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On Nicander, Oppian, and Quintus of Smyrna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. L. West
M. L. West
Affiliation:
St. John's College, Oxford
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Extract

Otto Schneider, the first editor to use II, wrote , and he has been followed by Gow-Scholfield. The form is used by Antimachus, though not elsewhere by Nicander. Nicander uses tetrasyllabic forms from the stem ; he also uses

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , May 1963 , pp. 57 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1963

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page 57 note 1 Cf. Schneider, O., Nicandrea, pp. 107 f.Google Scholar

page 57 note 2 Cf. 43–73. 87–114, 128–56, 162–79, 195–206, 224–41, 260–78, 298–311, 319–34, 347–75. 385–96, 402–14. 423–32, 443–64, 483–94. 51'-36, 546–66, 573–93. 601–28. The only exception, at 392, is a variant reading. In the Theriaca it is the reader who is imagined as being bitten.

page 57 note 3 Cf. Gow's conjecture in 423.

page 57 note 4 In Eur. fr. 996, where the Minotaur is called the adjective means something like monstrosus, i.e. not the product of a successful natural birth. Cf. Od. II. 249 f.Google Scholar (= Hes. P. Tebt. 271. 2 f.Google Scholar) This does not help here.

page 61 note 1 Way omits it in his Loeb translation: ‘'Tis with travail and toil Of strenuous war that brave men win renown.’

page 61 note 2 For parallels see Vian, loc. cit.Google Scholar In Aesch, . Th. 103Google Scholar is, as Murray says, ‘vix credibile’, and Askew's is supported by Ag. 1533.