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Remarks on Aeschylus Agam. 1172

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

In the last number of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (p. 175) Mr. John B. Bury advocates the emended reading of the corrupt verse 1172 of the Agamemnon,

ἐγὼ δὲ θϵρμὸν οὖς τάχ' ἐν πέδῳ βαλῶ.

He does not exactly explain this (in my opinion it is inexplicable), but he says θϵρμῷ in 1278 seems to prove that θϵρμὸν is right in 1172. But θϵρμῷ refers to shedding the warm lifeblood, while θϵρμὸν οὖς, if I understand Mr. Bury aright, means an inspired or prophetic ear—‘an ear that used to listen to the utterances of the victims.’ Between the literal and the figurative senses there is no resemblance at all.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1885

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