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MISCELLANEA HECUBA 145 (Hecuba 144-147) The case for excising Euripides' Hecuba line 145, advice from the chorus to the prostrate Hecuba, seems now complete. Kovacs and Collard have added their arguments to Heimsoeth's original suspicion, amplified in time by Barrett and Diggle, and the line stands bracketed in Diggle's OCT edition'). Yet those who would delete it have insufficiently apprecia- ted how it anticipates two important stage actions of ritual supplication to occur in the play and that it is very much in keeping with the characte- ristic Euripidean interest in reviving suppliancy at the knees as compelling ritual. In response, here is a case for keeping the line. Heimsoeth first suspected the line for its sequence -vv vv- , which would be quite rare in a non-lyric anapaestic dimeter. Barrett, followed by Diggle, found the line an interpolation for its sense: it is "intrusive between the temples [of line 144] and their gods [of line 146]". In confir- ming Diggle, Kovacs has added two arguments: first, "the suggestion that Hecuba become Agamemnon's suppliant is absurd coming from the same Trojan women who have just reported his utter helplessness in the assembly". Second, "if 145 is retained, the
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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