The variant reading εἷλε in Cyr. Juln. 5, 31, 40 (a passage belonging to a quotation from Euripides’ The Trojan Women) is observed in manuscript V only. Riedweg’s edition (2016) considers it deterior if compared to εἷλκε of the potiores. But it should perhaps be reconsidered, because the same variant reading already belongs to the Euripidean manuscripts, and because Alcaeus (fr. 298, P.Oxy. 2303, I century AD), telling the same myth of the violence perpetrated by Ajax the Lesser against Cassandra, uses the participle ἔλων. We could perhaps believe that already in a primitive phase of the literary codification of the myth, the idea of grasping forcefully to immobilize and rape was competitive with that of dragging (εἷλε / εἷλκε).
Nota a Cyr. Juln. 5, 31, 40
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2019-01-01
Abstract
The variant reading εἷλε in Cyr. Juln. 5, 31, 40 (a passage belonging to a quotation from Euripides’ The Trojan Women) is observed in manuscript V only. Riedweg’s edition (2016) considers it deterior if compared to εἷλκε of the potiores. But it should perhaps be reconsidered, because the same variant reading already belongs to the Euripidean manuscripts, and because Alcaeus (fr. 298, P.Oxy. 2303, I century AD), telling the same myth of the violence perpetrated by Ajax the Lesser against Cassandra, uses the participle ἔλων. We could perhaps believe that already in a primitive phase of the literary codification of the myth, the idea of grasping forcefully to immobilize and rape was competitive with that of dragging (εἷλε / εἷλκε).
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