More about Aeschylus Septem 10–20

A. Y. Campbell

doi:10.1017/S0009840X0005602X

More about Aeschylus Septem 10–20

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009

A. Y. Campbell

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A. Y. Campbell: Affiliation:
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Information: The Classical Review , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , September 1931 , pp. 115 - 117

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X0005602X [Opens in a new window]

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^{page 116 note 1} As already suggested by Tucker; but his long note on 17 suffers (rather characteristically) from too many incompatible ingenuities; his translation (q.v.) is its own reductio ad absurdum.

^{page 116 note 2} The homely forceful realism of such an image might well seem authentic Aeschylus; but observe also the association here of the three ideas, (1) the trouble children are to rear, παιδεας τλον, (2) a Nurse who (3) exercises two professions at once, is πανδοκες as well as τροφες. Everyone will then immediately remember that other Nurse, Cho. 752 πολλ … τλσῃ, 760 , 761 διπλς χειρωναξας. I further suggest that Plato so understood and therefore so construed our passage. Laws XI. 918E is, I think, the only other place in Greek where πανδοκεσαι appears in one sentence with μτηρ and τροφς. There Plato says that if (among other things) the vocation of inn-keeping were pursued by the best people, women as well as men, we should see it honoured . It must be remembered that Plato not only (like most good Athenians) knew his Septem well (Rep. II. 362A), but knew particularly (like Euripides) this prologue: Euthydemus 291D; cf. also Rep. III. 414E .