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MISCELLANEA 709 THE METRE OF STESICHORUS PMG 15/192 oék ¦!tƒ ¦tumo! lñgo! oðto! , oédƒ ¦ba! ¤n nhu!Ün eé!¡lmoi! oédƒ ákeo p¡rgama TroÛa! . The traditional text of this famous fragment, as it appears with eé!¡lmoi! (not Blom eld’s widely favoured ¤#!!¡lmoi! ) in Plato, Phaedrus 243a, has recently been defended by Professor Bruno Gentili. 1 ) He justly draws attention to the verse that features recurrently (ten times, without variation) in Pindar’s Ninth Pythian, whose strophes and antistrophes, with the colometry as generally corrected, 2 ) begin with the pattern: 1 || 2 || 3 || In the light of this, we must allow that Stesichorus may have antici- pated Pindar as inventor of the verse . We might even (as Gentili does not) consider the possibility that Pindar’s pattern directly echoes Stesichorus, with similarly in second place, con- trastingly anked by identical verses with the cadence . But we may well harbour doubts. The rst and third verses of the Pindaric strophe, like so much in Pindar, have an idiosyncratic character, presumably as a combination of the rising element with D ( paroemiac ); and the same may well be true of the second
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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