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Euripides, Orestes 895–7*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

S. P. Oakley
S. P. Oakley
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Emmanuel CollegeCambridge
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Extract

Students of the play have not appreciated the merits of W. Dindorf's proposal to delete lines 895–7: his conjecture is not reported by most editors; when reported it is not accepted; and it has been taken seriously perhaps only in an iobiter dictum of Wecklein. Nevertheless, the arguments in its favour are even more powerful than Dindorf realised

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , May 1992 , pp. 271 - 273
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1992

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References

1 First proposed in Poetarum Scenicorum Graecorum…fabulae superstites et perditarum fragmenta 5 (London, 1869), Part III, p. 109.Google Scholar

2 See e.g. the editions of Paley, F. A. (Cambridge and London, 1879)Google Scholar, Wedd, N. (Cambridge, 1895)Google Scholar, Weil, H. (Paris, 1904)Google Scholar, Wecklein, N. (Leipzig and Berlin, 1906)Google Scholar, Murray, G.2 (Oxford, 1913)Google Scholar, Chapoutier, F. (Paris, 1959)Google Scholar, Di Benedetto, V. (Florence, 1965)Google Scholar, and West, M. L. (Warminster, 1987).Google Scholar

3 See e.g. the editions of Nauck, A.3 (Leipzig, 1893)Google Scholar, Wecklein, N. (Leipzig, 1900)Google Scholar, Biehl, W. (Leipzig, 1975)Google Scholar, and Willink, C. W. (Oxford, 1986).Google Scholar

4 Bursian's Jahresberichte 20 (1892), 238Google Scholar; but note Wecklein's practice in his editions.

5 This point was made by Dindorf.

6 Porson, R., Euripidis Orestes (London, 1798), p. 67.Google Scholar

7 Matthiae, A., Euripidis Tragoediae et Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1813–1829), vi 212–13.Google Scholar

8 There is no instance in LSJ.

9 See, however, the note ad loc. in Dawe's, R. D. edition of the play (Cambridge, 1982)Google Scholar for the problems of this last passage.

10 See Nauck, A., Bull. Ac. Imp. St Pétersburg 22 (1877), 95.Google Scholar

11 See Schmidt, F. W., Kritische Studien zu den griechischen Dramatiken (Berlin, 1886–1887), ii.359–60.Google Scholar

12 See Vitelli, G., SIFC 1 (1893), 24.Google Scholar

13 In one respect, however, they are perhaps not entirely without merit: the expressive πηδσι in 896 puts one in mind of Q. Dellius, the desultor bellorum ciuilium (Sen. suas. 1.7).