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Xenophon Anabasis 1.10.12: The Shield That Became a Lance

Xenophon Anabasis 1.10.12: The Shield That Became a Lance 112 Miscellanea / G. Martin / Mnemosyne 60 (2007) 112-116 Xenophon Anabasis 1.10.12: Th e Shield Th at Became a Lance Aft er the battle of Cunaxa, Artaxerxes’ cavalry withdraws to a hill. Th e Greeks pursuing them realise that the standard of the Great King (and thus Artaxerxes himself ) is in the midst of these troops. In modern editions, the description of the standard is given as follows ( An . 1.10.12): καὶ τὸ βασίλειον σημεῖον ὁρᾶν ἔφασαν , ἀετόν τινα χρυσοῦν ἐπὶ πέλτης [ ἐπὶ ξύλου ] ἀνατεταμένον . ἐπὶ ξύλον F ἐπὶ ζυγοῦ Vollbrecht, del. D’Orville D’Orville 1) was followed in athetising ἐπὶ ξύλου by Masqueray and Hude in their more recent editions. Marchant in his OCT preferred daggers. One reason why scholars were dissatisfied with the text is a scholion on the passage that men- tions that doubts about the genuineness were raised already in antiquity: ἐνῆν καὶ ταῦτα ἔν τινι παλαιῷ ἔξωθεν μετὰ ἀστερίσκου . 2) Th ese doubts seem to be confirmed by the explanation (in another scholion and in Hesychius) 3) that the word πέλτη means ‘lance’. Finally, in a passage of the Cyropaedia (7.1.4) the σημεῖον of Cyrus is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Xenophon Anabasis 1.10.12: The Shield That Became a Lance

Martin, Günther
Mnemosyne , Volume 60 (1): 112 – Jan 1, 2007
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112 Miscellanea / G. Martin / Mnemosyne 60 (2007) 112-116 Xenophon Anabasis 1.10.12: Th e Shield Th at Became a Lance Aft er the battle of Cunaxa, Artaxerxes’ cavalry withdraws to a hill. Th e Greeks pursuing them realise that the standard of the Great King (and thus Artaxerxes himself ) is in the midst of these troops. In modern editions, the description of the standard is given as follows ( An . 1.10.12): καὶ τὸ βασίλειον σημεῖον ὁρᾶν ἔφασαν , ἀετόν τινα χρυσοῦν ἐπὶ πέλτης [ ἐπὶ ξύλου ] ἀνατεταμένον . ἐπὶ ξύλον F ἐπὶ ζυγοῦ Vollbrecht, del. D’Orville D’Orville 1) was followed in athetising ἐπὶ ξύλου by Masqueray and Hude in their more recent editions. Marchant in his OCT preferred daggers. One reason why scholars were dissatisfied with the text is a scholion on the passage that men- tions that doubts about the genuineness were raised already in antiquity: ἐνῆν καὶ ταῦτα ἔν τινι παλαιῷ ἔξωθεν μετὰ ἀστερίσκου . 2) Th ese doubts seem to be confirmed by the explanation (in another scholion and in Hesychius) 3) that the word πέλτη means ‘lance’. Finally, in a passage of the Cyropaedia (7.1.4) the σημεῖον of Cyrus is

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