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Ringing Welkins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. L. West
M. L. West
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London
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The paradoxographer Apollonius (Mirab. 40, p. 53 Keller) preserves the memory of a singular occurrence which Aristoxenus (fr. 117 Wehrli) had recorded as having happened in southern Italy in his own time. A strange insanity afflicted women. They would suddenly leap up in the middle of dinner, hearing the call of a voice, and rush out into the country.μαντενομένοις δ⋯ τοῖς Λοκροῖς κα⋯ ‘Ρηγίνοις περ⋯ τ⋯ς ⋯παλλαγ⋯ς το⋯ πάθους εἰπεῖν τ⋯ν θεόν, παι⋯νας ἄιδειν ⋯αρινοὺς †δωδεκατης† ⋯μέρας’

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , May 1990 , pp. 286 - 287
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1990

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1 Diog. Ath. TrGF45 F 1, A.R. 1.1139, Phalaecus, A.P. 6.165; cf. Aesch. fr. 57, Pind. fr. 70b.9, Phot. s.v. ṕ⋯μβος

2 See my The Orphic Poems (1983), p. 157Google Scholar with nn. 59 and 60 and literature there cited.

3 cf. Monier-Williams, M., Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), p. 1047Google Scholars.v.Śaṅkhà; Sachs, C., The History of Musical Instruments (1940), p. 152.Google Scholar