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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Arcturus is a very suitable person to tell us the ὑποκεíμενα of the play. During the night preceding the action he has produced the storm which is to bring about the dénouement of the plot (11. 66 ff.):
illorum navis longe in altum abscesserat.
ego quoniam video virginem asportarier,
tetuli ei auxilium et lenoni exitium simul:
increpui hibernum et fluctus movi maritimos.
nam Arcturus signum sum omnium acerrimum:
vehemens sum exoriens, cum occido vehementior.
page no 10 note 1 In ‘Index scholarum 1892–3, Gryphiswaldiae, 1892’. This article is partly reproduced and on some points enlarged in Marx's, commentary on the Rudens, published in Abhandl. d. Sächs, Akad. d. Wissensch., phil.-hist. Kl. xxxviii. 5, 1928Google Scholar .
page no 10 note 2 On the text of these lines cf. Leo, F., Hesiodea (Index schol. Gotting. 1894), p. 17Google Scholar, and SWilamo-witz's edition of the Erga.
page no 11 note 1 Cf. also Wilamowitz, , Sitzgsb. Berl. Akad. 1921, p. 75Google Scholar ( = Kleine Schriften, i, p. 454Google Scholar).
page no 11 note 2 The representations in Attic figurative art are in keeping with that general conception. F. Marx, in the article which I have quoted above, has not forgotten to mention the famous picture on the krater in the British Museum (about 420 B.C.) where star-boys are jumping into the sea in front of the rising sun (Furtwängler-Reichhold, plate 126). For other vases with similar representations cf. Hauser's commentary, F.–R. iii, pp. 33 ff., and also the article ‘Phos-phoros’ in Roscher's Lexik. d. Mythol.
page no 11 note 3 A popular belief which has only a remote relation, if any, to our problem was not unknown to the Athenians of the classical age: λέϒουσɩ, κατ⋯ τò ρα ώς στέρες ϒɩϒνόμεθ΅ ὅταν τɩς ποθάνη (Aristoph, . Peace, 832 f.Google Scholar, cf. Usener, , Das Weihnachtsfest 2, p. 79, n. 26Google Scholar, Wilamowitz, , Platon, i 2, p. 472Google Scholar). For later instances cf. Welles, C. B., Harvard Theol. Review xxxiv (1941), p. 90, n. 32Google Scholar.
page no 12 note 1 I owe my acquaintance with the article to the kindness of its author.
page no 12 note 2 A cautious, if rather hypersceptical, reexamination of the vexed problem has been made by K. v. Fritz, Pauly–Wissowa–Kroll, xix, pp.2360 ff.
page no 12 note 3 On this order (fire, aether, air, water, earth) of the elements, which is not contradicted by the apparently different arrangement expounded at p. 981c, cf. Jaeger, W., Arisioteles, p. 146Google Scholar (p. 144 of the English transl.), n. 2, where the inferences of Sachs, Eva, Die fünf platonischen Körper (Philol. Unters. xxiv, 1917), p. 15 f.Google Scholar, p. 63, are silently corrected.
page no 12 note 4 Cf. Plato, Tim. 30d, Jaeger, W., Arisioteles, p. 143Google Scholar (p. 141 of the English transl.).
page no 13 note 1 These efforts are ridiculed in the prologue of the Strasburg papyrus; Pap. Argent. 53 (Schroeder, O., Novae com. fragm. in pap. reperta [1915], pp. 46 ff.Google Scholar), where Dionysos, calling himself ðντως θεός, promises to make a better job of it than the tiresome sham deities of the conventional prologues. Cf. Wilamowitz, , Menanders Schiedsgericht, p. 146Google Scholar, Glaube der Hellenen, ii, p. 319, n. 1Google Scholar.
page no 13 note 2 Cf. in general Leo, F., Plautin. Forschungen 2, pp. 211ff.Google Scholar, Williamowitz, , Menanders Schiedsgericht, pp. 143 ffGoogle Scholar.
page no 13 note 3 Körte, (Menander 3, p. xxx, n. 5Google Scholar) suggests ‘fortasse Menandri’.
page no 13 note 4 Cf. Dziatzko, , Rhein. Mus., xxiv, 1869, p. 578Google Scholar.
page no 13 note 5 Cf. Ed. Fraenkel, , Plautinisches im Plautus, p. 121, n. 1Google Scholar; Jachmann, G., Plautinisches und Attisches, p. 100Google Scholar.
page no 14 note 1 A fine appreciation of the qualities of his art, as far as we know it, is given by Jachmann, , Plaulinisches und Attisches, pp. 100 ffGoogle Scholar.
