Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics) (41 page)

Eustathius on
Odyssey
1625. 44.

A newly caught
antelope, a lion’s food

Glaukos Potnieus
Hermann,
Xantriai
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 185

Harpocration,
Glossary
of the Ten Attic Orators
198. 3.

Push on, pursue, in
no wise faint of foot!

Laïos
Gronovius,
Hêliades
Gataker,
Philoktêtês
Hermann.

FRAGMENT 186

Hesychius,
Lexicon
s.v.
ostrakôn
; cp. Photius,
Lexicon
353. 17.

Wingless, tiny, but
just now bare of the egg-shell.

Oidipous
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 187

Macrobius,
Saturnalia
i. 18. 6.

Apollo, the
ivy-crowned, the reveller, the seer.

Neaniskoi
Hartung, Bassarai
Nauck.
The ecstatic mantic art of Apollo assumes a Bacchic character.

FRAGMENT 188

Orion,
Etymologicum
26. 5.

Mistress maiden,
ruler of the stormy mountains.

Êdônoi
Hermann,
Kallistô
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 189

Plato,
Republic
ii. 383B, whence Eusebius,
Preparation for the Gospel
xiii. 3. p. 647A;
ll. 5-9 Athenagoras,
Apology
21. 104; ll. 7-8 attributed to Sophocles by
Phoebammon,
On Figures
, in
Rhetores Graeci
viii. 518; cited,
without naming the author, by Plutarch,
How a Young Man ought to hear Poems
2. 16E.

He dwelt on my
happiness in my children, whose days were to be many and unacquainted with
disease; and, comprising all, in triumph-strain that cheered my soul, he
praised my lot, blest of the gods. And so I deemed that falsehood sat not upon
Phoebus’ lips divine, fraught with the prophet’s art. But he, who raised this
song himself, he who himself was present at my marriage-feast, he who himself
spake thus, he it is who himself hath slain my son.

Psychostasia
Butler, Welcker
(or from another play of the same group),
Hoplôn krisis
Ern. Schneider,
Thalamopoioi
Wagner,
Nêreides
Hartung.
Thetis contrasts Apollo’s prophecy of her happy motherhood, uttered at her
marriage to Peleus, with his deed in guiding the shaft of Paris that killed her
son.

FRAGMENT 190

Plutarch,
How a
Young Man ought to hear Poems
14. 36B.

Courage! Suffering,
when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Philoktêtês
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 191

Plutarch,
Consolation
to Apollonius
10. 106C.

Since unjustly men
hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

Philoktêtês
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 192

Plutarch,
Of
Isis and Osiris
20. 358E; cp.
Etymologicum Genuinum and Etymologicum
Magnum
s.v.
apargmata
.

Thou needs must
spit it out and make clean thy mouth.

Perrhaibides
or
Laïos
Etymologicum Genuinum
.
Those who committed murder by treachery sought to purify themselves by tasting,
and then spitting out, the blood of their victims.

FRAGMENT 193

Plutarch,
On the
E at Delphi
9. 389A.

’Tis meet that the
dithyramb, his fellow-reveller, half song, half shout, attend on Dionysus.

Neaniskoi
Hermann,
Êdônoi
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 194

Plutarch,
On the
Cessation of Oracles
43. 434A.

For seizing a
self-sharpened Euboean sword

Thrêssai
Osann.
“Self-sharpened” is supposed to mean “cold-forged,” not “fire-forged” (cp.
Seven
against Thebes
942).
artithêkton
“just sharpened,” Sidgwick (after
arti
thêkton
Blaydes) is the best of the many conjectures.

FRAGMENT 195

Plutarch,
On the
Restraint of Anger
4. 454E.

[The flame,] come
to its youthful strength, consumed the lofty labour of the carpenters.

FRAGMENT 196

Plutarch,
Table
Talk
i. 8. 1. p. 625D.

. . . But when old
show thyself a clear scribe (?)

Salaminiai
Hartung.
Cited by Plutarch to illustrate his remark that old men can read only when a
book is held at a distance. The mangled passage eludes satisfactory emendation:
su de
(so Heath)|
apothem eides auton ou gar egguthen
|
horan
gerôn ktl.
Dindorf; and so E. A. J. Ahrens, but reading
horas. su d’ ex
apoptou
(cp. Sophocles,
Philoctetes
446) Headlam. The second line
seems to mean “when old, write a large, clear hand,” remembering that the aged
read with difficulty.

FRAGMENT 197

Plutarch,
On
Monarchy, Democracy, Oligarchy
4. 827A,
Life of Demetrius
35.

Thou indeed didst
give me life, thou dost think to destroy me.

Pentheus
Anonymous reported by
Stanley,
Xantriai
Stanley,
Niobê
Hartung, a satyr-play Gomperz.
The reading
su toi me phygas, su me kataithein dokeis
, adopted by
Perrin, means “Thou fannest indeed my flame, methinks thou dost quench me too.”
Demetrius Poliocetes quoted the verse in addressing Fortune.

FRAGMENT 198

Plutarch,
That
the Stoics speak greater Improbabilities than the Poets
2. 1057F.

[Changed from] a
piteous old man with a stitch in his back and cramped by pain

Têlephos
Schülz,
Philoktêtês
Butler,
Dionysou trophoi
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 199

Plutarch,
Life
and Poety of Homer
157 (Wyttenbach v. 1196). In l. 2 Wecklein read
moira
for
terma
.

A man dies not for
the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life’s end keep pace
with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his
appointed doom

Eleusinioi
Hartung.
This is perhaps the nearest approach to pure fatalism in Greek tragedy. Cp.
Demosthenes,
On the Crown
(18. 97)
peras men gar apasin anthrôtois
esti tou biou thanatos, kan en oikiskô tis auton katheirxas têrê
, “for all
men’s lives have a fixed limit in death, even though a man shut himself in a
chamber and keep watch.”

FRAGMENT 200

Cited from
Aeschylus by Aristophanes, Fragment 610 (Pollux,
Vocabulary
6. 80).

Truly then thou
shalt pick the seeds from out the bitter-sweet pomegranate.

Eleusinioi
Butler.

FRAGMENT 201

Pollux,
Vocabulary
7. 60; cp. Stephen of Byzantium,
Lexicon
415. 10.

A fock that copies
the Libyrnic cloak

Êdônoi
Hartung,
Oidipous
others.

FRAGMENT 202

Pollux,
Vocabulary
7. 78

And thou in a
well-woven robe of drill

Êdônoi
Hartung.
trimitos
, “three-threaded,” having three threads in the warp.

FRAGMENT 203

Pollux,
Vocabulary
7. 167, cp. 10. 46.

But easily from
baths exceedingly large

Glaukos pontios
Hermann.

FRAGMENT 204

Proclus,
Commentary
on Hesiod’s Works and Days
156.

A mortal woman from
out a seed moulded of clay

Promêtheus lyomenos
Butler, a
Promêtheus
Hermann.
After Prometheus had stolen fire, Zeus in revenge bade Hephaestus fashion
Pandora out of earth.

FRAGMENT 205

Scholiast Ravennas
on Aristophanes,
Lysistrata
1257.

Froth from human
blood streamed over their jaws.

Glaukos Potnieus
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 206

Scholiast on
Aristophanes,
Clouds
1130, on Theocritus,
Idyll
xv. 48; and in
collectors of proverbs: Zenobius iii. 37, Pseudo-Diogenianus iv. 35, Gregory of
Cyprus (cod. Leid. 1. 88, Mosq. 2. 84), Macarius,
Rose-bed
iii. 21, and
other late writers.

Truly at weaving
wiles the Egyptians are clever.

Danaïdes
Hermann,
Thalamopoioi
Oderdick.

FRAGMENT 207

Scholiast on
Euripides,
Orestes
25.

A device,
irresistible and inextricable

In place of
Choêphoroi
l. 999 Wecklein,
Prôteus
Wilamowitz.

FRAGMENT 208

Scholiast B on
Iliad
X 200, Scholiasts DE on
Odyssey
a98.

Take ye your stand
in a ring about yon altar and its gleaming fire, and with your band grouped in
a circle offer up your prayers.

Hiketides
(after l. 232) Burges,
Danaïdes
Hermann,
Promêtheus lyomenos
Hartung,
Mysoi
Droyson.

FRAGMENT 209

Scholiasts BLT on
Iliad
P 542.

For where might and
justice are yoke-fellows – what pair is stronger than this?

Promêtheus
lyomenos
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 210

Scholiast and
Tzetzes on Lycophron’s
Alexandra
1247; cp. Harpocration,
Glossary of
the Ten Attic Orators
151. 5, Hesychius,
Lexicon
s.v.
theoinia
.

Father Theoinos,
thou subduer of the Maenads!

From a Dionysiac
drama, possibly the
Xantriai
, Butler;
Neaniskoi
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 211

Scholiast on Pindar,
Nemean
10. 31 (18).

Hera, the
Perfecter, wedded wife of Zeus

Compare
Eumenides
214.

FRAGMENT 212

Scholiast on
Pindar,
Pythian
2. 18 (10).

O Hermes, lord of
games, son of Maia and Zeus!

FRAGMENT 213

Scholiast on
Sophocles,
Electra
286, and Scholiasts TV on
Iliad
PS 10.

Truly lamentation
is a prop of suffering.

FRAGMENT 214

Scholiast on
Sophocles,
Oedipus Coloneus
1047.

With bright
flashes, the torches’ might.

Eleusinioi
Pauw,
Oidipous
Lobeck,
Iphigeneia
or
Hiereiai
Fritzche.
Aeschylus may be speaking of Eleusis, where the initiates bore torches. But cp.
Eumenides
1022.

FRAGMENT 215

Scholiast on
Sophocles,
Oedipus Coloneus
1049.

I thrill with the
rapture of this mystic rite.

Eleusinioi
Pauw,
Bakchai
(=
Bassarai
) Hartung.

FRAGMENT 216

Scholiast on
Theocritus,
Idyll
ii. 36; cp. Aristeides,
Athena
17 (vol i. 27).

Lady Hecate, before
the portal of the royal halls

Aigyptioi
Tittler,
Dionysou trophoi
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 217

Stobaeus,
Anthology
ii. 8. 10 (Wachsmuth ii. 155), Menander,
Single-verse Maxims
679.

Fortune is for all,
judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

FRAGMENT 218

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 3. 11 (Hense iii. 194) MA, om. S.

Who knows things
useful, not many things, is wise.

FRAGMENT 219

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 3. 14 (Hense iii. 195) MA, om. S.

Truly even he errs
that is wiser than the wise.

FRAGMENT 220

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 4. 18 (Hense iii. 223).

Verily a prosperous
fool is a heavy load.

FRAGMENT 221

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 18. 12 (Hense iii. 515); cp. Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists
x. 31. p. 427F omitting the source.

Bronze is a mirror
of the face, wine of the mind.

Argô
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 222

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 27. 2 (Hense iii. 6110, Arsenius,
Violet-bed
in
Paroemiographi
Graeci
i. 579. 25.

Oaths are not
surety for a man, but the man for the oaths.

Perrhaibides
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 223

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 29. 31 (Hense iii. 630).

God loves to help
him who strives to help himself.

From Euripides,
according to Arsenius,
Violet-bed
in
Paroemiographi Graeci
ii.
712. 13.

FRAGMENT 224

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 29. 24 (Hense iii. 632), Menander,
Single-verse Maxims
297.

’Tis seemly that
even the aged learn wisdom.

FRAGMENT 225

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iii. 34. 5 (Hense iii. 683) SM, om. A.

Ere thou utterest
words such as these, thou must bite thy lips.

FRAGMENT 226

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iv. 4. 14 (Hense iv. 187).

For successful
rascals are insufferable.

FRAGMENT 227

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iv. 34. 44 (Hense v. 838), Apostolius in
Paroemiographi Graeci
ii. 686.
3.

For mortal kind
taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of
smoke.

Niobê
Hartung.

FRAGMENT 228

Stobaeus,
Anthology
iv. 50. 7 (Hense v. 1022).

For age is more
just than youth.