which has been mentioned on several occasions in our Review; and we find πολλῶν γὰρ ἐσθ ̓ ἥδιον, in Suidas, V. Λάμαχος. Pax. 1140. Ου γαρ ἐστιν ἥδιον, ἡ τυχεῖν μὲν ἤδη 'σπαρμένα. û mèv Thus Aldus. Brunck has properly edited: ire' dov from a MENANDER v Kapxndow. Edit. Cleric. p. 9. B. Οψαριον, ουδὲν λαβὼν ἐψήσω φακῆν. This instance does not depend on manuscripts or editions for its authority. The short penultimate of "dov is to be attri buted solely to Casaubon, Animadv. p. 664. and Joan. Clericus. The passage in Athenæus, Edit. Ald. . p. 150. stands thus: Επιθυμήσας τῷ βορέα ἴδιον ὀψάριον ουδεὶν Ἔλαβον εψήσων Φακήν. Casaubon proposes, έπει δε θυσας τ. β. ΐδιον.-Bentley in Menand. p. 42. Επιθυμιάσας τῷ βορέα λιβανίδιον, whom Toup follows, in Suid. III. Vol. II. p. 384. but reads now, and places 'Ex d' as the close of the preceding Iambic. Whatever be the true lection, dov, even if a long penultimate were admissible, seems not to have the slightest connection with the general sense of the passage. THEOPHILUS v T Pavλ apud Athen. p. 236. Ed. Ald. xııı. p. 563. Casaub. Ἢν ιδειν ἤδιον ἐστὶν ἢ τὸ θεωρητικὸν. Casaubon, p. 563. though he praises Dalecampius's 'Allow μiv, gives: Ην ἴδιον ἰδεῖν ἐστὶν ἢ τὸ θεωρικὸν Εχουσιν ἡμῖν διανέμειν ἑκάστοτε. He should have stated that the happy change of Dewenlinds into ewpinov was proposed by Gul. Canter. in his Nov. Lection. III. V. Grotius in his Excerpt. p. 707. follows Casaubon, but reads u. In the former line, the metre will be corrected by reading: ὧν ἐστ' ἰδεῖν ἥδιον ἢ τὸ θεωρικόν. In the lection of Casaubon, Grotius, and Dalecampius, besides the false quantity, there is an error in the formation of the second foot. It is contrary to Dawes's sagacious Canon, Misc. Cr. 211. "Musas coluisse video poetas Atticos, quam quæ in vocis hyperdisyllaba ultimam correptam accentum cadere paterentur." The final syllable of "Ho cannot stand as the middle syllable of a Tribrachys in Iambics.-The examples which appear to militate militate against this Canon, except perhaps a formula or two, all require correction. * MOSCHIO apud Stob. PKB. Edit. princ. Επὰν γὰρ ἡ κρίνουσα καὶ τὰ ἡδίων Καὶ τανιαρα, φροῦδος ἄισθησις φθαρῆ. Stob. Ed. II. diw & plapy. Sic etiam Edd. III. IV. V. VI. et Grot. p. 515.-Neither d.wv nor diw, the comparatives, can be opposed to the positive anag, even if the metre were without blemish. Heat is demanded by the sense of the passage. We may read, therefore; Ἐπὰν γὰρ ἡ κρίνουσα σοι τὰ θ ̓ ἡδεα. Καὶ τάμαρα, Φ. The defect in the verse may be remedied also in another manner: but we must proceed. ΡΟΕΤΑ ΑΝΩΝΥΜΟΣ, vel ΣΩΤΙΩΝ, ἐν ̓Ασωλοδιδασκάλων apud Athen. VIII. 127. 9. Ed. Ald. Τύβαζε μανὴν, γαστρὶς οὐδὲν ΗΔΙΟΝ. This verse is the sixth in a fragment which is usually attributed to Alexis. For av, Casaubon reads Man; which is the name of a slave, in Aristophanes, Ran. 965. and in other comic writers: but he leaves the spondeus at the end of the line unnoticed. If ALEXIS were the author of this fragment; and if, in such a case, any reliance might be placed on MSS., or editions, or critics; this single Iambic would at once overturn all which has been advanced, and all which ever can be produced, respecting the inadmissibility of an apogia, Atticè, in the penultimates of comparatives in ΙΩΝ. "Hotov is fixed at the end of an Iambic. There does not appear to be any variation in the MSS. of Athenæus: the editions of Aldus, Valderus, and Casaubon, all correspond: and the critics, Casaubon, Animadv. 585. 44. Grotius Excerpt. 561. Markland, and after him Musgrave, in Eur. Suppl. 1101. *Why Moschio is termed a writer of both tragedies and comedies, it is not easy to determine. He is called, indeed, by Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom. VI. Vol. II. p. 745. inwμinds: but the fragments which have been preserved are all of the tragic cast. Let not our younger readers suppose that the Attics use the contracted form in the neuter nominatives plural from singulars in Y., For example: Ha. Thucyd. 122. 97. 372. 66. Arist. Vesp. Ar. Pax. 226. Ayia in Chor. Esch. Suppl. 112. 570. 809. Tuxéa. Antiphanes apud Stob. 91. Theb. 810. Suppl. 338. Sed hæc sunt infinita. 503. So Aguia. Beaxia. S. O. C. Bagia. Æ. S. Toup. Toup. in Suid. III. vol. ii. 286. Wakefield *, Silv. Crit. IV. p. 73. quote the verse with a seeming persuasion that the metre is uncorrupted. It must be observed, however, that the authority, by which this Iambic, ending with a cordeian dimodiα, claims to be considered as the genuine offspring of Alexis,-that Alexis who was the argus of Menander-rests on very slender arguments. Thus speaks Athenæus: VIII. 336. D. "Aλeģis—ÉV * Ασωλοδιδασκάλῳ φησίν, ὡς ΣΩΤΙΩΝ ὁ ̓Αλεξανδρεὺς ἐν τοῖς περὶ Τίμωνος Σιλλῶν· Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ ἀπήνησα τῷ Δράματι, πλέμονα τῆς μέσης καλουμένης Κωμωδίας ἀναγνοὺς † δράμαῖα τῶν ὀκλακοσίων, καὶ τουλων ἐκλογάς ποιησάμενος, ου περιέτυχον τῷ ̓Ασωποδιδασκάλω. He then remarks that neither Callimachus nor Aristophanes, nor the persons who were employed to catalogue the books at Pergamus, acknowlege such a play in the lists of those which were written by Alexis; and he proceeds: Zalwv qnoiv iv Tw δράματι. When this fragment is considered as the production of Sotion the Alexandrine, instead of Alexis the Thurian, its opposition to the laws of Attic poetry will appear of slight import. The false quantity may be thus relieved: Τύραζε, Μανή Γαστροὶ ουδ ̓ ἴδιον ἕν. 'Oude is separatim for 'Oudeis is frequent in the comic poets; and a word sometimes intervenes. Aristophanes: Plut. 137. "Οτι ουδ' ἂν εις θύσειεν ἀνθρώπων ἔτι. Equit. 573. ̓Αλλὰ διεπάλαιον ἄνθις, καὶ στρατηγὸς ἐδ' ἂν ἕις. Another instance may be cited. Suidas: Ουδένων υπο. Ατικοὶ ἀντὶ του ὑπ ̓ ὀυδένων λέγουσιν ὑπερβιβάζοντες. Kuster observes that his best MS. A., and that Photius in his Lexicon, (which is, 'Io, 'Io, still a MS. only,) read 'Ovx ip' vwv. This should probably be 'oud ip' Evwv. ενών. The penultimate is short in Homer: Ι. Ι. 597. Εναῦθα τρέψειε, φίλος, ΚΑΚΙΟΝ δέ κεν ἔτη. It is long in ÆSCHYLUS. S. Theb. 600. Agam. 867. EuRIPIDES. Hecub. 308. 1253. Phoen. 759. Hipp. 383. Alc. 313. * Musgrave quotes the passage as the production of a comic wri ter; and Mr. Wakefield cites SOLION as its author. We recollect also, many years ago, to have heard the learned Greek Professor of Cambridge mention the just title of the Alexandrian Commentator to this fragment. Respecting the number of the plays by the writers of the middle comedy, consult Casaubon in Athen. p. 584. 762. 762. Androm. 916. Bacch. 483. Heracl. 179. 327. 348. Helen. 427. 1233. laudat. à Stob. Grot. LXXII. p. 237. citat. a Stob. Grot. CVI. p. 1443 Ion. 649. 874. 1403. Electr. 1088. Alexandr. Fragm. [Musgrav.] 6. 4. Autolyc. 3. 2. Dict. 13-5Eurysth. 6. 2. Melanipp. 7. 1. Fragm. Incert. 17. 4. [apud Stob. Grot. ix. 59. quasi ex incerto Poeta; at in Excerpt. Grotü Euripidi adsignatur; et sic in imperfecta Stobai Editione à Schow ex MSS. suis.]-Fragm. Incert. 21. 2. 39. 6. SOPHOCLES. O. Tyr. 428. Antigon. 1281. Philoct. 1058. 1097. in Choro. Epigon. Fragm. 2. 2. quod Incerto tribuitur in Stob. Grot. LXXII. p-311. & Fragm. Incert. 58. ARISTOPH. Thesmoph. 203.532. The penultimate of this comparative has also been judged a common syllable. EURIPIDES (Edit. Ald.]. Orest. 499. Αυτός κακίων εγενετο, ματέρα κλανών. In this verse, if the Iota in xaxiwv be long, a Dactyl is followed by an Anapest, in opposition to Dawes's Canon, Misc. Crit. p. 250. Edit. Burgess. and this Anapest also, be it observed, occupies the fourth place. If the lota be short, an Anapest stands in the second foot, which is equally against rule; though the second Dipodia consists of a Tribrachys and an Iambus, with due regularity *. Brunck, in his note, talks as familiarly of Anapæsti, in sede secunda, and of omitted Augmenta, and of produced penultima in INN, as if had been a sworn brother to Euripides, or at least to some antient Grammarian; though all his knowlege of them. seems to consist in bursting his author's good verses with their admission or dismission, as best suits his capricious inclination. Mr. Porson has properly restored the genuine Iambic to the text, by an easy and obvious transposition: Αυτός ΚΑΚΙΩΝ μητέρ' ἐγένετο πλανών. EURIPIDES apud Clem. Alexandr. Strom. IV. p. 592. The fragment stands thus in Stobaeus, LXXI. p. 430. EDIT. tert. 1549, which may be termed ED. OPT. it is omitted in the first and second: Κακίων ἄλοχος κὰν ὁ κάκιστος γήμῃ τὴν ἐυδοκιμουσαν. Henry Stephens, who does not seem to have recollected the citation in Stobæus, thus wishes to reform the words which he found in Clemens; Schediasmat. V. 12. ̓Ανδρὺς κακίων άλοχός ἐστι πᾶσά γε We give the purport of Mr. Porson's note. This is one of the passages to which Mr. Porson alludes in his notes on Toup. IV. p. 436. "Ne longus sim, unius H. Stephani exemplo utar, qui Schediasm. V. 12. ex bonis trochais et Anapastis pessimos fecit Senarios." The same act of Legerdemain has been attempted by other critics: Casaubon in Athen. III. 235. calls the Tetrameter Iambics of Alexis, or of some other comic poet, Trochaics; and in XV. VIII. 9. 64. he attempts to change some Trochaics into Iambics; for which he is properly censured by Dorville, in Charit. p. 359.-as Grotius is by Brunck, in Sophoclis fragm. LII. p. 41. for transforming two Epic Hexameters into Anapestics.-It should not be omitted that Brunck * himself has also been induced, by a false reading in Harpocratio, V. παρακρούεται, where ὑπὸ χεῖρα stands for nie xenos, as it is in Hesychius, II. 1598, to fancy that an Iambic of Sophocles was a Pentameter of Theognis. To proceed: Grotius in his Stobæus, LXXIII. p. 309. makes the fragment consist of a dimeter anapestic and a Paremiacus: Κακίον ἄλοχος καν ο κάκιστος Γήμῃ τὴν ευδοκιμούσαν. κακίου where xaxiov must be a typographical error, instead of xxxi, as the accent may shew. In the note, the separation of the two verses is recorded: but there is no mention of any change in the termination of xaxiwv. Grotius, indeed, whether he considered the lota to be long or to be short, could scarcely have placed xxion at the beginning of an anapestic verse.-Musgrave has placed the fragment under the Oedipus of Euripides, but adopts the arrangement of the verses which stands in Potter's note on Clemens. Alex. p. 592. note 4. Πᾶσα γὰρ ἀνδρὸς Κακ ων άλοχος, καν ο κάκιστος Γύμῃ τὴν ἐυδοκιμούσαν. So that Grotius, Potter, and Musgrave, supposed that the penultimate of this comparative was short. should, perhaps, stand thus: Πᾶσα ΚΑΚΙΩΝ ἄλοχος τανδρος, † Καν ο κάκιστος Γήμῃ τὴν ἐυδοκιμουσαν. ΚΑΛΛΙΩΝ. The verses The penultimate is short Ionicè and Doricè. Homer, Il. N.52. Ελκεῖ· ἐν μήν οι τόγε ΚΑΛΛΙΟΝ, ἐδέ τ' ἄμεινον. * Lexic. Sophocl. V. agala. παρακρύνεται. + Távozóc pro To avdpoç. Esch. Agam. 1376. 1617. Eum. 46. 244. Sophocl. Ph. 36. Aj. 119. 226. 800. 817. Trach. 351–386. 798. 1256-et sic passim. Pindar. |