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Μέν
on the one hand contrast 110
καὶ πάντα κτὲ
and all things etc.., so again anacoluthic;
πολλά δή
many things indeed as at 144.
Ch. 897
.
Ἐλείξατε
you licked, like thirsty dogs (Paley), cf. 131.
Ch. 924
.
Χοάς τε
and libations corresponding to
καὶ δεῖπνα
and meals, but this receives a new finite verb with
ἔθυον
they sacrificed.
Ἄοινοι
wineless the scholiast explains:
οἶνος γὰρ οὐ σπένδεται Ἐρινύσιν
for wine is not poured to the Erinyes, and better still
Soph. OC. 100
. 469 ff. (only water and honey; 481
μηδὲ προσφέρειν μέθυ
nor to offer wine); see also the scholia on this.
Μειλίγματα
soothing offerings
Ch. 15
;
νηφάλια
wineless offerings with the final syllables as a resolved arsis, like
μαρτύρια παρῆν
witnesses were present 797,
Ch. 1
Ἑρμῆ χθόνιε πατρῶι᾿ κτἑ.
Hermes of the underworld, ancestral, etc.
. (other examples in Paley on V. 797).
108
νυκτίσεμνος
night-revered is surely one word, like
νυκτίπλαγκτος νυκτίφοιτος νυκτιφρούρητος
night-wandering, night-roaming, night-watched.
Ἐσχάρα
hearth can and will be a separate altar here (
ἐσχάρα Φοίβου
hearth of Phoebus
Pers. 205
; see also
Eum. 806
), which could easily be set up for the purpose; but the special thing is the hour (Schol.
ἐν τῶι μεσονυκτίωι μόναις Ἐρινύσιν ἀπάρχονται
at midnight they begin the offerings to the Erinyes alone).
Ὥραν
hour (and
ἀωρίαν
untimely hour) in the time expression always thus in the accusative,
Eurip. Bacch. 723
τὴν τεταγμένην ὥραν
the appointed hour
, Aristot.
Πολ
Pol..
᾿Αθ
Ath.. 30 end
τὴν ὥραν τὴν προρρηθεῖσαν
the hour that had been announced, Gramm. of New Testament Greek § 34, 8 p. 97² (=
εἰς ὥραν
at the hour, at the hour).Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. Friedrich Blass. Berlin. 1907.