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On Two Passages of the Orestes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. S. F. Gow
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‘The populace,’ says Menelaus, ‘when roused to anger, is difficult to deal with; but if when it rages one slacks the sheet, watching an opportunity, the storm may blow itself out. And when it moderates its blasts, one may easily win one's will of it. It is capable of pity and nobility, qualities most precious to one who bides his time.’

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1916 , pp. 80 - 82
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1916

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page 80 note 1 I am not here concerned with the difficulties of 698–701, and give what I conceive to be the sense. The metaphor is nautical, and for my present purpose that suffices.

page 81 note 1 If they are an adscript, the original context may have contained the missing subject of χαλα, though I will not urge that as a reason in favour of the hypothesis.