural Mountains.

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717. Ὑβρίστην ποταμόν: the scho- liast remarks, τὸν ᾿Αράξην, παρὰ τὸ ἀράσσειν καὶ ἠχεῖν τὰ κύματα αὐτοῦ. The ancient expounders, we see, read ὑβριστήν, and supposed that by the designation "boisterous stream" the poet meant the Araxes, referring its name to ἀράσσειν. Cp. Eustath. on Dionys. Perieget. 739 τοῦ δὲ Μασσα- γετικοῦ τούτου ᾿Αράξου μέμνηται καὶ Αἰσχύλος, καὶ ἀρέσκεται καὶ ἐκεῖνος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀράσσειν καλεῖσθαι αὐτόν. As to Aeschylus's actual notion, see on 714.

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719 f. πρὸς αὐτὸν Καύκασον ἔνθα κτέ. : = πρὸς αὐτὸν τὸν τοῦ Καυκάσου τόπον ἔνθα ποταμὸς ἐκφυσᾷ μένος, till thou hast come to its very source on the
heights of Caucasus. αὐτόν belongs in sense to ἔνθα ποταμός, etc., and con- trasts the source with the lower course of the river. The poet, it would seem, imagines the Caucasus range to lie southeast of the scene of the play, and (as appears from the following) north of the Black and Azov seas.

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722. ὑπερβάλλουσαν: not ὑπερβα- λοῦσαν, because the southerly course is to be entered on during the passage of the mountain.

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723 f. ᾿Αμαζόνων : cp. 416. - στυγά- νορα: cp. Suppl. 287 καὶ τὰς ἀνάνδρους κρεοβόρους τ᾿ ᾿Αμάζονας. - Θεμίσκυραν · ἀμφὶ Θερμώδοντα: the fabulous race of the Amazons was sometimes as- signed to the river Thermodon and the city Themiscyra (Strabo p. 505 τὴν δὲ Θεμίσκυραν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν Θερμώδοντα πεδία καὶ τὰ ὑπερκείμενα ὄρη ἅπαντα ᾿Αμαζόνων καλοῦσι καί φασιν ἐξελαθῆναι αὐτὰς ἐνθένδε), sometimes to the part of Scythia bordering on the sea of Azov and the Tanais. The first- named view, in post-Homeric times, became the more generally accepted. Aeschylus avoids conflict with it by assuming a later migration of the Amazons from Scythia to the Ther- modon. Migration in the contrary direction is assumed by Hdt. iv. 110.

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725 f. ἵνα ... Σαλμυδησσία γνάθος : not a definition of Θερμώδοντα, but of the whole country of the Amazons, which is thereby given a greater ex- tension: round about the Thermodon to where, etc. There is perhaps a refer- ence to Il. iii. 187 οἵ ῥα τότ᾽ ἐστρα- τόωντο παρ᾿ ὄχθας Σαγγαρίοιο ... ἤματι τῷ ὅτε τ᾽ ἦλθον ᾿Αμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι, in ignorance or neglect of the great actual distance. Salmydessus, ac- cording to Strab. p. 319, is an ἔρημος αἰγιαλὸς καὶ λιθώδης, ἀλίμενος, ἀνα- πεπταμένος πολὺς πρὸς τοὺς βορέας, σταδίων ὅσον ἑπτακοσίων μέχρι Κυα- νέων τὸ μῆκος (that is, from the cape Thynias to the Thracian Bosporus). Cp. Soph. Ant. 966 παρὰ δὲ κυανέων σπιλάδων διδύμας ἁλὸς ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν Σαλμυδησσός, Xen. Anab. vii. 5. 12 Σαλμυδησσόν, ἔνθα τῶν εἰς τὸν Πόντον πλεουσῶν νεῶν πολλαὶ ὀκέλλουσι καὶ ἐκπίπτουσι· τέναγος γάρ ἐστιν ἐπὶ παμπολὺ τῆς θαλάττης.

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727. μητρυιά: cp. Hesiod O. D. 825 ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρη, ἄλλοτε μήτηρ.

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730. The only case in our play of a dactyl in the first foot. See on 18. - Join ὃν λιποῦσαν χρή σε ἐκπερᾶν αὐλῶνα Μαιωτικόν.

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731. αὐλῶνα: properly valley; said of a strait of the sea here and Soph. Trach. 100 ποντίας αὐλῶνας. The channel of the Bosporus is meant, not the sea of Azov itself.

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732. λόγος μέγας: cp. Soph. Ai. 226 ἀγγελίαν ... τὰν ὁ μέγας μῦθος (rumor late serpens) ἀέξει.

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733. Βόσπορος: the understanding of this name as βοὸς πόρος (cp. τῆς σῆς πορείας) helped to fix the direction of Io's legendary wandering. The deri- vation, however, is wrong. At any rate the Thracian Bosporus, which, even more universally than the Cim- merian, was believed to owe its name to Io's passage, really received its name from the goddess Εκάτη Φωσφό- ρος (dialectic Βοσπόρος), who was there worshipped.

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734. λιπούσα δ' Εὐρώπης πέδον : the Cimmerian Bosporus was consid- ered the boundary of Europe and Asia. Cp. 790. All the places hither- to mentioned Aeschylus regards as belonging to Europe. See on 631.

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735. ἀρ᾽ ὑμῖν δοκεῖ : ἆρα confidently spoken for ἆρ᾽ οὐ (as -ne for nonne). Cp. Soph. O. Τ. 822 ἆρ᾽ ἔφυν κακός, ἆρ᾽ οὐχὶ πᾶς ἄναγνος; Ο. C. 753 ἆρ᾿ ἄθλιον τοὔνειδος ὠνείδισ᾽ εἰς σὲ κἀμὲ καὶ τὸ πᾶν γένος; 780 ἆρ᾽ ἂν ματαίου τῆσδ᾽ ἂν ἡδονῆς τύχοις; Krüger I. § 69, 9.

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736. ὁμῶς : = ὁμοίως. Cp. Εum. 387 δυσοδοπαίπαλα δερκομένοισι καὶ δυσομ- μάτοις ὁμῶς, 695 τό τ᾽ ἦμαρ καὶ κατ᾿ εὐφρόνην ὁμῶς, Ιl. i. 209 ἄμφω ὁμῶς θυμῷ φιλέουσά τε κηδομένη τε.

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741. εἶναι ἐν προοιμίοις : like ἔν τισιν ἀριθμεῖσθαι; belong to the προοίμια,
count as such. Cp. Pers. 435 εὖ νῦν τόδ᾽ ἴσθι, μηδέπω μεσοῦν κακόν, Eur. Med. 60 ἐν ἀρχῇ πῆμα κοὐδέπω μεσοῖ. On the aphaeresis see Krüger II. § 14, 9,5; H. 83.

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742. αὐ: see 696.

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745. τῇδε: belongs to λοιπόν.

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746. Cp. Sept. 758 κακῶν δ᾽ ὥσπερ θάλασσα κῦμ᾽ ἄγει· τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δ᾽ ἀείρει τρίχαλον κτἑ., Suppl. 470 ἄτης ἄβυσσον πέλαγος ... ἐσβέβηκα κοὐδα- μοῦ λιμὴν κακῶν.

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747. Cp. Eur. Med. 145 τί δέ μοι ζῆν ἔτι κέρδος; 798 ἴτω· τί μοι ζῆν κέρδος; στυφελόν· τραχύ, σκληρόν. Cp. Pers. 303 στύφλους παρ᾿ ἀκτάς, 964 στυφελοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἀκτᾶς.

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749 f. ὅπως ἀπηλλάγην : see on 157.

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753. θανεῖν μέν : as if τέρμα δὲ μό- χθων οὐδέν ἐστι προκείμενον followed.

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754. For the thought cp. Soph. Trach. 1173 τοῖς γὰρ θανοῦσι μόχθος οὐ προσγίγνεται, Εl. 1170 τοὺς γὰρ θανόν- τας οὐχ ὁρῶ λυπουμένους.

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755. νῦν δέ: nunc vero; follow- ing the thought εἰ θανεῖν πεπρωμένον ἦν, αὕτη ἦν ἂν πημάτων ἀπαλλαγή. – Cp. 257.. - 748. στύφλου: Hesych. στύφλον ἢ

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756. πρὶν ἂν ἐκπέσῃ τυραννίδος : unlike the statement made in 258.
Prometheus at last lifts slightly the veil of the secret so often hinted at, and defines somewhat the danger threatening Zeus. But the former statement, πλὴν ὅταν κείνῳ δοκῇ, is really more exact. For ἐκπεσεῖν τυ- ραννίδος is only a possibility, which in the end is not fulfilled.

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760. ὄντων: sc. τῶνδε, as Soph. Ai. 981 ὡς ὧδ᾽ ἐχόντων ... πάρα στενάζειν, Ant. 1179 ὡς ὧδ᾽ ἐχόντων τἄλλα βου- λεύειν πάρα. GMT. 848 and 917.

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761. τύραννα σκήπτρα: cp. Soph. Ant. 1169 τύραννον σχῆμα, Eur. Andr. 3 τύραννον ἑστίαν, Ηipp. 843 τύραννον δῶμα. Like δοῦλος, κασίγνητος, γέρων, and gentile nouns, τύραννος is a word which hovers between substantive and adjective. Cp. Ag. 750 γέρων λόγος, Frg. 317 γέρον γράμμα (Catull. lxviii. 46 charta loquaturanus), Frg. 338 κάπηλα τεχνήματα. σκήπτρα is accusative. G. 197, Ν. 2; H. 724 a.

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762. πρὸς αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ: the metre would permit αὐτὸς πρὸς αὐτοῦ, but the juxtaposition of αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ adds point to the expression and sharpens its irony. See on 19; and cp. Ag. 836 τοῖς τ᾽ αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ πήμασιν βαρύνεται, Soph. Ai. 1132 τοὺς γ᾽ αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ πολεμίους, Ο. C. 929 σὺ δ᾽ ἀξίαν οὐκ οὖσαν αἰσχύνεις πόλιν τὴν αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ, 1356 τὸν αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ πατέρα τόνδ᾽ ἀπή- λασας, Timocles, Meineke Com. III. p. 593 τὰς αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ συμφορὰς ῥᾷον φέρει, Philemon, Meineke Com. IV. p. 50 τοὺς αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ βούλεθ᾽ ὑγιαί- νειν φίλους; also the verse quoted by Macarius VIII. 18 (Paroemiogr. Graec. II. p. 216 ed. Leutsch) τὴν αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ (νῦν) θύραν κρούεις λίθῳ, Babr. 56, 9 τά γ᾽ αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ πᾶς τις εὐπρεπῆ κρίνει. In prose, Aeschin. ΙΙΙ. 233 καταλέλυκεν τὴν αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ δυναστείαν (where some mss. have the usual order αὐτὸς τὴν), [Plat.] Alc. II. 144 c οὐδὲ τὴν ὁτουοῦν μητέρα διενοεῖτο ἀποκτεῖναι, ἀλλὰ τὴν αὐτὸς
αὑτοῦ, Nicostrat. in Stob. Flor. 70, 12 εἰ γε μέλλει τις ... ἡδέως εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τὴν αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ εἰσελεύσεσθαι, Parthen. 3 πρὸς τῆς αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ γενεᾶς τρωθείς, Aristid. i. p. 128 σαγηνεύων τὴν ἀρχὴν τὴν αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ, ii. p. 148 ὁ δ᾽ ἀφ᾿ ἑστίας ἀρξάμενος τῆς αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ τὸ σύμμετρον ᾑρεῖτο πρὸ τοῦ πλέονος. Also Ovid. Am. i. 7, 26 valui poenam fortis in ipse meam, Ars Amat. iii. 668 indicio prodor ab ipse meo.

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763. εἰ μή τις βλάβη: cp. 196.

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764. ἀσχαλᾷ: for the tense see on 171. Krüger II. § 53, 1, 1. Ср. Eur. Phoen. 633 οὐ γὰρ οἶδ᾽ εἴ μοι προσειπεῖν αὖθις ἔσθ᾽ ὑμᾶς ποτε.

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765. θέορτον: cp. 116.

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766. τί δ᾽ ὅντινα: cp. Soph. O. T. 1056 τί δ᾽ ὅντιν᾿ εἶπε; ὅντινα refers to the question θέορτον ἢ βρότειον: in full τί δ' ("why ask") ὅντινα γάμον γαμεῖ; - γάρ: because τί δ᾽ ὅντιν implies a refusal. — ῥητὸν αὐδᾶσθαι : cp. Ar. Av. 1713 οὐ φατὸν λέγειν, Orph. Arg. 931 οὐ φατὸν εἰπεῖν, also Eur. Bacch. 472 ἄρρητ᾽ ἀβακχεύτοισιν εἰδέναι βροτῶν.

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767. ἐξανίσταται: for the present tense see note on 513.

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768. See Introd. p. 17. The word φέρτερον recalls the passage of Pindar in question (quoted in note to 924).

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770. ἄν: peradventure. The un- certainty implied in av refers solely to the possible alternative that Zeus, unwarned by Prometheus, shall enter into the fatal union. Perhaps verbis suppressed wittiwhich is showed 80. ε.δ. αποστρόφουμι

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771 f. ὁ λύσων: see on 27. The object is easily supplied; cp. 27, 176, 337, 721, 783, 785. - Io's words, "who shall free thee against Zeus's will?" imply "no one can free thee." Ac- cordingly Prometheus, without regard το ἄκοντος Διός, answers, to Io's aston- ishment, "from thy offspring my de- liverer shall come." In point of fact the deliverance, in the following drama, does not come about ἄκοντος Διός, but rather, as in Hesiod Theog. 529, οὐκ ἀέκητι Ζηνὸς Ὀλυμπίου ὑψιμέ- δοντος.

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774. ἀπὸ Ἰοῦς Ἔπαφος, οὗ Λιβύη, ἧς Βῆλος, οὗ Δαναός, οὗ ῾Υπερμνήστρα ἡ μὴ κτείνασα τὸν Λυγκέα τὸν ὁμόζυγον, ἧς ῎Αβας, οὗ Προῖτος, οὗ ᾿Ακρίσιος, οὗ Δα- νάη, ἧς Περσεύς, οὗ Ηλεκτρυών, οὗ ᾿Αλκμήνη, ἧς Ἡρακλῆς, Schol.

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775. οὐκέτι: no longer, in contrast to the foregoing revelations. - εὐ- ξύμβλητος : cp. Soph. Trach. 694 ἀξύμ- βλητον ἀνθρώπῳ μαθεῖν, Cho. 170 εὐξύμ- βολον τόδ᾽ ἐστὶ παντὶ δοξάσαι.

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776 f. καὶ μηδὲ σαυτής : and thine own sufferings, too, seek not to learn; that is, "thou understandest not my prophecy; shouldst thou ask to know it, thine own sufferings also would be revealed to thee; the explanation of the prophecy involves the prediction of thy woes." προτείνων : not προ- τείνας; "do not hold it forth and at the same moment deprive me of it."

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778. On this construction of δωρεῖ-
σθαι (accus. of person and dat. of thing) see Krüger II. § 48, 7, 4.

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780. Cp. Eur. Phoen. 951 τοῖνδ᾽ ἑλοῦ δυοῖν πότμοιν τὸν ἕτερον· ἢ γὰρ παῖδα σῶσον ἡ πόλιν. – ἑλοῦ γὰρ ἤ: ...ἤ in indirect question, as in Homer, for the common εἰ... ἤ, to express sharp contrast of the alter- natives (δυοῖν θατέρῳ). Cp. Cho. 890 εἰδῶμεν ἢ νικῶμεν ἢ νικώμεθα, Soph. Ο. C. 80 οἵδε γὰρ κρινοῦσί σοι ἢ χρή σε μίμνειν ἢ πορεύεσθαι πάλιν, Eur. Med. 492 οὐδ᾽ ἔχω μαθεῖν ἢ θεοὺς νομί- ζεις τοὺς τότ᾽ οὐκ ἄρχειν ἔτι ἢ καινὰ κεῖσθαι θέσμι᾽ ἀνθρώποις τὰ νῦν. See Krüger II. § 65, 1, 3. – πόνων τὰ λοιπά: cp. 634. - The stichomythy ends with a speech of two verses.

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782. τούτοιν : sc. τοῖν χαρίτοιν. The dual of ὁ, οὗτος, ὅδε, αὐτός, ὅς, ὅστις has one form for all genders in the older Attic.

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783. ἀτιμάσῃς λόγου: sc. με (see on 771). For the expression, cp. Suppl. 378 τάσδ᾽ ἀτιμάσαι λιτάς, Soph. O. C. 49 μή μ᾿ ἀτιμάσῃς, . . . ὧν σε προστρέπω φράσαι, 1273 οὐδ᾽ ἀνταμείβει μ᾽ οὐδέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀτιμάσας πέμψεις ἄναυδος, Ant. 21 οὐ γὰρ τάφου . . . τὸν δ᾽ ἀτιμάσας ἔχει; Ο. C. 1278 ὡς μή μ᾽ ἄτιμον ... οὕτως ἀφῇ με μηδὲν ἀντειπὼν ἔπος, Ο. Τ. 788 καί μ' ὁ Φοῖβος ὧν μὲν ἱκόμην ἄτιμον ἐξέπεμψεν.

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788. πολύδονον: see on 589.

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789. ἐγγράφου κτέ.: cp. Suppl. 179 αἰνῶ φυλάξαι τἄμ᾽ ἔπη δελτουμένας, Eum. 274 δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί, Soph. Frg. 535 θὲς δ᾽ ἐν φρενὸς δέλτοισι τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους, Cho. 450 τοιαῦτ᾽ ἀκούων ἐν φρεσὶν γράφου, Soph. Phil. 1325 καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐπίστω καὶ γράφου φρενῶν ἔσω, Pind. Οl. xi. 2 πόθι φρενὸς ἐμᾶς γέγραπται, Paul. Ep. Cor. II. iii. 3 ἐπιστολὴ Χριστοῦ ἐγγεγραμμένη οὐκ ἐν πλαξὶ λιθίναις, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν πλαξὶ καρδίας.

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790. ῥεῖθρον: i.e. the strait. - ἠπεί- ροιν ὅρον: see on 734.

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791. ἀντολὰς ἡλιοστιβεῖς : peri- phrasis for ἀντολὰς ἡλίου. With ἡλιο- στιβής cp. Sept. 859 τὰν ἀστιβῆ ᾿πόλ- λωνι. The following places must therefore lie in the east. Thence Io is to reach Egypt by following the course of the river Aethiops (809 ff.). - After 791 some verses have fallen out.

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792. πόντου: probably the Cas- pian is meant, with which, however, the ancients confounded the sea of Aral.

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793. Γοργόνεια : explained by 798 f. The home of the Gorgons, although placed in the west by Hesiod (Theog. 274 f.), was sometimes thought of as in the east. Cp. Schol. Pind. Pyth. x. 72 αἱ δὲ Γοργόνες κατὰ μέν τινας ἐν τοῖς Ερυθραίοις μέρεσι καὶ τοῖς Αἰθιοπικοῖς, ἅ ἐστι πρὸς ἀνατολὴν καὶ μεσημβρίαν, κατὰ δέ τινας ἐπὶ τῶν περάτων τῆς Λιβύης ἅ ἐστι πρὸς δύσιν. Cisthene we must accordingly understand_to be in the far east, at the end of the world. The verse of the comic poet Cratinus (quoted by Harpocration under Κισθήνη), κἀνθένδ᾽ ἐπὶ τέρματα - γῆς ἥξεις καὶ Κισθήνης ὄρος ὄψει, is probably a parody of this passage.

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794. αἱ Φορκίδες ... δηναιαὶ κόραι : cp. Hesiod Theog. 270 Φόρκυι δ᾽ αὖ Κητὼ Γραίας τέκε καλλιπαρήους ἐκ γενετῆς πολιάς, τὰς δὴ Γραίας καλέου- σιν ... Γοργούς θ' αἱ ναίουσι πέρην κλυ- τοῦ ᾿Ωκεανοῖο.

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795. τρεῖς κυκνομόρφοι: three is the number commonly given, but Hesiod seems to mention only two Graeae, Pephredo and Enyo. 'Swan- form - perhaps a swan's body with a human head - belongs to them be- cause they are sea-divinities, and swim in the sea like water-fowl. For a like reason other sea-gods were given the form of fishes' (Schoemann, Die He- siodische Theogonie, p. 156). — ἐκτημέ- ναι : the perfect ἐκτῆσθαι, for κεκτήσθαι, recurs Il. ix. 402, and in Herodotus.

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796 f. Cp. Frg. 169 ἃς οὔτε πέμφιξ ἡλίου προσδέρκεται οὔτ᾽ ἀστερωπὸν ὄμμα Λητῴας κόρης. - The scholiast notes κατῴκουν δὲ ὑπὸ γῆν καὶ οὔτε ἡλίῳ οὔτε σελήνῃ ἦσαν θεαταί.

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798 f. ἀδελφαί: cp. Hesiod l.c. Their names are Σθεινώ, Εὐρυάλη, and
Μέδουσα. – δρακοντόμαλλοι : cp. Cho. 1048 γυναῖκες αἵδe (the Erinyes) Γορ- γόνων δίκην ... πεπλεκτανημέναι πυκνοῖς Harpies Apoll. Rh. Arg. ii. 289 μεγά- λοιο Διὸς κύνας. – ἀκραγεῖς: Hesych. οτά-κράζω ἀκραγές· δυσχερές, σκληρόν, ὀξύχολον δράκουσιν. For μαλλός said of hair, (Bekk. Anecd. p. 369, 17 ἀκρόχολον). Silant. cp. Eurip. Bacch. 112 πλοκάμων μαλ- λοῖς.

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801. φρούριον: here cautio, οἷον φρουρήσασθαι. The scholiast explains καταγωγὴν ἣν ὀφείλεις φυλάξασθαι. Cp. φρούριον· προφύλαγμα, Hesych. See 715, 804; also 712, 718, 807.

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804. μούνωπα : see on 543. – στρα- τὸν ᾿Αριμασπόν: see on 761. On the name, Hdt. iv. 27 οὐνομάζομεν αὐτοὺς σκυθιστὶ ᾿Αριμασπούς· ἄριμα γὰρ ἓν καλέουσι Σκύθαι, σποῦ δὲ τὸν ὀφθαλ- μόν, Eustath. on Dion. Perieg. 31 ἀρὶ μὲν γὰρ τὸ ἓν σκυθιστί, μασπὸς δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός. This etymology, obviously connected with the belief in a one- eyed race, came probably from the ᾿Αριμάσπεα, an epic poem by Aristeas, of which Hdt. says (iv. 13) ἔφη δὲ ᾿Αριστέης ὁ Καϋστροβίου ἀνὴρ Προκοννή- σιος ποιέων ἔπεα, ἀπικέσθαι ἐς Ἰσσηδόνας φοιβόλαμπτος γενόμενος, Ἰσσηδόνων δ᾽ ὑπεροικέειν ᾿Αριμασποὺς ἄνδρας μουνο- φθάλμους, ὑπὲρ δὲ τούτων τοὺς χρυσοφύ- λακας γρῦπας, τούτων δὲ τοὺς Ὑπερβο- ρέους κατήκοντας ἐπὶ θάλασσαν. Cp. Paus. i. 24. 6 τούτους τοὺς γρῦπας ἐν τοῖς ἔπεσιν ᾿Αριστέας ὁ Προκοννήσιος μάχεσθαι περὶ τοῦ χρυσοῦ φησιν ᾿Αριμα- σποῖς τοῖς ὑπὲρ Ἰσσηδόνων· τὸν δὲ χρυσὸν ὃν φυλάσσουσιν οἱ γρῦπες ἀνιέναι τὴν γῆν· εἶναι δὲ ᾿Αριμασποὺς μὲν ἄν- δρας μονοφθάλμους πάντας ἐκ γενετῆς, γρῦπας δὲ θηρία λέουσι εἰκασμένα, πτερὰ δὲ ἔχειν καὶ στόμα ἀετοῦ. These stories about griffins and Arimaspi had their origin in the Persian-Indian fable of gold-digging ants (which in Ctesias's account, quoted above, appear as
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807 ff. σύ: expresses affectionate interest. – τηλουρὸν γῆν, κελαινὸν φύ- λον: personal accusative as apposi- tive to the name of the country. Cp. Krüger II. § 46, 3, 1 and 2. κελαινὸν φῦλον is further defined by ποταμὸς Αἰθίοψ in the next verse. - ἡλίου πη- γαῖς : this cannot be the Fount of the Sun, sacred to Ammon, which is described by Hdt. iv. 181 ἐπίκλησιν δὲ αὕτη ἡ κρήνη καλέεται ἡλίου; cp. Quint. Curt. iv. 7, 22 aquam solis vocant, Lucret. vi. 848 esse apud Hammonis fanum fons luce diurna frigidus, at calidus nocturno tempore fertur. Rather it appears from Eur. Frg. 771, Μέροπι τῆσδ᾽ ἄνακτι γῆς, ἣν ἐκ τεθρίπ- πων ἁρμάτων πρώτην χθόνα Ἥλιος ἀνί- σχων χρυσέᾳ βάλλει φλογί· καλοῦσι δ᾽ αὐτὴν γείτονες μελάμβροτοι Ἕω φαεννὰς Ηλίου θ᾽ ἱπποστάσεις, that the παντο- τρόφος λίμνη, described in Frg. II. of the Προμ. λυόμενος below, is meant. Its waters give life and happiness. Origi- nally it was thought to be in the heav- ens, afterwards on the earth; cp. the Homeric verse (Od. iii. 1) Ἠέλιος δ᾽ ἀνόρουσε λιπὼν περικαλλέα λίμνην οὐρα- νὸν ἐς πολύχαλκον. — Strabo p. 33, quoting the Frg. of the Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος just mentioned, shows that the early Greeks regarded all the south as belonging to Aethiopia, as the whole north to Scythia; he adds μηνύει δὲ καὶ Ἔφορος τὴν παλαιὰν περὶ τῆς Αἰθιοπίας δόξαν προστίθησι δ᾽ ὅτι μείζων ἡ Αἰθιοπία καὶ ἡ Σκυθία· δο- κεῖ γάρ, φησί, τὸ τῶν Αἰθιόπων ἔθνος παρατείνειν ἀπ᾿ ἀνατολῶν χειμερινῶν μέχρι δυσμῶν, ἡ Σκυθία δ᾽ ἀντικεῖται τούτῳ.

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809. ποταμὸς Αιθίοψ: the scholiast rightly explains ὁ Νεῖλος. The name Nile, it was said, properly belonged only to the lower course of the river, below the last cataract (see note on 811). Cp. Solin. 32 demumque a Cataracte ultimo tutus est, ita enim quaedam claustra eius Aegyptii nuncupant; re- licto tamen hoc post se no- mine quo Nigris vocatur, Vitruv. viii. 2, 6 pervenit per montes ad catarrhactam ab eaque se praecipitans Nilus appellatur. Aeschylus, like others of his time, conceives of the Nile, under the name Αἰθίοψ (Nigris) as
rising in the east (i.e. southeast). Cp. the Schol. on Suppl. 559 χιονό- βοσκον (said of the Nile) φασὶ γὰρ λυομένης χιόνος παρὰ Ἰνδοῖς πληροῦ- σθαι αὐτόν. Alexander and his com- panions thought the Indian river Hy- daspes to be the beginning of the Nile. Cp. also Frg. 304, γένος μὲν αἰνεῖν ἐκμαθὼν ἐπίσταμαι Αἰθιοπίδος γῆς, ἔνθα Νεῖλος ἑπτάρους γαῖαν κυλίνδει πνευμάτων ἐπομβρίᾳ, ἐν δ᾽ ἥλιος πυρω- πὸς ἐκλάμψας χθονὶ τήκει πετραίαν χιόνα· πᾶσα δ᾽ εὐθαλὴς Αἴγυπτος ἁγνοῦ νάματος πληρουμένη φερέσβιον Δήμη- τρος ἀντέλλει στάχυν.

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811. καταβασμόν : the so-called Little Cataract, the tenth and last in descending, is meant. It is now called Shellal = Cataract; its ancient name was Κατάδουπα. Cp. Hdt. ii. 17 Αἴγυπτον πᾶσαν ἀρξαμένην ἀπὸ Κα- ταδούπων τε καὶ Ἐλεφαντίνης πόλιος, Strabo p. 817 μικρὸν δ᾽ ὑπὲρ Ελεφαντί- νης ἐστὶν καταράκτης ·, πετρώδης τις ὀφρύς, ἐπίπεδος μὲν ἄνωθεν ὥστε δέχε- σθαι τὸν ποταμόν, τελευτῶσα δ᾽ εἰς κρημ- νόν, καθ᾽ οὗ καταρρήγνυται τὸ ὕδωρ, Cic. Somn. Scip. 18 sicut ubi Nilus ad ea quae Catadupa nomi- nantur praecipitat ex altis- simis montibus. - βυβλίνων ὀρῶν: ἀπὸ τῆς γινομένης παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς βύβλου ἔπλασεν τὰ βύβλινα ὄρη, Schol. On this Stanley remarks, 'non absimile vero, namque et Niger perinde ac Nilus papyro viget et calamo praetexitur, Solin. 30.'

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812. σεπτόν: said as in the above- quoted Frg. ἁγνοῦ νάματος, 434 above ἁγνορύτων ποταμῶν, Pers. 497 ῥέε- θρον ἁγνοῦ Στρυμόνοs, Eur. Iph. Τ. 401 ῥεύματα σεμνὰ Δίρκας. - Νεῖλος : nearly = Νεῖλος γενόμενος, as the Nile. εὔποτον ῥέος : Suppl. 561 ὕδωρ τὸ Νείλου νόσοις ἄθικτον, Achill. Tatius iv. 18 (of the Nile-water) γλυκὺ δὲ πινόμενον ἦν καὶ ψυχρὸν ἐν μέτρῳ τῆς ἡδονῆς. Pescennius Niger, when his soldiers demanded wine, exclaimed, 'Nilum habetis et vinum quaeritis?' to which Aelius Spar- tianus (Pesc. Nig. 7) adds tanta illius fluminis dulcitudo ut accolae vina non quaerant. For ῥέος cp. 676.

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813. τρίγωνον χθόνα: τὸ καλεόμενον Δέλτα, Hdt. ii. 13.

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814. μακράν: distant. Not tem- poral ("lasting till the return of the Danaides to Argos").

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816. τῶν δέ : see on 234. — ψελλόν: Ar. Frg. 536 ψελλόν ἐστι καὶ καλεῖ τὴν ἄρκτον ἄρτον. Cp. Hesych. ψελλός· ὁ τὸ σίγμα παχύτερον λέγων. ψελλίζειν · ἀσήμως λαλεῖν. Bekk. Anecd. p. 116, 18, ψελλός· Αἰσχύλος Προμηθεῖ. τέ θεικε δὲ τὴν λέξιν ἐπὶ τοῦ σαφῶς μὴ εἰρημένου. “Lisping" = "indistinct." Cp. the use of τυφλός (see note on 499).

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822. μέμνησαι δέ που · joined loosely to ἥνπερ αἰτούμεσθα . Cp . Soph . Ant . 531 σὺ δ᾽, ἡ κατ᾿ οἴκους λήθουσά μ᾿ ἐξέπινες, οὐδ᾽ ἐμάνθανον τρέφων δύ᾽ ἄτα, κτέ .

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830 ff . ἰπύνωτον : Dodona lay on the flank of the Tomaros or Tmaros range . At the foot of the mountain stood the temple . ἀμφί : cp . 1029 , - Soph . Αi . 1064 ἀμφὶ χλωρὰν ψάμαθον ἐκβεβλημένος . – Δωδώνην : Hdt . ii . 52 τὸ γὰρ δὴ μαντήιον τοῦτο νενόμισται ἀρχαιότατον τῶν ἐν ῞Ἕλλησι χρηστηρίων εἶναι. It was a sign - oracle ; the rus- tling of a sacred oak ( φηγός ) was interpreted , originally by the Σελλοί , afterwards by three priestesses ( πε- λιαί , ί.ε. πολιαί ) . Cp . Od . xiv . 327 τὸν δ᾽ ἐς Δωδώνην φάτο βήμεναι , ὄφρα
θεοῖο ἐκ δρυὸς ὑψικόμοιο Διὸς βουλὴν ἐπακούσαι, Ιl. xvi. 233 Ζεῦ ἄνα Δωδω- ναῖε Πελασγικέ, τηλόθι ναίων, Δωδώνης μεδέων δυσχειμέρου· ἀμφὶ δὲ Σελλοὶ σοὶ ναίουσ᾽ ὑποφῆται ἀνιπτόποδες χαμαιεῦ- ναι. – Θεσπρωτοῦ: cp. Eur. Phoen. 982 Θεσπρωτὸν οἶδας ... σεμνὰ Δωδώνης βά- θρα, Strabo p. 328 Δωδώνη τοίνυν τὸ μὲν παλαιὸν ὑπὸ Θεσπρωτοῖς ἦν ... καὶ οἱ τραγικοὶ δὲ καὶ Πίνδαρος Θεσπρωτίδα εἰρήκασι τὴν Δωδώνην· ὕστερον δὲ ὑπὸ Μολοττοῖς ἐλέγετο. – αἱ προσήγοροι δρύες: cp. Soph. Trach. 171, 1166 & τῶν ὀρείων καὶ χαμαικοιτῶν ἐγὼ Σελλῶν ἐσελθὼν ἄλσος εἰσεγραψάμην πρὸς τῆς πατρώας καὶ πολυγλώσσου δρυός, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1475 quercus fatidica.

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834. ή: the article with the predi- cate noun, because the words of the oracle are directly quoted. Cp. Eur. Η. F. 581 Ἡρακλῆς ὁ καλλίνικος ὡς πάροιθε λέξομαι, Οr. 1140 ὁ μητροφόντης δ᾽ οὐ καλεῖ ταύτην κτανών. - κλεινή : noble; an epithet of princely and high- born personages.

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835. μέλλουσ᾽ ἔσεσθαι: in place of these interpolated words we expect something like κλύεις μάται᾿ (= ἆρα μάτην λέγω; cp. 824) ἢ τῶνδε προσσαί- νει σε τι; Prometheus would then mean that his exact knowledge of the words of the oracle is the best τεκμήριον (826). Cp. Ag. 1194, where Casandra, after showing her acquaint- ance with the grewsome history of the Atridae, asks the chorus ἥμαρτον, ἢ θηρῶ τι τοξότης τις ὥς; ἢ ψευδόμαντίς εἰμι θυροκόπος φλέδων, Soph. Ο. Τ. 1140 λέγω τι τούτων ἢ οὐ λέγω πε- πραγμένον ; – προσσαίνει : ὑπομιμνή- σκει σε, Schol., touches thee caressingly = "awakens in thee a pleasant mem- ory." Cp. Soph. Ant. 1214 παιδός με σαίνει φθόγγος, Eur. Hipp. 862 καὶ μὴν τύποι γε σφενδόνης χρυσηλάτου τῆς οὐ- κέτ᾽ οὔσης τῆσδε προσσαίνουσί με. Ob- serve that the sentence is parenthetic.

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837. κόλπον 'Ρέας: καὶ ᾿Απολλώνιος Κρονίην ἅλα τὸν Ἰόνιόν φησι, οὕτω γὰρ ἐκαλεῖτο, Schol. The passage is Argon. ⅳν. 327 δή ῥα τότε Κρονίην Κόλχοι ἅλα δ᾽ ἐκπρομολόντες. - μέγαν: cp. Verg. Aen. iii. 211 insulae Ionio in magno, and Servius's note scien- dum Ionium sinum esse im- mensum ab Ionia usque ad Siciliam, et huius partes esse Adriaticum, Achaicum, Epiroticum.

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838. παλιμπλάγκτοισι : πάλιν means back from the sea, into the interior. Cp. Od. xiii. 5 παλιμπλαγχθέντα. χειμάζει : see on 563. The present signifies that this last stage of her journey brings her to Prometheus.

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840. Ιόνιος: a false etymology. The first syllable of the name is short, both here and Eur. Phoen. 208, when ᾿Ιόνιον κατά responds to ἴσα δ' ἀγάλμασι. (Yet Ovid Her. xiv. 103 makes the first syllable of Io short.)

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846. ἔστιν πόλις Κάνωβος : the narrative begins, in epic fashion, with a description of the locality. Cp. Od. iii. 293 ἔστι δέ τις λισσὴ αἰπεῖά τε εἰς ἅλα πέτρη, Il. ii. 811 ἔστι δέ τις προπά- ροιθε πόλιος αἰπεῖα κολώνη (in Latin poets est locus), Soph. Trach. 237 ἀκτή τις ἔστ᾽ Εὐβοιίς, 752 ἀκτή τις ἀμφί- κλυστος ἔστιν, Ant. 966 παρὰ δὲ κυανέων σπιλάδων ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν Σαλμυδησσὸς ἵνα κτέ., Eur. Hipp. 1199 ἀκτή τις ἔστι τοὐπέκεινα τῆσδε γῆς, Iph. Τ. 262 ἦν τις διαρρὼξ κυμάτων πολλῷ σάλῳ κοιλωπὸς ἀγμός, 1450 χῶ- ρός τις ἔστιν ᾿Ατθίδος πρὸς ἐσχάτοις ὅροισι, also Aesch. Pers. 447. — χθονός: of its region. Cp. Suppl. 717 οἴακος ἰθυντῆρος ὑστάτου νεώς. For the story cp. Suppl. 311 καὶ μὴν Κάνωβον κἀπὶ Μέμφιν ἵκετο (sc. Ιώ).

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848. τίθησιν : to Prometheus's pro- phetic vision the future is like the present. See on 109 and 211. - ἔμ- φρονα: Aeschylus has changed the story. The prevailing account (see on 561) was, according to the scholi- ast on Eur. Phoen. 678, ὁ Ζεὺς ἐπαφη- σάμενος· τῆς Ἰοῦς πάλιν εἰς γυναῖκα μετεμόρφωσε. Cp. Ovid Met. i. 738 vultus capit illa priores, fitque quod ante fuit.

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851. τέξεις: the same form 869, the middle form 768.

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852. πλατύρρους: cp. Frg. 304 ἔνθα Νεῖλος ἑπτάρους. The uncon- tracted -poos appears in Frg. 280 πλεκτάνην χειμάρροον. ...

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855 f. συγγενή: gives the motive for φεύγουσα. – ἀνεψιῶν : cp. Suppl. 320 Δαναός· ἀδελφὸς δ᾽ ἐστὶ πεντακον- τάπαις ... Αἴγυπτος. - ἐπτοημένοι : cp. Eur. Iph. A. 586 ἔρωτι δ᾽ αὐτὸς ἐπ- τοάθης, Sappho Frg. 2, 5 καὶ γελαίσας ἰμερόεν, τό μοι μὰν καρδίαν ἐν στήθεσιν ἐπτόασεν, Apoll. Rhod. Arg. i. 1232 τῆς δὲ φρένας ἐπτοίησεν Κύπρις.

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857. κίρκοι: the simile is added without comparative conjunction, in poetic fashion. For the comparison cp. Suppl. 223 ἐν ἁγνῷ δ᾽ ἑσμὸς ὡς πελειάδων ἵζεσθε κίρκων τῶν ὁμοπτέρων φόβῳ, Ιl. xxii. 139 ἠύτε κίρκος ὄρεσφιν ἐλαφρότατος πετεεινῶν ῥηιδίως οἴμησε μετὰ τρήρωνα πέλειαν. sense:

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859. φθόνον ἕξει : = φθονήσει. Cp. χρείαν ἔχειν 169, and Cho. 481. The "God will begrudge them their desire," σωμάτων τῶν παρθένων φθονήσει αὐτοῖς (cp. 584), 'puella- rum fructum deus maritis invidebit' (Heyne). The marriage will be cele- brated, but will be dissolved in blood.

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860 f. Πελασγία: cp. Eur. Suppl. 367 καὶ μεγάλᾷ Πελασγίᾳ καὶ κατ᾿ ῎Αρ- yos, Strabo p. 221 Αἰσχύλος ἐκ τοῦ περὶ Μυκήνας ῎Αργους φησὶν ἐν Ἱκέτισι καὶ Δαναΐσι τὸ γένος αὐτῶν (ⅰ.e. τῶν Πελασ-
γῶν) καὶ τὴν Πελοπόννησον δὲ Πελασ- γίαν φησὶν Ἔφορος κληθῆναι. Argos (Suppl. 634), the land of Pelasgus (Suppl. 250), is meant. — δέξεται : both sense and syntax demand aἱμάξεται (= αἱμαχθήσεται, as Soph. Phil. 48 φυ- λάξεται = φυλαχθήσεται). Cp. Ag. 1589 θανὼν πατρῷον αἱμάξαι πέδον, Pers. 595 αἱμαχθεῖσα δ' ἄρουρα, Eur. H. F. 573 Δίρκης νᾶμα αἱμαχθήσεται. The verse would thus lack the usual caesura; but see on 640, and Introd. p. 26, footnote. - "Αρει : = φόνῳ. – δαμέν- των: sc. αὐτῶν. GMT. 848; H. 972 a. - νυκτιφρουρήτῳ: τῷ νυκτὸς ἐπιτηρή- σαντι, Schol. More exactly night- waking, awake at night. See on 599. αὐχένος καὶ στήθους σφαγή (in ani- mals), Polyaen. viii. 48 τὸ ξίφος καθ- εῖσα διὰ τῆς σφαγῆς, Antonin. Lib- eral. 25 ἐπάταξαν ἑαυτὰς τῇ κερκίδι παρὰ τὴν κλεῖδα καὶ ἀνέρρηξαν τὴν σφαγήν.

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864. With this wish cp. Suppl. 1032 μηδ᾽ ὑπ᾿ ἀνάγκας γάμος ἔλθοι Κυ- θερείας· στυγερῶν πέλοι τόδ᾽ ἆθλον, Xen. Anab. iii. 2. 3 οἶμαι γὰρ ἂν ὑμᾶς τοιαῦτα παθεῖν, οἷα τοὺς ἐχθροὺς οἱ θεοὶ ποιήσειαν.

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866. ἀπαμβλυνθήσεται: ‘ἀπαμβλύ- νειν ut ἀμβλύνειν de impetu animi re- tardato ponitur. Comparatio a retusa ferri acie ducta est. Sic Sept. 715 τεθηγμένον τοί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀπαμβλυνεῖς λόγῳ' (Schütz). Cp. the words of Hypermnestra in Ovid. Her. xiv. 7 esse ream praestat quam sic placuisse parenti; non piget immunes caedis habere ma- nus.

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869 f. Prometheus begins as if about to tell the whole story, but suddenly breaks off. Hence the asyndeton μακροῦ λόγου δεῖ. With μακροῦ λόγου cp. Pers. 713, πάντα γὰρ ἀκούσει μῦθον ἐν βραχεῖ λόγῳ.

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874. διήλθε: like διεῖπε, set forth fully. – Τιτανὶς Θέμις: see on 210.

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875. ὅπως, ὅπη: these are joined, to include every possible circum- stance. For the ellipsis cp. 915. What Prometheus here passes over, the spectator learns in the Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος. 'Io

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877 ff. As a motive for Io's depar- ture, the poet employs a fresh ac- cession of madness (οἶστρος). primos tantum furoris impetus verbis describit, reliquos vero scena egressa spectatoris imaginationi coniciendos relinquit' (Schütz). — ἐλελεῦ: θρηνώ- δες ἐπίφθεγμα, Schol. ἐλελεῦ· ἐπιφώ- νημα πολεμικόν· οἳ δὲ, προαναφώνησις παιανισμοῦ· τίθησι δὲ αὐτὸ Αἰσχύλος ἐπὶ σχετλιασμοῦ ἐν Προμηθεῖ δεσμώτῃ, Hesych. The battle-cry serves to depict the fury of madness. - ὑπό... θάλπουσι: see on 574. In trimeter, Aeschylus nowhere interposes impor- tant words, or several words, between preposition and verb, except in Ag. 1215 and the doubtful passage Sept. 1028. ὑπό here implies inception, "begins to burn." For θάλπειν cp. Αg. 1256 παπαῖ, οἷον τὸ πῦρ· ἐπέρ- χεται δέ μοι, spoken by Casandra, seized with prophetic mania. - σφά- κελος: σπασμὸς τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου, Schol. Cp. Eur. Hipp. 1351 διά μου κεφαλᾶς ᾄσσουσ᾽ ὀδύναι, κατὰ δ᾽ ἐγκέφαλον πηδᾷ σφάκελος. – ἄρδις : ἀκίς, Αἰσχύλος Προ- μηθεῖ δεσμώτῃ, Hesych.

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880. ἄπυρος: the scholiast ex- plains, ἡ πολύπυρος διὰ τὸ σφοδρὸν πά- θος (assuming 'alpha intensivum') ἢ πῦρ μὴ ἔχουσα. The latter inter- pretation, in the sense of 'telum igni non admotum, sine igne factum,' was shown to be right by Schütz and Hermann. 'Adiectivo ἄπυρος telum metaphorice dictum a proprie sic ap- pellato discrevit Aeschylus' (Schütz). Cp. Cho. 493 πέδαις ἄχαλκεύτοις (of Clytaemnestra's entangling noose), Frg. 298, 4 ἄπτεροι πελειάδες (of the Pleiades), Ag. 1258 δίπους λέαινα (of Clytaemnestra), Sept. 64 κῦμα χερσαῖον στρατοῦ, ibid. 942 ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς (the sword), Soph. Trach. 874 βέβηκε Δηιάνειρα τὴν πανυστάτην ὁδῶν ἁπασῶν ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδός, Ο. Τ. 190 ῎Αρεα ... ὃς νῦν ἄχαλκος ἀσπίδων (the pest), Eur. Frg. 598 αἰδοῦς ἀχαλ- κεύτοισιν ἔζευκται πέδαις, Iph. T. 1095 ἄπτερος ὄρνις, Οr. 621 ὑφῆψε δῶμ᾽ ἀνη- φαίστῳ πυρί.

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881. φρένα: see on 361. - For the conception cp. Cho. 165 ὀρχεῖται δὲ καρδία φόβῳ, 1025 πρὸς δὲ καρδίᾳ φόβος ᾄδειν ἕτοιμος, ἡ δ᾽ ὑπορχεῖσθαι κρότῳ, Ag. 996 πρὸς ἐνδίκοις φρεσὶν τελεσφό- ραις δίναις κυκλούμενον κέαρ, Il. vii. 216 Εκτορί τ' αὐτῷ θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσι πάτασσεν.

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883. ἔξω δρόμου φέρομαι: (δρόμος =track) cp. Cho. 1022 ὥσπερ ξὺν ἵπποις ἡνιοστροφῶ δρόμου ἐξωτέρω· φέρουσι γὰρ νικώμενον φρένες δύσαρκτοι, Ag. 1245 ἐκ δρόμου πεσὼν τρέχω. Also Engl. 'be deranged.'

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884. γλώσσης ἀκρατής: cp. The- ogn. 503 οἰνοβαρέω κεφαλήν . γλώσ- σης οὐκέτ᾽ ἐγὼ ταμίης ἡμετέρης, τὸ δὲ δῶμα περιτρέχει, Lucret. iii. 453, clau- dicat ingenium, delirat lin- gua.

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885 f. θολεροί: Hesych. θολερόν· ταραχώδες, ἀκάθ ρτον, βορβορῶδες, τε- ταραγμένον. Cp. Schol. Ai. 206 (θολερῷ χειμῶνη νοσήσας). The adjective sug- gests the mud (κελαινὰν θίνα, Soph. Ant. 589) stirred up from the bottom of the sea by the waves. Io's words are like this; they beat against the billows of madness and are tossed by them at random (εἰκῇ, corresponding to foregoing ἀκρατὴς γλώσσης), so as to be planless and incoherent. παίουσι πρὸς κύμασιν : cp. Eur. Hec. 116 πολλῆς δ᾽ ἔριδος συνέπαισε κλύδων.

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887-906. Third Stasimon. For the dactylo-epitritic rhythms, see on 526. The tranquil reflexions of the chorus contrast agreeably with the turmoil of the preceding scene.

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887. ή σοφός: the scholiast ex- plains that Pittacus is meant, who, when consulted by a man in doubt whether to marry a rich woman, or a poorer one whose rank was the same as his own, directed his ques- tioner to listen to a group of boys who were playing at tops close by. These were heard to cry τὴν καθ᾽ ἑαυ- τὸν ἔλαυνε. Αn epigram of Callima- chus, in Diog. Laert. i. 80, gives τὴν κατὰ σαυτὸν ἔλα. Another scholiast compares Pind. Pyth. ii. 64 χρὴ δὲ καθ᾽ αὑτὸν αἰεὶ παντὸς ὁρᾶν μέτρον, εὐναὶ δὲ παράτροποι ἐς κακότατ᾽ ἀθρόαν ἔβαλον ποτὶ κοῖτον ἰόντα. – In like manner a proverb is introduced in Soph. Ant. 620 σοφίᾳ γὰρ ἔκ του κλει- νὸν ἔπος πέφανται. Cp. Ag. 369 οὐκ ἔφα τις θεοὺς βροτῶν ἀξιοῦσθαι μέλειν κτέ., 750 παλαίφατος δ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς γέρων
λόγος τέτυκται, Cho. 313 δράσαντι πα- θεῖν τριγέρων μῦθος τάδε φωνεῖ. - On the omission of ἦν see Krüger I. § 62, 1, 6.