Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T08:14:48.721Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Song of Hybrias the Cretan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

D. L. Page
Affiliation:
Jesus College, Cambridge

Extract

The purpose of the following notes is twofold: to correct some current mis-statements about the text, dialect and metre (on which, to some extent, our judgement of the date may depend); and to draw from the text an inference about the status of Hybrias.

Athenaeus xv, 695 F seq.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1965

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 64 note 1 Μνοία and its cognates are very rare. We know no more than is reported by Sosicrates, ap. Athen. VI. 263 FGoogle Scholar, [] ; and Hermon, ibid. VI. 267c, [] ( Eust.) . Cf. Hesych. s.vv. , ( Wilam.), Strabo 12. 3. 4, Pollux 3. 83, Steph. Byz. s.v. .

page 64 note 2 Aristotle, , Politics 2. 5, 1264aGoogle Scholar 21 seq., 6 (4). 13, 1297a 29 seq.

page 64 note 3 The phrase implies that he has no other wealth; no aristocratic landowner would speak in these terms.