Sunday, January 28, 2024
An Unwelcome Lesson
Sophocles, Electra 395-396 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
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ELECTRANote the compound/simplex verbal iteration (ἐκδίδασκε...διδάσκω), unmentioned by P.J. Finglass and J.C. Kamerbeek in their commentaries. See
Do not try to teach me to be disloyal to my own!
CHRYSOTHEMIS
It is not that that I am trying to teach you, but to yield to those in power.
ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ
μή μ᾿ ἐκδίδασκε τοῖς φίλοις εἶναι κακήν.
ΧΡΥΣΟΘΕΜΙΣ
ἀλλ᾿ οὐ διδάσκω· τοῖς κρατοῦσι δ᾿ εἰκαθεῖν.
396 εἰκαθεῖν Elmsley: εἰκάθειν codd.
- Calvert Watkins, "An Indo-European Construction in Greek and Latin," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 71 (1966) 115-119
- Robert Renehan, Greek Textual Criticism: A Reader (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 77-85
- Robert Renehan, Studies in Greek Texts: Critical Observations to Homer, Plato, Euripides, Aristophanes and other Authors (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1976), pp. 11-27
- James Noel Adams, "Iteration of Compound Verb with Simplex in Latin Prose," Eikasmos 3 (1992) 295-298
- James Diggle, Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), p. 84, n. 64 (on Euripides' Suppliant Women 811-812)
- Jeffrey Wills, Repetition in Latin Poetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996; rpt. 2001), pp. 438-443