Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of editions consulted
- Abbreviations
- 1 Horatiana 〚I〛
- 2 Ibis 539
- 3 On Soph. Electr. 564, and Eur. I.T. 15 and 35
- 4 On certain corruptions in the Persae of Aeschylus
- 5 Isocr. Paneg. §40
- 6 Schol. on Aesch. P.V. 488 〚472〛
- 7 CωφPONH
- 8 Emendationes Propertianae
- 9 The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
- 10 Note on Emendations of Propertius
- 11 Horatiana 〚II〛
- 12 Notes on Latin poets 〚I〛
- 13 Persius III. 43
- 14 Conjectural emendations in the Medea
- 15 Review: T. G. Tucker, The Supplices of Aeschylus
- 16 Review: I. Flagg, Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians
- 17 Horace, Carm. iv. 2, 49
- 18 Notes on Latin poets 〚II〛
- 19 Horatiana 〚III〛
- 20 Emendations in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 21 The new fragment of Euripides
- 22 Adversaria orthographica
- 23 The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
- 24 Sophoclea
- 25 Remarks on the Vatican Glossary 3321
- 26 Soph. Oed. Col 527
- 27 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚I〛
- 28 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚II〛
- 29 Review: K. P. Schulze, Catulli Veronensis liber
- 30 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚III〛
- 31 A note on Virgil
- 32 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚IV〛
- 33 Review: J. P. Postgate, Sexti Properti carmina
- 34 Cicero Pro Milone c. 33 §90
- 35 Ovid's Heroides 〚I〛
- 36 Ovid's Heroides 〚II〛
- 37 Ovid's Heroides 〚III〛
- 38 Ovid's Heroides 〚IV〛
- 39 Ovid's Heroides 〚V〛
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of editions consulted
- Abbreviations
- 1 Horatiana 〚I〛
- 2 Ibis 539
- 3 On Soph. Electr. 564, and Eur. I.T. 15 and 35
- 4 On certain corruptions in the Persae of Aeschylus
- 5 Isocr. Paneg. §40
- 6 Schol. on Aesch. P.V. 488 〚472〛
- 7 CωφPONH
- 8 Emendationes Propertianae
- 9 The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
- 10 Note on Emendations of Propertius
- 11 Horatiana 〚II〛
- 12 Notes on Latin poets 〚I〛
- 13 Persius III. 43
- 14 Conjectural emendations in the Medea
- 15 Review: T. G. Tucker, The Supplices of Aeschylus
- 16 Review: I. Flagg, Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians
- 17 Horace, Carm. iv. 2, 49
- 18 Notes on Latin poets 〚II〛
- 19 Horatiana 〚III〛
- 20 Emendations in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 21 The new fragment of Euripides
- 22 Adversaria orthographica
- 23 The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
- 24 Sophoclea
- 25 Remarks on the Vatican Glossary 3321
- 26 Soph. Oed. Col 527
- 27 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚I〛
- 28 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚II〛
- 29 Review: K. P. Schulze, Catulli Veronensis liber
- 30 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚III〛
- 31 A note on Virgil
- 32 The manuscripts of Propertius 〚IV〛
- 33 Review: J. P. Postgate, Sexti Properti carmina
- 34 Cicero Pro Milone c. 33 §90
- 35 Ovid's Heroides 〚I〛
- 36 Ovid's Heroides 〚II〛
- 37 Ovid's Heroides 〚III〛
- 38 Ovid's Heroides 〚IV〛
- 39 Ovid's Heroides 〚V〛
Summary
In the American Journal of Philology, vol. XIII p. 152 〚this edition p. 192〛, I proposed to write here ἦ πατρόθεν, ὡς ἀκούω, δυσώνυμα λέκτρ' ἐπάσω; and I added i.e. didst thou wed thy father's widow? No. XIX. of Hermathena contains an article by Prof. Tyrrell, full of his usual kindness and generosity, in which the following remarks occur (p. 307) :
‘But what is most puzzling to me is to guess why … Prof. Housman thinks that he has improved the sense by reading πατρόθεν for ματρόθεν, and how he has persuaded himself that πατρόθεν λέκτρα could mean “his father's widow”, unless πατρόθεν can take the place of πατρός; and if it can, then ματρόθεν = ματρός, and ματρὀθεν λέκτρα means “thy mother's bed”, and there is no difficulty in the passage.’
I take πατρόθεν with the verb: ἦ πατρόθεν λέκτρ' ἐπάσω means came thy bride unto theefrom thy father's arms? My paraphrase didst thou wed thy father's widow? is in sense the exact equivalent of this; but since its form has misled Prof. Tyrrell, and may therefore mislead others, into thinking that I took πατρόθεν λέκτρα to mean thy father's widow, I desire to make this explanation.
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