Poppo's Prolegomena on the peculiarities of Thucydidean phraseology, tr., abridged, and criticized by G. Burges

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...notable proofs from the Comedies of the day: and amongst the rest the following from Hermippus. BamXev "Zarvpwv, ri nor Ovk Ifc'Xtts Adpu fiaordfaiv dXXa Xoyots fiiv Hapd Tov tcoXtfiov deivolg rare'xtic, vfj 2' artXfa nc uwsVrijs: for so that passage ought to be read--" You bring down upon us a war in dreadful words from some one, but you support it in your heart as a man who can do nothing"--where by row some one, is meant Aspasia, to whom Pericles was said to be indebted for his speeches; while the double meaning of aTtXijs is well explained by the A6youn rrpodyti TlepucXeTie, epyourt 2' oiJt Kivei--applied to the same prime-minister by Cratinus, as stated in Plutarch i. p. 160. in i. 63. ii. 6. iv. 72. 101. vi. 71. 103. to dirMvrtt in vi. 97. viii. 106. to iiconioavTo in iii. 7. vii. 45. and to nofiiaafitvoi in ii. 79. and sometimes without yexpovc as in v. 74. roue ruiv iroKtfiitav viromroVoowc dirihotjav. 11. 92. ra tKcivdiv vKooirovla diritiooav; Sometimes too Vizovkoviovq is omitted, as in i. 54. iii. 109. iv. 14. v. 11. and once we meet with do-Kovlovs in dvtiKovro avrovQ davovlovs. Compare also iii. 109. Tlpotrtyipci 6yov irtpl atrovlQv--icai avayupiiotUQ--Kal irepl viKpwv dvaipiatwQ. Poppo indeed, p. 173. fancies a certain ambiguity to exist in the pronouns; as if truly any dispute could exist about the persons, whom the pronouns represent, and not about the demands made by the respective parties. Thus do the Germans choose rather to talk nonsense, than to suppose that Thucydides once wrote sense, rendered subsequently unintelligible by the blunders of transcribers. I" p. 194--195. In iv. 63. Ou ircpX Tov Tifibipfiaaadal nva, a'XXa Kcu &yav ei TV-)(oifiEv, poi fitv av Toiq idiaTOt£--yiyvoljXE&a--Poppo justly consid...