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Miscellaneous Notes on the Works and Days1
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The scholiasts supposed that it was Zeus, not Strife, who dwells γαíνσ Έν ŕίζησι, and Paley has punctuated the line accordingly. I do not in any case doubt that he is wrong, but if the Theogony is evidence, he can almost be proved so. In the Theogony the γης ŕίσα;ι are a kind of suburb of Tartarus, from which the author does not very clearly distinguish them. In his useful though somewhat desultory gazetteer of those districts he says that Styx dwells there apart from the gods, and that Iris only comes down when there are oaths to be administered in Olympus. Clearly Zeus is not at home in such a place. Strife herself is not enumerated in the Theogony among the residents, but her family is. Whatever she may be elsewhere, both in the Works and Days and in the Theogony she is the daughter of Night; and in the Theogony not only Night but also her two sons Sleep and Death reside in the district. Strife may appropriately keep them company.
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page 113 note 3 225.
page 113 note 4 Lyrics from Elizabethan Songbooks, ed. 1913, p. 210.
page 113 note 5 Proposed apparently by D. Heinsius on the basis of Proclus's note: óπoîoσ θν έκάστψ τυγχάŋ βίoσ άπο;δομένoςς. Rzach's critical note fails to record the conjecture, though it is adopted by Paley and Sittl.
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