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Notes on the Agamemnon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

G. Norwood
Affiliation:
University College, Cardiff.

Extract

θήσμαιis not.is not‘I shall regard,’ as has often been supposed, for the reason that the two lines thus become tautological:‘I shall account my master's fortune prosperous; this beacon is a stroke of good luck.’ Verrall (quoting the Scholiast's oίkειώσoμαι, which does indeed strongly support his view) writes:'"My lord's good fortune I shall score to my game," i.e. regard it as my own.' The weakness of this seems to be that it gets too much out of the termination of one verb;1 something likeoίkειώσoμαι is needed to support the emphasis.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1915

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