The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus

📘 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...our city'. 580--587. These lines are difficult and, if correct, must have been explained by something conventional in the connotation of the language. For a discussion of the details, see Appendix N.--«lt causal, since, considering how, as in Theb. 351 $nat& 8? KCUVOTTTjfiOVeS, U» Airls Tl VVKTffiOV Taos p.ouv.--KOnrarai, as the style and honours of a person might be announced before him.--rcpSc: for the dative with eU6s, which is comparatively rare, cf. Eur. Suppl. 40 irdFTa yi.p Si' apaivuv ywaigl tpi-aotiv cU6t.--aol«Unuit, if correct, agrees with the dative ripir fortune's persistency? A full release from chance is also, say I, something worth. And for us who are left of the Argive host, the gain on the balance overweighs-the hurt, seeing that yon bright sun may proclaim in our honour, winging our fame over land and sea, 'Troy in old time was won by an Argive armament: and these are the spoils which, to the glory of the gods throughout Hellas, they nailed upon the temples for a monumental pride'. Hearing this, men must needs praise Argos and them that led her host; and the grace of Zeus that wrought it all shall be paid with thanks. And so I have said my say. Eld. Defeat in argument I do not deny. To be teachable is a thing that ages not with age. But the household and Clytaemnestra, whom this news should most nearly interest, must share the gain with me. supplied from v. 578 and constructed as a dative of 'the person interested', literally 'may proclaim for us flying'. For the metaphor cf. Pind. Nem. 6. 50 T4TaTai 5' ivl T xMva Ka 0adjcras TT)idv tvvn' airrwv. Here by a bolder figure the subject of the fame is said to 'fly abroad' as the fame is spread, a stretch of language which may be illus-trated from Pindar Is/Am. 3. 18 isi...