Aeschyli Tragoediae (Alt. Critical Edition)

186. aphelkos Rob.

187. The books [read]: gene (gene M.) to tede (tede M.) kart' epiththonon genos. Whence did Danaus, who just arrived in Argos, learn that the Argives are prone to vituperation? genos seems to be a bad correction. I wrote: to tede, kart' epiththonon gyne. For this is what should have been said, as it relates to this reason (to hold to a just manner of speaking): the female sex is most liable to vituperation.

188. eixen he phygas M. G. E. codex of Robortellus. ei xene phygas Sophianus. Robortellus placed punctuation after chreios.

189. Libanius in letter 79: "You were calling me to freedom of speech, as if I would bear everything that might be said by me: but Aeschylus turns back [the thought], saying that the weaker should not speak boldly."

190. phronountos M. by a second hand; by the first, phronountos. pros phronousas conjecture of Turnebus.

191. phylaxomen conjecture of Turnebus.

193. The order of the verses in the books is this: 195, 194, 196. From this to line 282, there are no speaker labels in M. G., and in the editions, they are not everywhere they should be. The reason for the dialogue itself shows why I changed the order of the verses as I did. The scholiast wisely observed at line 194 that Danaus had already sat down. But he had sat down, as was proper, at the statue of Zeus, which it is credible had been placed in the center.

195. The books [read]: me nun. Dindorf corrected it. mechanes d' esto kratos means krateito to ergon let the deed prevail, provided that he does it.

196. io Zeus M. by the first hand; by the second, io Zeu as G. E. P. Rob. me apololotas not having perished fully M. G. E. Rob.

198. The verse of the chorus' sign of the sun god seeing [them] fell out, adorned perhaps with an image of a rooster. "And of the Sun," says Pausanias V, 25, 9, "they say the bird is sacred and announces [when] the sun is about to rise." That the Sun is worshiped by the Argives is testified by an altar dedicated to him near the Inachus, mentioned by the same Pausanias II, 18, 13, which was seen on the left as one went from Mycenae to Argos.

199. kiklisketai M. by the first hand; by the second, kiklesketai as G. and the codex of Robortellus. Robortellus corrected it.

201. Plutarch cites [this] in De defectu oraculorum p. 417 F, and De exsilio p. 607 C.

202. The books [read]: eidos knowing, which Turnebus changed from conjecture to idon seeing. eugnoe M. G. P. eugnoe E. sygnoe Rob., sygnoe Turn. sygnoie Lobeck to Phrynichus, p. 347.

203. sygnoito might be forgiven, with an nu added to the first syllable by a second hand, M. sygnoito G. sygnoito Rob. Stephanus corrected the accent.

204. kiklisko M. G.

208. The books [read]: nun. Canter corrected it.

209. On koinobomia common altar, [see] Strabo XIII, p. 923; schol. Pindar to Olympian X, 58; Arnaldus on side-gods, ch. 11.