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Aeschylus, Supplices 249

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

E. W. Whittle
E. W. Whittle
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University of Birmingham
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This is the reading of M. presumably arose from a dittography ( for ). (Turnebus) has been generally accepted. The adverbial use of an adjective qualifying the subject of an imperative appears to be at least unusual; no examples are quoted (though this may be fortuitous) by Kühner–Gerth, i. 274–6. Robortello, followed by Tucker, preferred : but the earliest certain appearance of the adverb seems to be in Aristotle. I would propose : cf. Supp. 1015, Th. 34. This is no less satisfactory palaeographically, and the participle is demonstrably idiomatic Greek.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 1-2 , May 1961 , pp. 9
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1961

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References

1 This and the other references in square brackets are among Walter Headlam's manuscript notes on this passage in his copies of Wecklein's edition of Aeschylus; I am grateful to the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, for permission to use this material. There is no indication that Headlam ever considered the emendation suggested. He discussed the line in C.R. xii (1898), 191.Google Scholar