Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2009
page 166 note 1 For ‘The Table of Mên’, see a forth-coming article by Levick, B. M. in J.H.S. lxxxi (1971)Google Scholar. We hesitate to suggest that some of the κοπταί offered to Mên could have been crescent-shaped or moon-shaped, but there is some evidence that horned and circular cakes were offered to moon gods and goddesses: cf. Poll. vi. 76 and Suda s.v. βοῦς ἕβδομος: πέρατα ἕχοντα κατἐ μίμησιν τῆς πρωτοφαοῦς σελήνης … ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ αἱ σελήναι πέμματα πλατέα κυκλοτερῆ, ἃ καὶ οὕτως ἐκἑλουν.
page 166 note 2 Oxford, 1939.
page 166 note 3 Verse 574 n.
page 167 note 1 e.g. E. Ph. 524 τυραννίδος πέρι; E. El. 62 Αἰγίσθῳ πἀρα.
page 167 note 2 By the second century A.D. grammarian Apollonius Dyscolus, Synt. 309. 28.
page 167 note 3 It is worthy of note that the preposition περί may be used postpositionally also in the Attic prose writers, e.g. Plato Phil. 49 a σοφίαςπέρι.
page 168 note 1 Studien zu Aeschylus, 79–82.