Plautus and the Fabula Atellana
Plautus and the Fabula Atellana
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普劳图斯和《阿特拉纳神话》
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10.1017/s0009840x00050976
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1930
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W. Beare
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W. Beare
As H. Richards has remarked, ' It seems impossible to make sense of irpanovs avayeva vfias.' [See his convincing article in C.R. XVII., or in Aristophanes and Others, p. 25.] No subsequent editor seems to have answered R.'s objections and justified the text. The sense we require is, to quote R. again, something like this: ' I thought my cleverest play, the play which cost me so much labour, would be sure to meet with your approval.' I submit that the desired sense is obtained by reading vpa>Tr)v r^laxf avaK7)pvTTeo-0', ^ irapiffx MK-T.X., i.e. ' I thought my cleverest play, the play which cost me so much labour, would be declared victorious by the herald in the theatre; then, contrary to my deserts, I retired defeated by a gang of clowns.' If my suggested emendation is correct, the stages of corruption are not obscure. •fj^Ltocr' avaK^ptrrreffdai having been glossed by the explanatory phrase irpcoTTjv rj^Uoa' dvayopevaai v/ia<i, these last two words were mistakenly incorporated into the text, supplanting dva/cripvTTeaOcu, and at some time or another avayopevaai, by a mere slip of the pen, was written as avayevaai, with the consequence that Trpcbvrjv was ' corrected ' to TrpwTovs in conformity with the supposed sense. The unfamiliar rhythm of Eupolideans would make the unmetrical substitution of avayopevaai v(ia<; easier to the copyist. The aorist of dvayopeva, though apparently un-Attic, occurs frequently enough in late writers {vid. Veitch sub voc). Both dvaicrjpvTTa) and dvayopeva) are commonly used, in conjunction with some such word as viKt^opot, to express the sense of 'proclaiming as victor,' whether in the theatre or elsewhere. (See Liddell and Scott under these words, and add Aristeides, Vol. II. p. 2, Dind., 'TOVTOV arefyavovv Kai irpStTov dvayopeveiv.') That dvaKripinreiv could be glossed by dvayopeveiv is proved by the scholion on Aristoph. Plut. 585.