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Νεοθήλου βοτοῦ
of a newly born animal of the
χοῖρος
piglet, which comes fresh from the
θηλή
teat (cf.
εὔθηλος
with good teats, Ddf., and
χοῖρος εὐθηλούμενος
a piglet with good teats Frg. 321). Wecklein wants
νεοθήλου
newly born, like
Hik. 333
νεοδρέπτους
freshly plucked
, because / - - (word unity in the measure of the ionic a minore), in the 4th and 5th feet does not occur in A.; see, however, (Dindorf Po. Scaen. Praef. 34)
Πολυφόντου βία
the might of Polyphontes
Sept. 498
.
Πολυνείκους βία
the might of Polyneices(
ν
n) 577. 641.
Πολυν
Polyn.
νεκρὸν
corpse 1013. There is also no example in A. where
νεο
neo- is certainly monosyllabic (cf. on 513), except
νοσσός
chick Frg. 510. The rite is again described by Apollonius IV, 702 ff.: (Circe)
πρῶτα μὲν ἀτρέπτοιο λυτήριον ἥ γε φόνοιο τειναμένη καθύπερθε συὸς τέκος
first, a release from unyielding bloodshed, stretching over her the offspring of a sow,
ἧς ἔτι μαζοὶ πλήμυρον λοχίης ἐκ νηδύος
whose teats still swelled from the womb of birth,
αἵματι χεῖρας τέγγεν
she wet her hands with blood,
ἐπιτμήγουσα δέρην
cutting the throat·
αὖτις δὲ καὶ ἄλλοις μείλισσεν χύτλοισι
and again she appeased with other libations,
καθάρσιον ἀγκαλέουσα Ζῆνα
calling upon Zeus the purifier, etc. Cf. above on 280ff., also on the fact that according to Orestes' opinion the purification is strengthened by subsequent intercourse on journeys and in houses, V. 451 f., where
βατοῖς
to those who go must be written for
βοτοῖς
to cattle (which is certainly assimilated after 450). Cf. 240
ὅμοια χέρσον καὶ θάλασσαν ἐκπερῶν
crossing alike land and sea.
῾Ρυτᾶς ἐξ ἁλός
from the sea of Rhytas
Ag. 1408
. The asyndetic beginning 451 stands for
ἡμεῖς δὲ πάλαι
but we long ago, with emphatic preposing of
πάλαι
long ago. But striking is
ἀφιερώμεθα
let us consecrate instead of
ἀφωσιώμεθα
let us purify (Ddf.): Orestes has not become
ἱερός
sacred, but only
ὅσιος
holy, and also
ταῦτα
these things (the blood-guilt) can fittingly be object only to
ἀφοσιοῦσθαι
to purify oneself. I would therefore also write
ἀφωσιώμεθα
let us purify; elsewhere neither this nor that verb is found in the tragedians. 453Eumenides. Aeschylus. ed. Friedrich Blass. Berlin. 1907.