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Robortello's ‘Conjecture’ at Aeschylus, Supplices 337

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Marsh McCall
Affiliation:
Stanford University

Extract

At Supplices 337, as part of the increasingly tense stichomythic testing between the Danaids and Pelasgus, the Danaids utter an emotional question, which reads in all the MSS, that is M and the apographa Ma, Mb, Mc, Me, Md(E)

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Shorter Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1982

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References

1 None of the MSS assigns the verse; there is almost complete modern consensus that it should go to the Danaids (or their leader), but Wilamowitz gives it to Pelasgus.

2 Until the work of Johansen, H. Friis (Aeschylus, The Suppliants, vol. I (Copenhagen, 1970), pp. 40–1), Stanley was credited with the conjecture.Google Scholar

3 The reference to the scholia, when pursued, leads only to a marginal scholium in M which reads: κατ' ἔχθραν δ***λoνóτι [accents thus] · τ⋯C γ⋯ρ τoc ἂνδραc δεcϕóταc ***νoιτo; all the apographa of M containing scholia (Ma, Mb, Me, Md(E), Mg, Mi, Mj, Ml) also read ***νoιτo (Mb miscopies M as ***νoιτoι).

4 The Sources of Robortello's Edition of AeschylusSupplices, BICS 28 (1981) 79102.Google Scholar

5 ‘A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus’ Source', Arktouros. Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox (Berlin and New York, 1979) pp. 109–14.Google Scholar

6 I wish to thank K. R. Bradley and E. Courtney for suggesting improvements to a draft of this paper.