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Aristophanes, Birds 13–18
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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So van Leeuwen prints the lines, following Cobet and Meineke in athetizing 16. Nor is it difficult to find grounds for the exclusion; τòν ἒποϕ is (virtually) repeated at 47; the following three words smell of the scholiast; the last three resemble the end of 13. The line taken as a whole seems to play little if any role, and indeed to lack meaning, even if line 47 is some way away and it is a little odd that the three separate elements meld into a perfectly acceptable comic trimeter (but compare Wasps 1293). Conjectures are not lacking for the replacement of ⋯κ τ⋯ν ⋯ρν⋯ων by something which gives more sense; Köchly's ἂνθρωποσ ποτ' ὢν may be taken as typical in both meaning and style.
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page 489 note 1 I am indebted to Mr G. W. Bond for much constructive comment on this note.
page 489 note 2 As I believe the name should be written; cf. der Mühll, P. Von in Gnomon 4 (1928), 624Google Scholar, on the Triballian's ναβαισατρε⋯ at 1615, partly anticipated by Bayard, L. in Revue de Philologie 44 (1920), 30Google Scholar.
page 489 note 3 For further information on the location of Orneae, see Gomme, A. W., Andrewes, A., and Dover, K. J., A Historical Commentary on Thucydides iv (Oxford, 1970), 107–10Google Scholar; on the fighting there, see ibid. 222.
page 489 note 4 Merry, W. W. (ed.), The Birds (Clarendon Press, 1889)Google Scholar, ad loc.
page 491 note 5 For the ease with which such mistakes could arise, see Lowe, J. C. B., ‘The manuscript evidence for changes of speaker in Aristophanes’, BICS 9 (1962), 27–42Google Scholar.