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    Seven cruces in Aristophanes ("Acharnians" and "Thesmophoriazusae")Author(s): Colin AustinSource: Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, New Series, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2002), pp. 73-76Published by: Accademia EditoraleStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20546745.

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    Seven cruces in Aristophanes(Acharnions and Thesmophoriazusa?)Colin Austin

    1. Ach. 23-25

    otj?5 o? jtQux?vEic Y\novoiv akl? ?coQ?av?]xovxe?, Eixa ?' cbaxio?vxai Jtc?? ?oxel?t?XdovxE?t aM,f|Xoi?i jteql jiqc?xod ^?Xxyu.

    Thus S. Douglas Olson (Aristophanes Acharnians, Oxford 2002)who writes (p. 75) that eXO?vxec seems pointless55 and may be an intrusive variant for t^xovxec in the line above55. He takes ?X?riXoioi with

    (baxiowxai, they will bump into each other55 (cf. 844, Lys. 330), but forthe verb on its own cf. 42 el? xr)v jtpoE?Qiav jta? ?vrjQ cbox?^Exai, Plut.330. The dative here can be attached directly to e^ovxe? used in a hostile sense (as in Apocalypse II 5, EQX0|iai aoi), then ? can you believeit? ? they 11 jostle and go for one another to get a front-row seat55, cf.Horn. //. 16, 520 f. uaxEodai / e^frcbv ouou-eveeooiv and the recurrent for

    mula EJt5?Xki]koioiv lovxE? (LI. 3,15, etc.).2. Ach. 706-709

    toox5 ?ycb [x?v r\k?r\oa x?jtE^ioQ^a^iTiv i?cbv?Vv?Qa JTQE??UxnV VK ?v?Q?? XO^OXOV XUX00U.EVOV,O? \i? XT]V f|UT|XQ5,EXE?VO?\VIK f|V OoVXV???rj?,o??' ?v ai)XY]v xf]v t 'Axaiav Qai?tco? ?|v?oxex5 ?v.

    709 is a troubled verse55 (Oison, op. cit. p. 254). A simple explanationwas offered by the late Sir Denys Page (tl978) in his 1960 courseof lectures in Cambridge. At)xr)v xr\v 'Axaiav is not the direct object ofthe verb, but an oath strengthening \ia xr]v ArmrycQ5 in the previousline:

    015?3 ?v - atkrjv xr]v 'Axaiav - Qai?ico? f|v?axEx5 ?v,

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    74 C. Austin

    By Demeter, when he was the Thucydides we knew?

    by Achaeaherself... . The cult-title goddess of grief is added through emotional excitement. M? is omitted as in Soph. Ant. 758 ov x?vcV OXufxJtov(see Headlam on Herond. 5, 77 and Gow on Theocr. 4, 17) and theverb is used either absolutely, he wouldn't have restrained himself(cf. 296 f.,Nub. 1363, Lys. 765), or with xuxcbjxevo? understood from707, he wouldn't have tolerated (being hustled by an archer) , cf. Eq.1102, Vesp. 1337, Thesm. 593.

    3. Thesm. 436-439

    jt?vxa y?g X?yei ?ixaia*tjtaaa? ?5 ei??a? ?^rjxaoevjr?vxa ?5 e?a?xaaev cprjevi jtuxvc?? xetjtoixikru? ?oyou? avnuosvev ?ie?nxr|U?vo'u?.

    Trochaic dimeters are needed in 437-438 to match the antistrophe at 524 f. (xa?e y?g eijxe?v xr\v jiavoDpyov / xax? x? qpaveg?v a>?9?vai?co?).So read e.g.

    jt?vxa ?5 et?5 eEfyzao?v jt?vx' e?a?xaaev jtuxvco? xe nxk.

    Once et??a? arose out of e??e, the further alteration of jt?vxa cV tojxaoa? ?' became inevitable, n?vxa ?' e?cV is a glowing compliment(contrast Eur. Phoen. 745 e?? ?' ?vr|Q ov jx?v?K ?qcci). In 438 Jt?vx' wasrestored by Enger and Thiersch deleted qppevi as a gloss.

    4. Thesm. 990-994

    Erne co ?i?? ovBoojiie xai Zeja?Xa? Jtat,XOQOi? xeojio^ievocxax5 opea Nvnqpcxv ?oaxot? ?v fiuvoi?,coEvi Em ev??

    avaxooexjcov.

    This is the text printed byWilliam D. Furley and IanMaarten Bremer in their GreekHymns II (T?bingen 2001), p. 351, with the following apparatus:

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    Seven cruces in Aristophanes 75

    990 EftiE coAi?? ov Enger: Emov ?iovuoe R 994a coEi3i3 Eih5Hermann: Emov emov R 994b lacunam statuit Hermann, Coulon, Austin

    In their note on 994 they write (p. 359): There is no way ofachieving any certainty about the best supplement. Coulon5s as well asAustin's derive from Soph. Ant. 1151-2 ?maoiv, a? ?e fiaiv?^iEva? Jt?vvuxoi xoqe?ovoi55.1 now prefer , cf. Plut. 288-289 cb? f]?o^iaLxai x?Qjiopiai xai ?ouXo^iai xoQE?oai / ?qp3 f|?ovfj?. The participle couldeasily have dropped out after xeqjiO[xevo? in 992.5. Thesm. 1026-1029

    O?E yaQ o Sx??rnc tcp?taxS;Tiakai ?cp?oxnx9 ?Xo?v?cpi?ov ?xQ?^iaoe x?oa^i?Etjtvovt.

    Thus R: Enger restored a second dochmiac in 1026 by readingjt?Am qp?Xa^. I suggest jrcdai

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    76 C. Austin

    7. Thesm. 1215?QXCO?? iov ?f|VT| 'OXL.

    2u?rivTi is the Skythian's bowcase (cf. 1197 with schol. ad loc). Asthe first syllable is short, metre is best restored by transposition:?qxco? cru?fivri ?' eoxL

    For ?? in thirdposition,

    cf. 746 Jt?a' ?xr] ??, K. J. Dover, Greek andthe Greeks, Oxford 1987, p. 59 f.

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