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Metrical Observations on Aesch. Pers. 922–1001
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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Text, interpretation and metre present a tangled problem in this threnody, and the solutions of editors differ widely. The chief function of detailed metrical study in such corrupt passages of lyric is to weight the scales in favour of—or more often against—certain methods of handling the text. The positive results of this present attempt to apply metrical criteria are necessarily modest and tentative; negatively they are, I think, sometimes decisive.
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page 109 note 1 e.g. Eur, . I.A. 1322Google Scholar ⋯φɛλɛν ⋯λ⋯ταν πομπα⋯αν. The one exception appears to be Eur, . Hec. 97Google Scholar π⋯μψατε δα⋯μονες ἱκɛτε⋯ω. Nauck deletes the line; I suspect wholesale interpolations in the context. In any case the fact that the first metron is wholly dactylic mitigates the abnormality here.
page 109 note 2 A legitimate exception to this rule occurs where the lengthened penultimate is an irregular line; variation on a normal short, cf. Soph. O.T. 1196 (corresponding to a short), Ant. 1132 (a chor. dim. rallentando). The many other violations printed in our texts are due to faulty colometry).
page 110 note 1 It is tempting in Pers. 955 to imagine a disyllable imperative = ‘Cry o'l.’