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Fascicolo | Num. 42 (n.s.) – Giugno 2024 – Fasc. 1
Articolo | Pind. Nem. 11.11: Ἀρκεσίλαν o Ἁγησίλαν? Considerazioni intorno a una varia lectio

Pind. Nem. 11.11: Ἀρκεσίλαν o Ἁγησίλαν? Considerazioni intorno a una varia lectio

Abstract

This article focuses on the varia lectio Ἀγησίλαν provided by cod. B instead of Ἀρκεσίλαν, for Pind. Nem. 11.11. Ἀγησίλαν is usually rejected as unmetrical (Henry) or corrected into Ἁγεσίλαν (Maas), but the comparison with other Pindaric proper names – such as Ἁγησίας, Ἁγησίδαμος and Ἁγησίμαχος – suggests that we print Ἁγησίλαν (Schroeder). This form would provide a metrical responsion between hemm and cho cr which is attested also in Aristoph. Vesp. 274 Æ 282. By adopting Ἁγησίλαν, we should infer that the father of Aristagoras of Tenedos, the young laudandus of Nem. 11, was named Agesilaos: if so, we could not exclude that Aristagoras’ brother was Theoxenus, the other ‘son of Agesilaos’ (υἱὸν Ἁγησίλα) praised in Pind. fr. 123 Maehl., as Schneider first suggested. 


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Presentato: 10 Dicembre 2022 | Accettato: 24 Novembre 2023 | Pubblicato 03 Luglio 2024 | Lingua: it

Keywords Textual criticismAristagoras of TenedosTheoxenus of TenedosFree metrical responsionsΚατ’ ἐνόπλιον-epitriti


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