The Andromache of Euripides (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... as Mr. Hyslop thinks, Neoptolemus and his kin. The only surviving relative of Neoptolemns was Peleus (cp. 1. 1083, irais pbvov iratSis /idvos), and Peleus could not be included in the term yafifipoi, which could only apply to persons of Neoptolemns' own generation. 4iraiS(ok, too, shows this. 360. (3x1f5tv 6f6iXii: lit. "owe damages," i.e. "to whom I ought to pay a penalty." 361. "Such is my attitude." The nsage of fliv oSv is twofold (see Appendix). Here fUv simply opposes iiiieU to Ttjs ttjs ppevix. Toioi'Se: for gender see note on 1. 357. 362. i v is to be taken both with ppevbs and aoO. o-ov: partitive; "one thing in thee," lit. " but I fear one thing in thee in thy mind." That is, I cannot rely on your heart or judgment (which my words ought to persuade), because on a former occasion you have shown yourself a woman's slave. Observe the abruptness with which the speech ends. Almost always these long set speeches finish in a comparatively mild way--usually with a piece of moralising, as in 11. 418-20, where see note. There are several examples of this abrupt ending in the play, e.g. 11. 383, 641. Elsewhere it is very uncommon. 364. us yyvi irpos ipo-vas: "for a woman speaking to a man." it is used in a limiting way (cp. Sophocles O. T. 1118). iriaris us vofietis dviJp, " faithful, considering he is but a shepherd hind." 365. This line is generally explained, " the chastity of thy mind has shot all its shafts." This is probably wrong. ppevbs is in that case much too loosely joined to rb aSxppov. Euripides would probably have written Kal o-f)s (agreeing with (ppevbs). And by the run of the line, Qpevbs would naturally be expected to depend on ker6evaev. Moreover, in these two-...