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Some Textual Reassessments in the Teubner Menander
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Sixty years have now passed since Lefebvre first published the Cairo papyrus of Menander (Fragments d'un manuscrit de Menandre, Cairo, 1907), and Körte's still authoritative third Teubner edition (Menandri quae supersunt, pars prior, Leipzig, 1938, reprinted in 1955 with addenda by Thierfelder) appeared almost exactly halfway between then and now. It laid the coping-stone on the labours of many scholars, of whom four rose head and shoulders above the crowd:
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page 224 note 1 Wilamowitz, , Gnomon, v (1929), 465.Google Scholar
page 224 note 2 Hense, , B.P.W. 1911, 37.Google Scholar
page 224 note 3 A.J.P. Ixii (1941), 104.Google Scholar
page 224 note 4 An honourable exception must be made for DrDedoussi, with her admirable edition of the Samia (Athens, 1965).Google Scholar
page 224 note 5 In addition to Jensen's, Sudhaus's, and Körte's various editions of the Menandrean papyri, see also Körte, , S.B. Leipzig (1908), 87 ff.Google Scholar; Jensen, , Rh. Mus. lxv (1910), 539 ffGoogle Scholar. and Hermes, xlix (1914), 382 ff.Google Scholar; Sudhaus, , Menanderstudien (Bonn, 1914)Google Scholar; Gueraud, , B.I.F.A.O. xxvii (1927), 127 ff.Google Scholar
page 224 note 6 Menandro: Le commedie. Edizione critica e traduzione, i (Milan, 1966)Google Scholar. See my review in C.R. xviii (1968), 33 ff.Google Scholar
page 224 note 7 Nach. Cött. 1907, 315.Google Scholar
page 225 note 1 Jensen's, edition, p. xii.Google Scholar
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page 226 note 1 See also Ulbricht, , Krit. und exeg. Stud. zu Menander (Diss. Leipzig, 1933), 29 f.Google Scholar; Webster, , Studies in Menander, 27.Google Scholar
page 226 note 2 LSJ s.v. 
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page 226 note 3 Hence Beazley can write of a figure on a vase ’The woman is spinning; therefore she is respectable’ (J.H.S. li [1931], 121Google Scholar; cf. Rodenwaldt, , Arch. Anz. 1932, 7 ff.Google Scholar). Cf. also Xen, . Oec. 7. 5Google Scholar, Lac. 1. 3Google Scholar, and on the background Ehrenberg, , The People of Aristophanes, 148 f.Google Scholar, and Heichelheim, , An Ancient Economic History, ii. 98 (and bibliography on 207 f.).Google Scholar
page 226 note 4 A further small pointer to the incorrectness of Wilamowitz's attribution is the use of 
that it incorporates. If all v. 38 is spoken by Daos, 
must qualify the noun 
but 
in Attic ‘does not go with real substantives’ except when preceded by the article (Thesleff, , Studies on Intensification in Early and Classical Greek, 71). 
as the answer to the question 
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page 226 note 5 e.g. at Epit. 302 fGoogle Scholar. (van Herwerden, , Mnem. xxxviii [1910], 216Google Scholar; Coppola, , Riv. Fil. lix [1931], 252 f.Google Scholar), Dysk. 288Google Scholar (Phoenix, xviii [1964], 119 ff.Google Scholar), Sik. 371 f.Google Scholar (Kassel, , Eranos, xliii [1965], 3 n. 7).Google Scholar
page 227 note 1 On this aspect of the Hecyra see especially Schadewaldt, , Hermes, lxvi (1931), 5 ff., 11.Google Scholar
page 227 note 2 The important contributions are Bodin, , R. Phil, xxxii (1908), 74 f.Google Scholar; di Stefani, , B.P.W. 1910, 476Google Scholar; Capps, , A.J.P. Ixv (1944), 175 ff.Google Scholar; Maas, , A.J.P. lxvi (1945), 63.Google Scholar
page 227 note 3 As di Stefani notes, if Smikrines had previously met the charcoal-burner, and this had been mentioned in an earlier scene, then it would have been unnecessary for Daos to have added the explanatory 
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page 227 note 4 At Dysk, . 430 I accept with Handley the Bodmer papyrus's marginal
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page 227 note 5 The most judicious assessment of the reliability of papyri part-indications (dicola, paragraphi, marginal names) is now Handley, in his edition of Dysk., pp. 44 ff. (with useful bibliography).Google Scholar
page 228 note 1 Cf. Fraenkel, , Elementi Plautini, 247 f.Google Scholar; Drexler, , Hermes, lxiv (1929), 368 f., n. 1Google Scholar; Marti, , Untersuchungen zur dramatischen Technik bei Plautus und Terenz, 20 f.Google Scholar
page 228 note 2 On the accent, which the editors of Menander get wrong, see Herodian, , i. 153, ii. 859, 926 LentzGoogle Scholar; cf. Schwyzer, , Gr. Cram. i. 542Google Scholar.—Syros is a character in Menander's Messenia (according to the Mytilene mosaic: cf. Mette, , Lustrum, x [1965], 17Google Scholar), Georgos, and perhaps also Dyskelos (a rnute), if Maas's conjecture at v. 959 is accepted; cf. Terence's H.T. and Adelphae, where admittedly the Roman poet may have altered the Menandrean names. Syriscus/-iskos, on the other hand, seems to be the name of a mute in Terence’s Eumuhus, which derives from Menander. But here is a problem that vitally affects the issue at Epit. 94, whether my tentative conjecture there be accepted or not. On every occasion that the name Syriscus/-iskos appears in Greco-Roman comedy, it is in the vocative (Ter, . Eun, 772, 775Google Scholar; Ad. 763Google Scholar; ?Men, . Epit. 94Google Scholar), and in the Ad. passage is occurs not as the real name of the character so addressed but as a Koseform of the name Syrus 
Donate, ad loc). How then can one be sure that Syrisce at Ter, . Eun. 772 and 775Google Scholar and 
, if correct at Epit. 94, are not equally Koseformen for Syrus/Cúpor? As I have said, the Cairensis’ marginal CYP/ could serve equally well as the abbreviation for 
page 228 note 3 Cf. Daux, , B.C.H. lxxxvi (1962), 875 f. (with plate).Google Scholar
page 229 note 1 This rather than 
(although that would now be the name of the charcoalburner), for reasons of dramatic logic. If 
is conjectured and assigned to Smikrines, it comes up against the difficulty discussed in (ii) above; but if these words are given to Daos, a reply by the charcoal-burner such as Bodin's 
is now essential, thus making the addition of a participle to Daos' next sentence, which I find highly desirable, impossible.
page 229 note 2 Cf. Jensen, , Hermes, xlix (1914), 193.Google Scholar
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page 229 note 4 Cf. Post, C. R., H.S.C.P. xxiv (1913), 143.Google Scholar
page 230 note 1 Croiset, , 1908 edition of L'ArbitrageGoogle Scholar; Cantarella, , 1945 translation L'ArbitratoGoogle Scholar; Grassi, , Atene e Roma, vi (1961), 146.Google Scholar
page 230 note 2 Cf. Croiset, , loc. cit.Google Scholar
page 230 note 3 Berlin, S. B., 1907, 862; cf. his edition, ad loc.Google Scholar
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page 230 note 5 Sudhaus, and Jensen, (loc. cit.) plump for ENGoogle Scholar; Lefebvre (1911 edition), Körte, and Jensen at an earlier stage (Rh. Mus. Ixv [1910], 545 f.Google Scholar) plump for PA; Guéraud, (B.I.F.A.O. xxvii [1927], 136)Google Scholar avers that both readings are possible. Cf. also Körte, , S.B. Leipzig, 1908, 128.Google Scholar
page 230 note 6 For Körte's 
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inexplicable); Leo's own 
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page 231 note 1 Restorations in Menander, 9.Google Scholar
page 231 note 2 On the phrase 
see now Whittle, , C.Q. ix (1959), 57 ff.Google Scholar
page 231 note 3 e.g. from Hense, , B.P.W. 1908, 319 f. For a typically concise and cogent refutation of two such supplements, see WilamoGoogle Scholar witz's edition, ad loc. (his v. 304).
page 231 note 4 In his edition.
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page 232 note 1 Sudhaus, and Jensen, (Rh. Mus. Ixv [1910], 554)Google Scholar originally read the trace or traces after the delta as A, but Jensen was less sanguine later (Hermes, xlix [1914], 398Google Scholar; cf. his edition). Guéraud, , B.I.F.A.O. xxvii (1927), 140 f., prefers to read E followed by N. The photograph here is virtually useless.Google Scholar
page 232 note 2 Men. fr. 888, in which someone appears to be ridiculed as a ‘Thriasian Oedipus’, may come from a similar context (cf. Meineke, , Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiae, p. 279Google Scholar). Plaut, . Poen. 443 f.Google Scholar is a blood brother to the Andria passage, but in typical Plautine dress (Fraenkel, , Elementi Plautini, 12).Google Scholar
page 232 note 3 Capps, , Four Plays of Menander, and van Leeuwen's second 1908 edition, respectively.Google Scholar
page 233 note 1 B.P. W. 1908, 95Google Scholar; cf. Mnemosyne xxxvi (1908), 347.Google Scholar
page 233 note 2 On the precise meaning of 
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page 233 note 3 Cf. Jensen, , Rh. Mus. Ixv [1910], 568 n. 1Google Scholar, and Hermes, xlix [1914], 412Google Scholar; Körte, , S.B. Leipzig, 1908, 98.Google Scholar
page 233 note 4 Indeed 
fits the gap and traces in Pk. 112 just as well as 
but then we should expect 
rather than the naked participle.
page 234 note 1 Leipzig, S. B., 1908, 98 f.Google Scholar and Rh. Mus. lxv (1910), 568 n. 1Google Scholar respectively. Sudhaus identified the traces of the final letter (a more or less vertical stroke) as ω, not Ν, and calculated the gap before it as twelve letters, of which the sixth, seventh, and eighth might have been IIPO. From the photograph, which may be very unreliable here (it is not easy to be certain where precisely the gap ends), I should myself tentatively estimate a gap of ten or eleven letters.
page 234 note 2 Cf. Headlam, , Restorations in Menander, 27Google Scholar; Blomfield’s, Glossarium in P.V. (his edition, pp. 201 f.).Google Scholar
page 234 note 3 Rh. Mus. lxiii (1908), 289 n. 2.Google Scholar
page 234 note 4 Marginalia Scaenica, 223 ff.Google Scholar
page 235 note 1 Guéraud, , B.I.F.A.O. xxvii (1927), 143Google Scholar, however, identifies the letter after 
as E rather than H. If this interpretation is correct, it must imply a scribal mistake, since only 
meets the combined demands of metre and sense in this context. Yet H and EI are easily confused in P when only certain fragments of the letters are discernible: see my suggestion on Pk. 157.
page 235 note 2 Jensen, , Rh. Mus. lxv (1910), 569 n.Google Scholar, claims a loss of only seven letters here, but this must have been a rare instance of pure error on Jensen's part (cf. Post, L. A., C.Q. xxiii [1929], 210Google Scholar, and A.J.P. li [1930], 84). The photograph clearly reveals a gap of nine or ten letters.Google Scholar
page 235 note 3 In his 1919 edition, after an idea by Körte. The same suggestion was made independently by Schmidt, , B.P.W. 1921, 717.Google Scholar
page 235 note 4 Four Plays of Menander, ad loc.
page 235 note 5 Jensen, 414, observed that 
is corrected in P from 
which appears to have been a false anticipation of the word in v. 146.
page 236 note 1 So, e.g., van Leeuwen (second 1908 edition), Allinson, , AND Ulbricht, , Kritische und exeg. Studien zu Menander (Diss. Leipzig, 1933), 46 n. 47.Google Scholar
page 236 note 2 So Sudhaus, followed by Jensen, , Körte, , AND Wilamowitz, (Hermes, lxii [1927], 294 f.).Google Scholar
page 236 note 3 Cf. Moorhouse, , C.Q. xiii (1963), 23 f., in his authoritative study of 
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page 236 note 4 Cf. also Jensen, , Rh. Mus. lxv (1910), 570 n.Google Scholar
page 236 note 5 B.P.W. 1930, 841Google Scholar, amending his earlier note in S.B. Leipzig, 1908, 103 f.Google Scholar
page 236 note 6 By Ulbricht, , Krit. und exeg. Studien zu Menander, 48 n. 59Google Scholar, Körte, , AND del Corno, , for instance.Google Scholar
page 237 note 1 Cf. also Mnemosyne, xxxvii (1909), 233.Google Scholar
page 237 note 2 By Milverton, Lord (Units Multorum), for instance.Google Scholar
page 237 note 3 ‘Un lieu commun de la poésie érotique’, writes Lasserre, La Figure d'Éros dans la poésie grecque, 51Google Scholar; cf. also Pichon, , De Sermone Amatorio, s.vv. Furor, Vesani.Google Scholar
page 237 note 4 
was suggested by Richards, , C.R. xxii (1908), 48Google Scholar, and Sudhaus, , Rh. Mus. lxiii (1908), 297Google Scholar; 
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page 238 note 1 
was suggested first by Headlam, , op. cit. 18Google Scholar, and Leo, , Hermes, xliii (1908), 158.Google Scholar
page 238 note 2 Rh. Mus. lxviii (1913), 361Google Scholar. Cf. Rubenbauer, , Der Bau des jambischen Trimeters bei Menander (Diss. Tubingen, 1912), 129 f.Google Scholar
page 238 note 3 Jensen's attempt to get round this difficulty by bringing Daos out on to the stage with Moschion (his edition, on v. 344) will not do. Daos has no part in this scene, and there is no dramatic point in ordering the withdrawal of a man (353a) whose previous advance has not been justified or even mentioned.
page 239 note 1 Pap. Berlin 9767. The first publication of this text (Berliner Klassikertexte, v. 2, edited by Wilamowitz, and Schubart, , 115 ff. and plate 6) is, as one would expect, a model of its kind. Schubart particularly was able to decipher ‘nach unsäglicher Mühe’ much in a way that appears miraculous to those with only the photograph to work from. Inevitably there are occasions where the first editors' divinations and supplements seem unacceptable. At w. 37 f., for instance, the product of Schubart's decipherment is hardly Greek (pace Wilamowitz's footnote!), but it is difficult to think of any replacement which will match the tenuous traces.Google Scholar
page 239 note 2 Cf. Kühner-Gerth, , ii. 344 f.Google Scholar
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page 239 note 4 Cf. Austin, C., Gnomon, xxxix (1967), 122Google Scholar, quoting Sandbach, on Men, . Dysk. 559.Google Scholar
page 239 note 5 Emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis Reliquias, 37, published under the pseudonym of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis at Utrecht, 1710.
page 240 note 1 Not 
(Grenfell and Hunt). This phrase is not used by Menander, so far as one can tell, as a structurally independent answer (‘certainly not’), but always as part of a larger syntactical unit (Dysk. 69, 147, 218, frs. 408, 591Google Scholar). Cf. also Thesleff, , Studies on Intensification in Early and Classical Greek, 76 ff.Google Scholar
page 240 note 2 Mr. F. H. Sandbach was kind enough to read and criticize this paper before its publication. Through his considerate efforts certain imperfections have been removed. What remains, however, is entirely my own responsibility. (For a positive statement of Sandbach's own views on Heros 47Google Scholar and Epit. 770–1Google Scholar, see now Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc. cxciii [1967], 37 ff.)Google Scholar