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Euripides, Hippolytus 88 againAuthor(s): M. L. WestSource: The
Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Dec., 1966), pp.
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274 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
CATCHING WORMS
P. Oxy. 2530 Iliad xix. 26-30'Callimachus,
Hecale?'
OvAa..Lf.[IloslyyEtvwveaL, ELKtrWoLt 3L VEKpdV-
yEatov. E[ tEK ' alTov rEcOaaL-Ka-ra % Xpd'a
TCvraavr'al.U0V7iler[it
['oV,
3'OExfEoT E.TL.e-ra
OEW EELS TpyvpoimEaTEKvovILflT[ TEKVOV, 7u T-rt -raV-ra /Epa
bPEufluL /t LEpA'vWV.
W v rj p v rpcrELp'cW &XAaAKEt-v'ypLta oAt.
University College, Oxford M. L. WEST
SOPHOCLES, ANTIGONE io8, 208, 223
IN C.R. lxxix (1965), 259, Professor H.Lloyd-Jones has replied
to my notes on theAntigone in C.R. lxxix (1965), 5-6. I verymuch
regret having overlooked his defenceof dwro'pcp (io8), involving an
entirelydifferent interpretation from mine, in C.Q. li(I957), 12-
5. But I must protest againsthis suggestion that I was not aware
thatDain retains rtL0V at 208, and that Jebband Dain keep raxovg at
223. I made it quiteplain that I was arguing in the one
casespecifically against Jebb and Pearson, andin the other against
Pearson; for example,surely my statement that 'Pearson (O.C.T.)
follows some of the older editors in rejectingraxovg' implied
that other editors retain it.My aim was to give support to those
(Dain,Masqueray, Campbell and Abbott, andothers) who feel that in
these places theunanimous authority ofthe manuscripts shouldnot be
defied. Lloyd-Jones's readiness to brushaside the awkward fact that
the manuscriptsall have T/Lt7V at 208 may indicate that mydefence
of the reading was not withoutjustification.
MARTIN F. SMITHUniversity College of North Wales, Bangor
EURIPIDES, HIPPOLYTUS 88 AGAIN
avaC-Osobvs ap 3Sawrdra7a aAEvXpecwv.'Lord-for gods are our
masters fitly called.'
IN C.R. lxxix [1965], 56, I propounded my
interpretation of this line rather laconically,thinking that its
rightness would be obvious.To some of my acquaintances it has
been,but to others, including Mr. J. Glucker (C.R.lxxx [1966], 17),
it has not, and I must tryagain.
'Outside poetry,' I said, 'JvaC survivedonly as an appellation
of deities'; and Inoted that its use by Hippolytus' servant
inaddressing Hippolytus was 'a normal tra-ditional usage of
poetry'. To cite againstme large numbers of poetic examples,
asGlucker does, is
simplyirrelevant. I
agreewith him that an accustomed audiencewould normally not
think twice about them.The fact remains that outside poetry it
wasan appellation of deities; so that it was open toan intellectual
poet at any moment to pauseand put a new, meaningful
interpretationon the familiar poeticism. I maintain thatthis is
what Euripides did, because it is only
on this interpretation that the line says any-thing
sensible.
I rejected Barrett's interpretation; Gluckersimply refers us
back to it. Barrett's ex-
planation is certainly subtle, but it convincesme no more now
than at first. He says thatthe servant 'pointedly refrains from
ad-dressing him with the customary
Sia~'rora,so that he can insist that this humblest ofaddresses
is the privilege of the gods'. Whyis it the humblest of addresses ?
Because 'with
UEaw'rorathe worshipper proclaims his
humility as that of slave towards master'. Ifind this
contradictory. If Secr7o'-dq s appliedto gods in order to suggest
the master-slaverelationship, it cannot at the same time be
inappropriateto the master-slave relation-
ship on the ground that it is only fit for thegods.
The verse belongs to a type for which thereare parallels. The
speaker begins with anexclamation which may in itself be
ordinary,and then, in an aside, suddenly explainswhy it is
particularly appropriate-not whyhe has rejected a possible
alternative.
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THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 275
Euripides does something very similar inHelen 560 :
'OC0o-0-Es ydp KaGTT tyvdL Kew ?AovUS.
So does Sophocles in Electra 1361 (Electrato the old
servant):
xatp' c rdarEp-wrarepa dp dEaopav 0Kic.
A diligent combing of Tragedy might addto these examples. They
confirm that in aline beginning
avae-Osob; ydp ...,
OEov'o hould be the explanation of dvae.
University College, Oxford M. L. WEST
EURIPIDES, HYPSIPYLE Fr. I. i. 5 (Bond, p. 25)
c~. tapia ao~b.VEcTo[k'q, lrL~ro' v.PAGE (G.L.P., p. 83)
translates: 'How en-viable your mother, whoever she was ' Soread
perhaps ~Ks) for W3. f. Eur. Ion 308 aob(' el -rt; c aovVTrv
'KOtEKav oApwa,
oph.Fr. 837P J 7rptawdAto KEWVOLporv . . ., Ar.Ach. 254 f.
CLgaKcpLog &'rrtg ' Jwv'aa .. (CO
Ar,c0
R), Lys. 572 'g 6vd'rro&'
Dobree,'T
R), Diphilus fr. I 14 K C aKdipov bpdo'vqa(cs Gaisford, W Stob.
mss.), etc.
Trinity Hall, Cambridge COLIN AUSTIN
P. OXY. 2329, 3-4
-dya0n& rv'[x],- viv KGapoS ppv p' d [AolEv-]rvy 4v0av'a yap
rapap4EAacLvtOL 80Koi.
THAT s the text printed by thefirst
editor,C. H. Roberts; but in his note on p. 79 ofPart XXII of
the Oxyrhynchus series, hesays, 'pEX[ or (slightly less likely)
e?E?['.When I inspected the manuscript in theAshmolean in company
with Dr. John Rea,we both agreed that the chi was virtuallycertain;
only the top left-hand part of theletter is preserved, but that
closely resemblesthe corresponding part of the two chis in 1.
I.Further, the speaker of 1. 4 must surely have
said not 'I am going to neglect things here',but 'I am going to
neglect things here for awhile'.
Sense and palaeography would both besatisfied by the supplement
pLX[p&rwnd.Compare Samia 319f., where Moschionspeaks as
follows:
irpoactE vvd 40[ar] p. Se aae[Ta&o0;TO KCarapEELv S Gse
8qacr7aLtAAw~pXp T, wVd, Set ydp O'8, O'rav 80oK7L,
7rE[L]ai07aooU' vTWON.'Christ Church, Oxford HUGH
LLOYD-JONES
IW tOLtOJVOo
PROFESSOR H. LLOYD-JONES'S learned noteon AtOog iroAl'r&
(C.R. lxxix [I965], 246 f.)has made me reconsider a piece of
doxo-graphy on Anaximander which seems tohave given rise to rather
laboured explana-tion or unnecessarily complicated (i.e.improbable)
conjecture. While in Aftius
x Koerte rightly followed Wilamowitzin deleting the pov which in
the papyrusfollows KaraTvELwv. udhaus's expedient oftransposing
E'arEaL o the beginning of theline in order to keep pov, which has
beenadopted by Christina Dedoussi n her recentedition of the play
(Athens, 1965), is ruledout by the impossibly late position
povwould then have in the sentence.
(iii. io. 2 [Plutarch] = Diels, DoxographiGraeci, p. 376) we
read Ava&4.Lav3pog lcpKiovt 7i ev yY 7rpoa0epi the
correspondingpassage in Hippolytus Haer. i. 6. 3 (Diels,Dox.
Graec., p. 559) runs as follows: r 84'aXqca airhq i~ypov (libri; C.
H. Kahn; yvpovci. Roeper; edd.) arpoyy'Aov Xiovr AIOC)
The attempt of A. Barigazzi in Athenaeumxxxiv (1956), 340 f. to
argue that this fragmentmay come from the Georgos was not
worthmaking; neither have I much profited fromthe treatment by R.
Stark in Rhein. Mus.c (1957), 29 f. In lines 9, io, and 24
thesupplements printed by the first editor maybe right, but they
should not be in the text.
