'A Greek Inscription from Kurdistan': Postscript

Author(s): W. W. Tarn
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Source: The Classical Review, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Sep., 1929), p. 125
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 THE
Half of this Greek became known to
Dr. Kroll in time for the new edition
of his Catullus,1 and Locricos, betraying
by its blackness a tinkering of the
stereotype, now stands in his text at
LXVI. 54. The footnotes remain as
they were, but the appendix recognises
that unigena must mean 'brother'
(Zephyr).
I wish the end of the Greek poem
had been found, for Dr. Kroll's text of
Catullus LXVI. 92-94 is still afflicted
1 C. Valerius Catullus, herausgegeben und
erkl•irtvon Wilhelm Kroll. Zweite berichtigte
und durch Zushitzevermehrte Auflage. Teub-
ner, 1929.
HIENTOZO2.
IIEvroCos, the five-brancher, for the hand
(Hesiod, Works 732) has a curious parallel in
the Rig Veda 10. 137. 7, a healing charm, which
reads:
d agkhy ...
tvbpa
h~ist.bhy.m bh.kyhybhy
' With sprq.masi.
this pair of hands ten-branched we will
touch thee.'
It looks as if 'five-branch' belonged to the
original inheritance of the language.
W. H. D. ROUSE.
BACCHAE 925-6 (C.R. XLIII., p. 59).
I AMglad to have elicited so valuable a note
from Mr. J. D. Denniston. He proves to my
satisfaction (I) that ye can only be rendered
utpote with a participle, a relative or other
subordinate clause; (2) that in drama ye in
apposition sometimes introduces a new and
important fact ; (3) that this arises from its use
in answer, 'the speaker carrying on, as it were,
a dialogue with himself.'
In the Bacchae passage (I) the MS. reads
EVli; (2) the fact that Agave was
Pentheus'
tL•1rpbo mother was neither new nor im-
portant; (3) there is involved no such emotion
as, e.g., in the case of Solon contemplating the
humiliation of being a Pholegandrian instead
of an Athenian. So I still think there is some-
thing to be said for my emendation, but I was
wrong in questioning for ye a simple epexegetic
use. G. C. RICHARDS.
NOTE ON HIPPOCRATES II. TEXNHZ 5.
ra yap T70
CEEXTOO r ra
Kalt rE ppXa'00a&
wpLcot•Eva
ov ravs LMavo2
yYvovaL.
The author has just observed that people
who get well without calling in a doctor are
capable of telling what it was that cured them.
In the words quoted above he contradicts him-
self flatly. The difficulty would be reduced if
yap could mean 'freilich' (as Stahl suggested
in Rh. M., 1902, pp. 1-7, citing this passage
and others which can be otherwise explained);
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CLASSICAL REVIEW 125
with mumpsimus, despite my article in
C.R. XXXVII. (1923), pp. 57, 58.
His appendix, of five pages, mentions
also the MS. from Pskov, and says
a little new about M and R, but with
imperfect knowledge of R. Yet roto-
graphs are cheap. In R, by the way, the
poem of Benevenutus is not appended
to the text but prefixed; and both G and
R have in its first line not de but a.
The value of these five pages lies in a
few amendments of the commentary and
in many references to recent books and
articles. Thanks to these, the second
edition is even more useful than the first.
E. HARRISON.
it would be removed altogether by excising o',
as has been proposed. But neither is neces-
sary if we read the sentence as a ihetorical
question (cf. chapters 2, 4, 7).
J. D. DENNISTON.
'A GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM
tabhy.mr KURDISTAN': POSTSCRIPT.
WITH regard to my article on 4673
C.L.G.
(C.R. XLIII., p. 53), Professor Wilhelm has
pointed out to me that this inscription has
already been restored, and has kindly given me
the references which follow; and it is only right
that I should inform readers of this Review
of my failure (in company with several well-
known scholars) to discover this fact. KaibelI
read it 'HpaKX ? E4v0aKe I7arvCEL- /L?7&V
and Weinreich2 adopted this;elroal&o
neither
Kaov,
he nor Weinreich prints the gaps as given by
Ker Porter. Both use it to illustrate a distich
of which the full form was: '0 ro1v
t
KaXwXLVo
lAt rr-ain
HpaKcXTI'Ev6da'8E KaroCuel LAbi
,aKadv. Weinreich has collected the
EL•r• and variants; an inscription from
parallels
Thasos3 shows that, even on a stone, the
distich could be shortened. The distich was
written on house-doors, and was evidently well
known; subsequently some Christian saint, or
even the Deity, might replace Heracles. Wil-
helm believes that CI.G. 4673 belongs to
Weinreich's class ; that it is in its right place
over the door of the cave; and that there is no
more now to be said, except that he would
emend Kaibel's reading thus :
'HpaKX[V EvOi]~e
?0Ev
I[aroL-]d. LU KaK6v. The diffi-
[e]lo[e]XOo
culties of copyingthis inscriptionby eye were
no doubt considerable, and Wilhelm suggests
that twenty-seven letters correct to twelve
incorrectis not a bad percentage.
W. W. TARN.
1
2
Ef. Gr., in a note to No. I138.
Archyiv f eligionswissenschaft,
XVIII.,
19T5, pp. 12 ff.
'Ep.
" 'ApX., 1909, p. 22, No. 33,
EvOe68 Cited by E. Peterson, 'HpaKX•
E O"E6,
p. 54, KarTOKE•.
n. I.