Aristophanous Eirēnē

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...See further Miss Harrison, Proleg. Greek Rel. pp. 111-113. That it was an old-fashioned festival, rather out of date, is evident from Nub. 984, ipxati. ye xal AiTou!5ri (sie). It should not be identified (as by Suidas, s.v.) with the Aidcria (Nub. 408, Thuc.i. 126), which took place in Anthesterion (Schol. Nub. I.e.). 'ASwvia. A festival to Adonis and Aphrodite, about which evidence is slight. See Diet. Ant. i. p. 25. 422 dXiKaKu. A title chiefly applied to Apollo, though he is more often styled iworpircuot in this capacity. At a later time it was given to Heracles. G Xpa eVi/SaXXeiy (rid) (Nub. 933, etc.) comes the rarer eirijSdXXeix Ttvl in the same sense; on like analogy, from fVdpois tz xe'Pas faXXey (Od. ix. 288), Aristophanes perhaps indulges in a similar intransitive use of eVtdXXeiy, "lay hand to" the work. But idXXeii', throughout Homer, Aeschylus, etc., is found with a smooth breathing, and in Nub. 1299 we have 4i iriaKu (sc. T6 KtvTpov). The view taken in printing 'nakovftcv is that a copyist was anxious to improve upon a pun which in pronunciation was already obvious enough, while oiSi 0iaXeis in Vesp. 1348, a careless mistake possibly due to the influence of this passage (see infr. 752, note, fin.), should be changed to oi5' exiaXeis. Little can be made of fr. 552, and Phryn. fr. I, but that little all tells in favour of the above view; in the former passage (from Schol. Vesp.) the unaspirated imXatiney is quoted in support of 0iaXe?s (sic), and in the latter eVidXas is made to pun with 'EidXnjs. 433-4 These words are assigned to Hermes by MSS. (those which mark the speakers), the Aldine and Schol. They are most appropriate to him, and it is hard to see why Dindorf took them away, and why he is followed...