Aristophanous Thesmophoriazousai Volume 4, pt. 2

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: ...here. It is absolutely necessary to the Euripidean dialogue, but had fallen out, doubtless because the following line Commenced with the same word 'EXXijWr. (The transcribers of Aristophanes had jbeen more careful, and Markland replaced the line in the Helen from the (parody here. The five following lines, down to « x'PaSi are taken from the jHelen without any alteration except that mentioned in the next note. 910. oo-a y ex T£» itpvw To judge from those sprigs of lavender, iiov tin tit de t'trTiv tidot aypiov Xadpov, on Evpurtdi/f aaifonuXtdos KXciroOt vibs r/v bnov6ri.--Scholiast. Photius (s. v.) and Suidas (s.v. lpvif) also describe it as an aypiov aavov. But this seems an error, arising from the fact that there is undoubtedly an allusion to the poet's mother, and to the aypta Xagara which she is represented as selling, supra 387, 456. For Theophrastus, who frequently mentions it, invariably classes it with flowers, and not with potheibs. In Hist. Plant, vi. 6. 11 he speaks of it aa woody, and having a woody root; in vi. 8. 3 he says that it blossoms in summer; and in vii. 13. 7 he observes that the blossoms come before the leaves. Hesychius (s.v. «pia), after describing it both as XvBtis and as Xdx"voy, adds 4 quits Aafiavrib'a (lavandulam) KoXov/ifr. And both Stackhouse, in his " Illustrations of Theophrastus," and Sprengel, i. p. 86, identify it with the lavender plant. Euripides would seem to be wearing some lavender about him, possibly a garland round his head, as Pierson suggests, in his note on Moeris, s.v. 'Ayvta. The iipvov is mentioned again by Aristophanes in his Phoenissae. Athenaeus iii. 39. 913. Xaffc u» jc.T.X. Here we part company with the Helen, and Mnesilochus extemporizes a little series of emoti...