The Cyclops of Euripides Author:Euripides 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. 1900 Excerpt: ...139, irup.a Aiovvaov. Perhaps Silenus used Aids yda contemptuously, as it were, 'Adam's ale.' Wecklein reads G. R. Holland's irv6s. 137. i... more »pus... irpiirei. Lit. 'For light becomes wares': in a provincial Americanism, 'I don't trade "sight unseen ",' 141, Mrfpuv. Maron in Od. ix. 197, is called the son of Euanthes, (according to Eustathius and Schol. to Apollon. Rhod. iii. 996) a son of Dionysus. Pliny, xiv. 4, makes mention of wine of Maron. Athenaeus quotes from Clearchus, 'Lesbian wine which Maron himself seems to have been maker of.' (Athen. i. 28c) Athenaeus, i. 33a?, speaks of Maron, however, as only a companion of Dionysus. So the ancient authorities made Maron out to be either a son or grandson of Dionysus, and a priest of Apollo. At any rate he seems to have been the traditional inventor of wine. Cf. with the above references, also Cratin. Fragm. 135 K. The derivation of the name Maron is said to be from 'la---/iiapos, the name of the city ufterwards called Mapiiceia--whence Mdpaw, the eponymic hero. Cf. Helm, Kulturpftanzen und Hausliere, 6. Anfl. p. 552. 142. raiaSe. The Aid. has ira!S'. Kirchhoff and most editors prefer raiuSe (Flor. 2). 144. aipaai velis. ai cCus may be a resolved irrational choree-_ (Schmidt, sec. xvi., 2). Some editors have thought it preferable to insert the paragogic v after aifAaai for the sake of the metre. 145. SS'... yipov. Nauck and Kirchhoff adopt Hermann's eJiropgs, for the MSS. ils opps. There must have been magic properties about a wine-skin which could withstand, without replenishment, the potations of Silenus and afterwards of Polyphemus, cf. infra, 147; Od. ix. 210. 146. Nauck suggests a lacuna after v. 146, and his conjecture seems highly probable. 147. val Sis. Boissonade would write /cai for val. 149....« less