Aeschylus Eumenides 1032-1047.blass-note-151

929. κατανασσαμένη , middle, housing in my city. 11. 932, 933. The MSS. read

Now τούτων here must refer to the Furies, as αὗται above and τάσδε below: and consequently βαρέων must be wrong, as (1) it is the wrong gender: (2) even if we suppose (with D.) a fem. form βαρεῶν, it clearly is the wrong sense. What Aeschylus means to say is, He who incurs the wrath of the Furies meets with unexpected calamity: the sins of his fathers bring him into their power.

964. ἐπιβριθής , lit. weighing down upon, falling heavily on: i. e. grievous .

1033. βᾶτε δόμῳ , pass into your home, Epic use of the dat. local after verb of motion, e. g. πεδίῳ πέσε (11. 5. 82), κυνέῃ βάλε (7.187).

1034. παῖδες ἄπαιδες , the MSS. reading, could hardly mean childless children, which seems pointless: it might mean evil children, like vᾶes ἄναες: but the real objection to any such word as ἄπαιδες is that here the words in which the Chorus are addressed are specially reverent and honourable. It is best to reject it and then we get rid also of τύχᾳ τε, meaningless and unmetrical, at the end of 1. 1037.

1036. ὠγυγίοισιν , a strange word of obscure origin, meaning ancient.

1040. εὐθύφρονες , ‘righteously minded,' something like the Homeric αἴσιμα εἰδώς, which is also used of persons well disposed. [Of the suggested alterations Hartung's εὔφρονες ἀστοῖς is the best: but there is no need to alter.]

1046. συγκατέβα , has come down to aid, the metaphor being taken from the 'lists' or the contest, as in Cho. 727. APPENDICES. I. LINES 358-9, and 369-70. In the MSS. we have 358-9 κρατερὸν ὄνθ᾽ ὁμοίως μαυροῦμεν ὕφ' (or ἐφ᾿) αἵματος νέου, and 369-70 σφαλερὰ τανυδρόμοις κῶλα δύσφορον ἄταν. As usual, where metrical correspondence so completely fails that even the metrical scheme is uncertain, there is a vast mass of suggestions, most of which are too far from the original either in metre or letters to have a chance of being acceptable, to say nothing of their intrinsic infelicity. The Schol. on 358 says διὰ τὸ νέον αἷμα. τοῦ νεωστὶ εἰργασμένου ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ. This goes far to prove that he read αἵματος νέου (whether with or without ὑπύ) and explained it 'by reason of the new deed of blood,' i. e. Orestes' murder of his mother. On 369 the Schol. clearly has the MSS. reading, but he gives two interpretations, one making κῶλα apposition to ποδὸς ἀκμάν (as is no doubt right), and the other making the last two lines a new sentence. The two best suggestions are Weil's, which I have adopted in the text, and Paley's. 1. Paley reads 358 κρατερὸν ὄντα *περ ὅμως μαυροῦμεν *νέον αἷμα [from an old suggestion of Hermann's], and 369 σφαλερὰ * καὶ τανυδρόμοις κῶλα, δύσφορον ἄταν. Understanding the first passage thus: '[Pursuing after him] though he be mighty, we waste away the new blood stain,' i.e. we persecute him till in time the murder stain grows faint, as Orestes says (ἀμβλὺν ἤδη 238, and βρίζει γὰρ αἷμα καὶ μαραίνεται 280). This makes a fairly good sense, but is open to the following objections:- (1) That the MS. reading ὕφ᾽ αἵματος νέου and the Schol. are completely unaccounted for. One hardly sees how νέον αίμα could have got so corrupted. (2) That the Furies would certainly not say that they 'wore away' the stain of blood, though Orestes might naturally use such a APPENDICES. plea. The very point of the Furies' exultation all through is that there is no expiation, even in Hades: 'though he fly under the earth he never is free' 175: 'in death he is not over free' 346: and their office is 'a rugged path for dead and living alike' 387. 2. Weil's reading 358 κρατερὸν ὄνθ᾽ ὅμως ἀμαυρ- οῦμεν αἵματος νέου, 369 σφαλερὰ τανυδρόμοις * ὅμως κῶλα δύσφορον * μάταν, has these advantages on the other hand : (1) The gen. αἵματος is kept; and the Scholiast's note is accounted for: indeed, better accounted for than if the MSS. ὑπό were retained, as then there would be no need of a comment on so easy a phrase. (2) ὅμως in 362 is better than καί, as it would easily drop out after -όμοις of the word before. (3) μάταν is a very easy alteration, since the previous word δύσφορον ends in -v. (4) The trochaic metre is peculiarly characteristic of this scheme; see lines 331, 332, 333, 354, 366, 376, 380, 388, 396. Of the other suggestions perhaps the best is one of that usually reckless emendator Burges, who reads μαυροῦμεν νεόαιμον, 'we waste him away stained with new blood. This would account for the first Schol. But there is no trace of the word νεόαιμος. II. The relation of the Medicean Group of MSS. to the Venetian Group. THE question whether the three MSS. which are called above the Venetian group, i.e. Flo. Farn. Ven. (see Introduction, p. 26) have authority independent of the Medicean is obviously important for the purposes of text criticism. We will call the Medicean M, and the Venetian group FFV. It is clear that there are four cases of error which bear upon the argument:- (1) Where FFV have the same corruption as M. (2) Where FFV differ from M and both are wrong. (3) Where M is right and FFV wrong. (4) Where M is wrong and FFV right. It is also clear that if FFV have independent authority, i.e. if they do not spring either from M or a not remote ancestor of M, we should expect to find (4) relatively considerable. If (4) were found to con- APPENDICES. sist of a few trivial cases, and (1) were numerous and important, then the conclusion would be that FFV were not independent, but that the better readings were due to emendation. That the fact is so is tolerably clear from the following tables :- (1) M wrong, FFV wrong: error the same. 18. χρόνοις 27. πλείστους 59. πόνων 105. μοῖρα προσ. 137. οὐδ᾽ 142. εἰδώμεθ᾽ 176. δ᾽ ὧν 177. ἐκείνου 189. λευσμόν 200. εἰς... ὡς 213. ᾐρκέσω 220. γενέσθαι 316. ἀλιτρῶν 336. θανάτων... αὐτουργίαις 422. τοῦτο . σφαγῆς .. 429. θέλει 446. ἐφεζομένη 461. κρύψασα 472. φόνους . -του 473. ὅμως περῶντας κ.τ.λ. 481. δυσπήματ᾿ 483. ὁρκίων αἱρουμένους 489. 536. πᾶσι φίλος 550. ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ 557. δυσπα- λεῖται 576. δόμων 580. τοῦδε 684. δ᾽ ἑκάστων δαίμονας 733. ἀμφίβολος · 812. ἀντιπαθῆ 727. 816. ἐπεσσύμενος 838. κατὰ γᾶν 907. βροτῶν 954. κρύων 960. τῶν 964. μεγάκοινοι 967. πάντα 1007. ἀτήριον 1010. ἡμεῖς ΙΟΙΙ. μέτοικοι 1034. εὐθύφρονι. (2) M wrong, FFV wrong: errors different. Μ. FFV. 23. ἀναστροφά ἀναστροφαί 54. δία βίαν 186. οὐ καραινιστῆρες οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἀνιστῆρες 312. οἵδ᾽ οἴμεθ᾽ εἶναι οἶδ᾽ οἶμαι θεῖναι 424. ἐπιρροιζεῖ ἐπιρροιζεῖν 450. νοθήλου βοτοῦ ὀθνείου βροτοῦ 552. περαιβάδαν 710. αἰδουμένοις παρβάδαν αἱρουμένοις 845. δαμαίων 871. τε γᾶν 877. δαμίαν 878. δόλω 908. εὐθενοῦντας 925. ἐξαμβρόσαι 934. ἀμπλακήματα δαμέαν γᾶν δαμέαν δόλον εὐστενοῦντα ἐξαμϋρόσαι ἁμαρτήματα 942. εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν εὐθην. 1026. θησηΐδος θρησηΐδος. (3) M right, FFV wrong. FFV read: 58. ἥτι γαῖα 201. δῆτα τοῦτο 222. οὔτοι θυσαγκ. 286. γε διδάσκων στένω 100. παθοῦσά γ᾽ 170. σὸν οἶκον 232. ἄρ᾽ ἥξω 256. ἀτίμας 262. 329. μένος 396. τάξιν γ' 407. 426. ἤ τινος 431. πέλῃ 435. σέβομαι corrected to σέβοιμεν V σεβοίμεθ' FF. 458. ἔφθηθ᾽ 495. εὐχαρίᾳ 577- APPENDICES. ἐφεστίων 658. κεκλημένη 678. ὧν 688. την 717. σφήλεται 888. ἐπιρρέπειν 959. βιότου 846. δόλῳ 910. δὲ omit 971. ἐποπτᾷ (-ᾶς, -ᾶ). (4) M wrong: FFV right. 706. ἐγρήγορον 859. θηγάνων 881. καλοῦμαι 914. τρεπτῶν 919. νόμον M FFV M FFV 224. δ᾽ ἐπάλλας δὲ Παλλάς 683. αἰγέῳ Αἰγέως 268. τείνεις τίνῃς 950. ἐπικρανεῖ ἐπικραίνει 458. οὕτως οὗτος 981. ποινὰς ποινᾶς 673. τ᾿ ἄπιστα τὰ πιστά 988. ἄρα ἆρα. From the number and character of the errors in (1) and the very obvious and trifling corrections in (4) we should infer that FFV were not independent of M: while (2) and (3) would show that FFV were rather carelessly copied and unskilfully emended. The evidence is of the same character in the other plays: but the Eumenides alone is sufficient to make the conclusion highly probable. GENERAL AND GRAMMATICAL INDEX. ABSTRACT, of persons, 487, 711. Accumulation, 329. Adj. compound, fem., 77. for adv., 223. Aeolic form, 620. Allusion, political, 673, 765. Anachronism, 570. Article demonst., 2. Attribute divided, 653, 768. ἀγοραῖος, 973. ἀγχόνη, 746. αἰανός, αἰανής, 416. αἰγίς, 404. ἀκταίνω, 36. ἀλλὰ γάρ, 797. ἄλλως τε καί (ἐπεί omitted), 473. ἀντίκεντρα, 136, 466. ἀντίπαις, 38. αὐθέντης, 212. αὐονά, 332. Darbarous legends, 5, 724. Birth festivals, 7. Blood-relationship, in murder, 605. Caesura absent, 26. CASES AND PREPOSITIONS. Nominative :Pendens, 100, 360, 478, 783. Accusative :Whole and part, 88. Provisional, 685. With μετελθεῖν, 230. After ἕζομαι, 3. verbals, 553. Genitive:With neg. adj., 704, 893. Possessor, 738. Attracted, 857. Respect, provisional, 913. After καταστροφαί, 490. ἀνημέρους, 803. With πρός (for agent), 100, 593. ἀπὸ γνώμης, 674. ὑπό, of accompaniment, 1006. Dative:- ἐν σοί, 469. Occasion, 718. After ἄφικτος, 776. Crime leads to crime, 534. γαμόρῳ, Doric form, 890. γε μήν, 51. γε μὲν δή, 419. γε μέντοι, 591. Destiny thwarted by man, 714. δé-clause contains predicate, боз. δεδόκηκεν, 309. δ᾽ οὖν, 226. διάγω, 993. δίκαι, 224. Earth prophetic, 2. Ekkuklema, 63. GENERAL AND GRAMMATICAL INDEX. Ending, light, 238. Epic forms and usages :-Article as demonst., 2, 137, 174, 340, 357, 462, 484, 690. relat., 336. Dat. with verbs of motion, 1033. δέ of apodosis, 887. ἐv after verbs of motion, 781. Relat. demonst., 7. Subj. with εἰ, 234. relat., 211, 336, 661. Syncope, 262, 768. Tmesis, 378, 434, 845. ἄν omitted, 211. ·βιβῶντα, 76. ἕκατι, 759. κεκασμένος, 766. ὁρᾶσθαι, 142. ὅστε rel., 25. ὄφρα ἄν, 337· ὔμμε, 620. χύμενος, 263. ὡς for ὥστε, 36, 427, 799, 895. ὥστε for ὡς, 628. Eumenides not winged, 51, 250. Euphemism, 956. ἐγκατιλλώπτω, 113. ἐξαίρετος, 402. ἐπίστᾳ, 86. ἐπίσταμαι, double const., 277. ἐποπτεύω, 220, 224. ἕρμαιος, 947. Grotesque argument, 647, 660. Hiatus with τί, 902. Ironical plainness, 122. Justice of nether powers, 273- καὶ δή, 'suppose,' 894. καὶ ταῦτα, with verb, 112. καρανιστήρ, 186. καρανιο κατηρτυκώς, 473. κτίζω, 17. Marriage, high ideal, 217. Masc. and fem. subst. together, 319, 186, 803. Meiosis, 866. Metaphors, 78, 127, 137, 160, 181, 196, 238, 245, 280, 404, 555, 803, 910, 998. -μα suffix active, 706. μὲν οὖν, 38. MOODS AND TENSES. Indicative:Vivid present, 592, 892, 950. Aor. gnomic, 750. Subjunctive :With ὡς ἄν, 33. εἰ, 234. ἥτις, 211. Optative :Indef., 618. with primary time, 726. Infinitive :And acc. of prayer, 30. Epexegetic, 34. Consec., 488. With πιφαύσκω, 620. After φέροντα, 831. Participle:Conditional, 719. Olive branch, in supplication, 43. Oxymoron, 491. ὀμφαλός, 40. ős demonst., 7. οὐ with αὐχεῖν, 561. Periaktoi, 234. Phratries, 656. Plural, generalising, 151. Plural verb, sing. nom., 142. Preposition displaced, 76. πολισσοῦχος, 775. πρεσβεύω, Ι. προστρόπαιος, 41, 234, 237. GENERAL AND GRAMMATICAL INDEX. προτέλεια, 835- προφήτης, 19. Voting, 749. Wine, not offered to Eum., 107, Rhetorical repetition, 170. 860. Sacred way to Delphi, 13. Subject changed, 480. Suffering brings wisdom, 516. συμφέρω, 848. σωκεῖν, 36. τέλος, 434. Wrestling, three falls, 589. ὑπίσχομαι, 804. χλοῦνις, 188. ὠγύγιος, 1036. ὥστε superfluous, 202, 228. E AIGEUS, 683. Amazon, 628. Arai, 417. Argos, 290. Bromios, 24. INDEX OF NAMES. Leto, 323. Libya, 292. Loxias, 19. Moirai, 172, 724. Delos, 9. Delphos, 16. Pallas Pronaia, 21. Pan, 943. Parnasus, 11. Peitho, 885. Erechtheus, 855. Pelops, 703. Pentheus, 26. Pheres, 723. Gaia, 2. Phineus, 50. Gorgones, 48. Phoibe, 7. Phoibos, 8. Pleistos, 27. Harpies, 50. Hephaistos, 13. Skamandros, 398. Here Teleia, 214. Skuthai, 703. Ixion, 441, 718. Klytaemnestra, 116. Korykis, 22. Kranaos, 101Ι. Kronos, 641. Tartarus, 72. Themis, 2. Theseus, 402. Titanis, 6. Triton, 293. Tyrsenikos, 567. THE END. 66

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: adscriptum in Flor. Chori nomen in M. Aug. Par. Ven. Ald. Turn. Nulla personae nota in Rob. βᾶτε δόμῳ Wellauerus. Μ. (vel ) Aug. Par. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Rob. Turn.

mvp-comment-773-1 Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες non dicuntur Furiae quod prole careant, quae Schutzii et O. Mülleri opinio fuit, sed intelliguntur grandaevae. Ita v. 72.

. Deinde ὑπ᾽ εὔφρονι πομπᾷ: Α. Flor. Ceteri . Ludovicus Dindorfius in Stephani Thes. vol. III. p. 2503. scribendum coniecit . [ recepi.

mvp-comment-774-1 εὐφαμεῖτε δὲ:

Flor. Deinde libri . Scribendum esse χωρῖται indicavi in Elem. doctr. metr. p. 435. Pluribus exemplis hoc vocabulum illustrat Stephanus Byzantius in v. . Intelliguntur autem incolae regionis vel cives. Sed fuerunt fortasse qui indicari crederent, quandoquidem Hesychius scribit . Ceterum praecedentia, non habita ratione versus intercalaris, cum sequentibus ita nexa sunt, .

mvp-comment-775-1 ὠγυγίοισιν:

Τurn. Sed ceteri omnes recte .

mvp-comment-776-1 τιμαῖς καὶ θυσίαις περίσεπτα τυχοῦσαι: Libri

. Prius iam olim delevi. Deinde M. Par. Aug. sic ut super primi vocabuli duo puncta sint (hoc modo: ), quibus incerta scriptura indicatur. sie G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Rob. Ald. Turn. Musgravius . Ea emendatione, ut simplicissima, recepta, scripsi . Sed incerta est huius versus emendatio. Possunt enim multa alia excogitari. Quod in Opusc. VI. 2. p. 125. scribendum conieci , servato in strophico versu , dactylico-que numero ad paeonicum progrediente, prorsus intolerabile visum est Schoemanno. Sed quum saepius tamquam insigne quid commemorentur ardentes faces (v. 987. 1004. 1011. 1021. 1024.), hic quoque ignium honoris, cuius compotes factae sunt Eumenides, aptissime fieret mentio. Ipse Schoemannus scribendum putavit . Verum Aeschylus dixisset, puto, , neque posuisset. Melius scriberetur , aut .

mvp-comment-777-1 εὐφαμεῖτε δὲ:

Flor. πανδαμεί: M. Aug. Par. G. Ald. Rob. Τurn. Ven. Flor. Farn.

mvp-comment-778-1 ἵλαοι δὲ καὶ τῇδ᾽ εὔφρονες γᾷ: Libri

. Scribendum .

mvp-comment-779-1 σὺν, quo libri carent, ego inserui.

mvp-comment-780-1 λάμπα: Libri

, sed in M. in litura ab alia manu scriptum est. Scribendum erat . V. ad v. 379. Deinde τερπόμεναι καθ᾽ ὁδόν: libri , nisi quod G. interpunctionem post omittit. Scribendum est , omisso . Id etiam Boissonadus vidit.

mvp-comment-781-1 ὀλολύξατε G. Ald. ἐπὶ μολπαῖς:

Rob.

mvp-comment-782-1 ἐς τὸ πᾶν dictum ut

ν. 662. ἔνδαιδες οἴκων M. Aug. G. Ald. Turn. Rob. Ven. Flor. Farn. V. Lob. Paralip. p. 143.

mvp-comment-783-1 Παλλάδος ἀστοῖς· Ζεὺς ὁ πανόπτας οὕτω Μοῖρά τε συγκατέβα:

M. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Farn. Rob. Ald. Turn. Deinde Rob. Aug. G. Ven. Flor. Ald. Turn. Scribendum est, ut Musgravius quoque partim intellexit, Pax in omne tempus cum lumine taedarum in sedibus (Furiarum) Palladis civibus: Iuppiter et Parca sic consenserunt.

mvp-comment-783-2 Post v. 1027. in M. subscriptum ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΣΥΝ ΘΩ ΤΕΛΟΣ. In G. τέλος εὐμενίδες δράματος αἰσχύλου. In Ven. Flor. ἰδοὺ πάλιν γε τέρμα τῶν εὐμενίδων.

mvp-comment-302-1 πρέπῃ] In order that the Erinyes, in their new character of Eumenides, may be known henceforth for causing circumstances favourable to the manly character of the citizens. The allusion is perhaps to v. 875.

mvp-comment-303-1 The concluding hymn, sung by escorts who with the goddess head the procession, is very corrupt. In the first verse ἐν δόμῳ should perhaps be δόμους, go to your abodes; in the second, the dactylic metre suggests the omission of Νυκτός. Ιη ν. 990 περίσεπται τύχα τε (τύχαι τε Med.) is hard to correct; perhaps θυσίαισιν ὑπαὶ πυρίσεπτοι. In 996 εἰσόπιν and ἴτων is Linwood's conjecture for ἐς τὸ πᾶν οἴκων. Let libations made by torchlight (i.e. libationbearers) follow behind.

mvp-comment-304-1 συγκατέβα] Zeus and Destiny have thus together entered the contest for the citizens of Pallas. Cf. Cho. 713

mvp-comment-305-1 ἐπὶ μολπαῖς] Raise a joyful shout after the strains. Probably the foregoing hymn was sung in parts, which are called μολπαί. So in Cho. 142

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mvp-comment-318-1 αἱ προπομποί.

mvp-comment-319-1 μετὰ λαμπάδων.

mvp-comment-538-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 322

mvp-comment-538-2 δόμῳ d. h. in eure künftige Behausung. Über den Dativ Krüger II § 46, 2, 4 . παῖδες ἄπαιδες, vgl. 69 Νυκτός παλαιαὶ παῖδες, Kinder der Nacht, aber keine Kinder mehr, sondern Greisinnen. Vgl. ἄπολιν πόλιν 460. Das Ephymnion unterbricht den Satz; denn das folgende γᾶς ὑπὸ κεύθεσιν κτέ. schliefst sich an βᾶτε πομπᾷ an.

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mvp-comment-539-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 322

mvp-comment-539-3 τιμαῖς περίσεπτα, einen durch Ehren und Opfer hochgefeierten Aufenthalt. Über den Akk. zu Cho. 707 .

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mvp-comment-540-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 322

mvp-comment-540-3 δεῦρ᾽ ἴτε d. i. folgt uns nach. Für λαμπάδι vermutet um der Responsion willen Schömann πεύκα, während Wieseler 1047 ἐς τάδε für οὕτω schreiben will.

mvp-comment-541-1 Wecklein 1888, p. 322

mvp-comment-541-2 ἐπὶ μολπαῖς s. v. a. μολπηδόν, vgl. Eur Herc. 348 αἴλινον μὲν ἐπ᾿ εὐτυχεῖ μολπᾷ Φοίβος ἰαχεί, Soph. El. 108 ἐπὶ κωκυτῷ θυρῶν ἠχὼ πᾶσι προφωνεῖν. πρὸ

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mvp-comment-542-2 Wecklein 1888, p. 322

mvp-comment-542-3 Erweiset euch den Spenden der Bürger der Pallas gegenüber als volle Huldinnen. Zu Ag. 517 . Zu Ζεὺς ο πανόπτας vgl. Suppl. 145

, Soph. Oed. K. 1086 là Zev, návταρχε θεῶν, παντόπτα. Der Text dieser Stelle ist unsicher, s. Anhang.

βᾶτε δόμῳ , pass into your home, Epic use of the dat. local after verb of motion, e. g. πεδίῳ πέσε (11. 5. 82), κυνέῃ βάλε (7.187).

παῖδες ἄπαιδες , the MSS. reading, could hardly mean childless children, which seems pointless: it might mean evil children, like vᾶes ἄναες: but the real objection to any such word as ἄπαιδες is that here the words in which the Chorus are addressed are specially reverent and honourable. It is best to reject it and then we get rid also of τύχᾳ τε, meaningless and unmetrical, at the end of l. 1037

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ὠγυγίοισιν , a strange word of obscure origin, meaning ancient.

εὐθύφρονες , righteously minded, something like the Homeric αἴσιμα εἰδώς, which is also used of persons well disposed. [Of the suggested alterations Hartung's εὔφρονες ἀστοῖς is the best: but there is no need to alter.]

mvp-sidgwick-473-1-1 Hermann's ξύν is wanted for sense as well as metre: else it would mean rejoicing in the torch, which is a much poorer meaning.

mvp-sidgwick-474-1-1 This line is thoroughly corrupt and it is hopeless to attempt to restore it with any confidence: I take Linwood's conjecture (adopted by H. P. and others), which is ingenious enough: Hermann translates, Let Peace follow with the light of the torch : or σπονδαί may be quite simply 'libations, the natural sign of reconciliation and joy.

συγκατέβα , has come down to aid, the metaphor being taken from the lists or the contest, as in Cho. 727 . APPENDICES. I. LINES 358-9, and 369-70. In the MSS. we have 358-9 κρατερὸν ὄνθ᾽ ὁμοίως μαυροῦμεν ὕφ' (or ἐφ᾿) αἵματος νέου, and 369-70 σφαλερὰ τανυδρόμοις κῶλα δύσφορον ἄταν. As usual, where metrical correspondence so completely fails that even the metrical scheme is uncertain, there is a vast mass of suggestions, most of which are too far from the original either in metre or letters to have a chance of being acceptable, to say nothing of their intrinsic infelicity. The Schol. on 358 says διὰ τὸ νέον αἷμα. τοῦ νεωστὶ εἰργασμένου ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ. This goes far to prove that he read αἵματος νέου (whether with or without ὑπύ) and explained it by reason of the new deed of blood, i. e. Orestes' murder of his mother. On 369 the Schol. clearly has the MSS. reading, but he gives two interpretations, one making κῶλα apposition to ποδὸς ἀκμάν (as is no doubt right), and the other making the last two lines a new sentence. The two best suggestions are Weil's, which I have adopted in the text, and Paley's. 1. Paley reads 358 κρατερὸν ὄντα *περ ὅμως μαυροῦμεν *νέον αἷμα [from an old suggestion of Hermann's], and 369 σφαλερὰ * καὶ τανυδρόμοις κῶλα, δύσφορον ἄταν. Understanding the first passage thus: '[Pursuing after him] though he be mighty, we waste away the new blood stain,' i.e. we persecute him till in time the murder stain grows faint, as Orestes says (ἀμβλὺν ἤδη 238, and βρίζει γὰρ αἷμα καὶ μαραίνεται 280). This makes a fairly good sense, but is open to the following objections:- (1) That the MS. reading ὕφ᾽ αἵματος νέου and the Schol. are completely unaccounted for. One hardly sees how νέον αίμα could have got so corrupted. (2) That the Furies would certainly not say that they wore away the stain of blood, though Orestes might naturally use such a APPENDICES. plea. The very point of the Furies' exultation all through is that there is no expiation, even in Hades: though he fly under the earth he never is free 175: in death he is not over free 346: and their office is a rugged path for dead and living alike 387. 2. Weil's reading 358 κρατερὸν ὄνθ᾽ ὅμως ἀμαυρ- οῦμεν αἵματος νέου, 369 σφαλερὰ τανυδρόμοις * ὅμως κῶλα δύσφορον * μάταν, has these advantages on the other hand : (1) The gen. αἵματος is kept; and the Scholiast's note is accounted for: indeed, better accounted for than if the MSS. ὑπό were retained, as then there would be no need of a comment on so easy a phrase. (2) ὅμως in 362 is better than καί, as it would easily drop out after -όμοις of the word before. (3) μάταν is a very easy alteration, since the previous word δύσφορον ends in -v. (4) The trochaic metre is peculiarly characteristic of this scheme; see lines 331, 332, 333, 354, 366, 376, 380, 388, 396. Of the other suggestions perhaps the best is one of that usually reckless emendator Burges, who reads μαυροῦμεν νεόαιμον, 'we waste him away stained with new blood. This would account for the first Schol. But there is no trace of the word νεόαιμος. II. The relation of the Medicean Group of MSS. to the Venetian Group. THE question whether the three MSS. which are called above the Venetian group, i.e. Flo. Farn. Ven. (see Introduction, p. 26) have authority independent of the Medicean is obviously important for the purposes of text criticism. We will call the Medicean M, and the Venetian group FFV. It is clear that there are four cases of error which bear upon the argument:- (1) Where FFV have the same corruption as M. (2) Where FFV differ from M and both are wrong. (3) Where M is right and FFV wrong. (4) Where M is wrong and FFV right. It is also clear that if FFV have independent authority, i.e. if they do not spring either from M or a not remote ancestor of M, we should expect to find (4) relatively considerable. If (4) were found to con- APPENDICES. sist of a few trivial cases, and (1) were numerous and important, then the conclusion would be that FFV were not independent, but that the better readings were due to emendation. That the fact is so is tolerably clear from the following tables :- (1) M wrong, FFV wrong: error the same. 18. χρόνοις 27. πλείστους 59. πόνων 105. μοῖρα προσ. 137. οὐδ᾽ 142. εἰδώμεθ᾽ 176. δ᾽ ὧν 177. ἐκείνου 189. λευσμόν 200. εἰς... ὡς 213. ᾐρκέσω 220. γενέσθαι 316. ἀλιτρῶν 336. θανάτων... αὐτουργίαις 422. τοῦτο . σφαγῆς .. 429. θέλει 446. ἐφεζομένη 461. κρύψασα 472. φόνους . -του 473. ὅμως περῶντας κ.τ.λ. 481. δυσπήματ᾿ 483. ὁρκίων αἱρουμένους 489. 536. πᾶσι φίλος 550. ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ 557. δυσπα- λεῖται 576. δόμων 580. τοῦδε 684. δ᾽ ἑκάστων δαίμονας 733. ἀμφίβολος · 812. ἀντιπαθῆ 727. 816. ἐπεσσύμενος 838. κατὰ γᾶν 907. βροτῶν 954. κρύων 960. τῶν 964. μεγάκοινοι 967. πάντα 1007. ἀτήριον 1010. ἡμεῖς ΙΟΙΙ. μέτοικοι 1034. εὐθύφρονι. (2) M wrong, FFV wrong: errors different. Μ. FFV. 23. ἀναστροφά ἀναστροφαί 54. δία βίαν 186. οὐ καραινιστῆρες οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἀνιστῆρες 312. οἵδ᾽ οἴμεθ᾽ εἶναι οἶδ᾽ οἶμαι θεῖναι 424. ἐπιρροιζεῖ ἐπιρροιζεῖν 450. νοθήλου βοτοῦ ὀθνείου βροτοῦ 552. περαιβάδαν 710. αἰδουμένοις παρβάδαν αἱρουμένοις 845. δαμαίων 871. τε γᾶν 877. δαμίαν 878. δόλω 908. εὐθενοῦντας 925. ἐξαμβρόσαι 934. ἀμπλακήματα δαμέαν γᾶν δαμέαν δόλον εὐστενοῦντα ἐξαμϋρόσαι ἁμαρτήματα 942. εὐθενοῦντ᾽ ἄγαν εὐθην. 1026. θησηΐδος θρησηΐδος. (3) M right, FFV wrong. FFV read: 58. ἥτι γαῖα 201. δῆτα τοῦτο 222. οὔτοι θυσαγκ. 286. γε διδάσκων στένω 100. παθοῦσά γ᾽ 170. σὸν οἶκον 232. ἄρ᾽ ἥξω 256. ἀτίμας 262. 329. μένος 396. τάξιν γ' 407. 426. ἤ τινος 431. πέλῃ 435. σέβομαι corrected to σέβοιμεν V σεβοίμεθ' FF. 458. ἔφθηθ᾽ 495. εὐχαρίᾳ 577- APPENDICES. ἐφεστίων 658. κεκλημένη 678. ὧν 688. την 717. σφήλεται 888. ἐπιρρέπειν 959. βιότου 846. δόλῳ 910. δὲ omit 971. ἐποπτᾷ (-ᾶς, -ᾶ). (4) M wrong: FFV right. 706. ἐγρήγορον 859. θηγάνων 881. καλοῦμαι 914. τρεπτῶν 919. νόμον M FFV M FFV 224. δ᾽ ἐπάλλας δὲ Παλλάς 683. αἰγέῳ Αἰγέως 268. τείνεις τίνῃς 950. ἐπικρανεῖ ἐπικραίνει 458. οὕτως οὗτος 981. ποινὰς ποινᾶς 673. τ᾿ ἄπιστα τὰ πιστά 988. ἄρα ἆρα. From the number and character of the errors in (1) and the very obvious and trifling corrections in (4) we should infer that FFV were not independent of M: while (2) and (3) would show that FFV were rather carelessly copied and unskilfully emended. The evidence is of the same character in the other plays: but the Eumenides alone is sufficient to make the conclusion highly probable. GENERAL AND GRAMMATICAL INDEX. ABSTRACT, of persons, 487, 711. Accumulation, 329. Adj. compound, fem., 77. for adv., 223. Aeolic form, 620. Allusion, political, 673, 765. Anachronism, 570. Article demonst., 2. Attribute divided, 653, 768. ἀγοραῖος, 973. ἀγχόνη, 746. αἰανός, αἰανής, 416. αἰγίς, 404. ἀκταίνω, 36. ἀλλὰ γάρ, 797. ἄλλως τε καί (ἐπεί omitted), 473. ἀντίκεντρα, 136, 466. ἀντίπαις, 38. αὐθέντης, 212. αὐονά, 332. Darbarous legends, 5, 724. Birth festivals, 7. Blood-relationship, in murder, 605. Caesura absent, 26. CASES AND PREPOSITIONS. Nominative :Pendens, 100, 360, 478, 783. Accusative :Whole and part, 88. Provisional, 685. With μετελθεῖν, 230. After ἕζομαι, 3. verbals, 553. Genitive:With neg. adj., 704, 893. Possessor, 738. Attracted, 857. Respect, provisional, 913. After καταστροφαί, 490. ἀνημέρους, 803. With πρός (for agent), 100, 593. ἀπὸ γνώμης, 674. ὑπό, of accompaniment, 1006. Dative:- ἐν σοί, 469. Occasion, 718. After ἄφικτος, 776. Crime leads to crime, 534. γαμόρῳ, Doric form, 890. γε μήν, 51. γε μὲν δή, 419. γε μέντοι, 591. Destiny thwarted by man, 714. δé-clause contains predicate, боз. δεδόκηκεν, 309. δ᾽ οὖν, 226. διάγω, 993. δίκαι, 224. Earth prophetic, 2. Ekkuklema, 63. GENERAL AND GRAMMATICAL INDEX. Ending, light, 238. Epic forms and usages :-Article as demonst., 2, 137, 174, 340, 357, 462, 484, 690. relat., 336. Dat. with verbs of motion, 1033. δέ of apodosis, 887. ἐv after verbs of motion, 781. Relat. demonst., 7. Subj. with εἰ, 234. relat., 211, 336, 661. Syncope, 262, 768. Tmesis, 378, 434, 845. ἄν omitted, 211. ·βιβῶντα, 76. ἕκατι, 759. κεκασμένος, 766. ὁρᾶσθαι, 142. ὅστε rel., 25. ὄφρα ἄν, 337· ὔμμε, 620. χύμενος, 263. ὡς for ὥστε, 36, 427, 799, 895. ὥστε for ὡς, 628. Eumenides not winged, 51, 250. Euphemism, 956. ἐγκατιλλώπτω, 113. ἐξαίρετος, 402. ἐπίστᾳ, 86. ἐπίσταμαι, double const., 277. ἐποπτεύω, 220, 224. ἕρμαιος, 947. Grotesque argument, 647, 660. Hiatus with τί, 902. Ironical plainness, 122. Justice of nether powers, 273- καὶ δή, suppose, 894. καὶ ταῦτα, with verb, 112. καρανιστήρ, 186. καρανιο κατηρτυκώς, 473. κτίζω, 17. Marriage, high ideal, 217. Masc. and fem. subst. together, 319, 186, 803. Meiosis, 866. Metaphors, 78, 127, 137, 160, 181, 196, 238, 245, 280, 404, 555, 803, 910, 998. -μα suffix active, 706. μὲν οὖν, 38. MOODS AND TENSES. Indicative:Vivid present, 592, 892, 950. Aor. gnomic, 750. Subjunctive :With ὡς ἄν, 33. εἰ, 234. ἥτις, 211. Optative :Indef., 618. with primary time, 726. Infinitive :And acc. of prayer, 30. Epexegetic, 34. Consec., 488. With πιφαύσκω, 620. After φέροντα, 831. Participle:Conditional, 719. Olive branch, in supplication, 43. Oxymoron, 491. ὀμφαλός, 40. ős demonst., 7. οὐ with αὐχεῖν, 561. Periaktoi, 234. Phratries, 656. Plural, generalising, 151. Plural verb, sing. nom., 142. Preposition displaced, 76. πολισσοῦχος, 775. πρεσβεύω, Ι. προστρόπαιος, 41, 234, 237. GENERAL AND GRAMMATICAL INDEX. προτέλεια, 835- προφήτης, 19. Voting, 749. Wine, not offered to Eum., 107, Rhetorical repetition, 170. 860. Sacred way to Delphi, 13. Subject changed, 480. Suffering brings wisdom, 516. συμφέρω, 848. σωκεῖν, 36. τέλος, 434. Wrestling, three falls, 589. ὑπίσχομαι, 804. χλοῦνις, 188. ὠγύγιος, 1036. ὥστε superfluous, 202, 228. E AIGEUS, 683. Amazon, 628. Arai, 417. Argos, 290. Bromios, 24. INDEX OF NAMES. Leto, 323. Libya, 292. Loxias, 19. Moirai, 172, 724. Delos, 9. Delphos, 16. Pallas Pronaia, 21. Pan, 943. Parnasus, 11. Peitho, 885. Erechtheus, 855. Pelops, 703. Pentheus, 26. Pheres, 723. Gaia, 2. Phineus, 50. Gorgones, 48. Phoibe, 7. Phoibos, 8. Pleistos, 27. Harpies, 50. Hephaistos, 13. Skamandros, 398. Here Teleia, 214. Skuthai, 703. Ixion, 441, 718. Klytaemnestra, 116. Korykis, 22. Kranaos, 101Ι. Kronos, 641. Tartarus, 72. Themis, 2. Theseus, 402. Titanis, 6. Triton, 293. Tyrsenikos, 567. THE END. 66