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On "Triballic" in Aristophanes (Birds 1615)Author(s): Joshua WhatmoughSource: Classical Philology, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan., 1952), p. 26Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/265522Accessed: 17/05/2010 16:47

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NOTES

AND

DISCUSSIONS

ON "TRIBALLIC"

IN

ARISTOPHANES

(Birds 1615)

Some years

ago (HSCP,

XXXIX

[1929],

1-6)

I

discussed

an

inscribed South

Italic

vase, showing

that it contains

a

fragment

of

Dorian farce. I now learn

that Altheim

(Geschichteder lateinischenSprache

[1951],

p. 427), like Krahe, whom

he

quotes,

thinks

that the plain

Greek

O6?

t-rp>

&pov "Pick

up the basket"

is "kom6dienmessapisch."

In

this

he

apes A. D.

Trendall

(Fruh-

italiotische

Vasen [1938], p. 25).

But

it

is

absurd for

Trendall, who knows

evidently

no

MIessapic, to

sit in judgement,

even

with

Beazley to emulate. The retrograde

di-

rection of the

writing is paralleled exactly

by

Walters

(Ancient

Pottery,

1I

[1905],

262) (also

Doric); and if it were not,

still

there is nothing in vopcxpetrTrXo which

can

be

Messapic. The word

O6?i?ttnp

(i. e.,

6X-

F?ttrp) is justified

irn

my paper

already

cited; cf.

o'

Awptdq

6Xpoxo

(ibid.,

p.

4),

i. e.,

OXFcx.

But Trendall

seeks to justify his "comedy

Messapic" (comedy Messapic forsooth)

by

an

appeal to what

he

considers Triballic

in

Aristophanes

-

comedy

"Triballic"

forsooth

He

gives no reference. But

the

reference

is plain. It

is Birds 1615, 1627,

1677-78; and

these (except 1615) are all

as much Greek as

?vLTpLt?Y)5

in 1530. So

the commentators;

but it is

Greek with a

Thracian flavor

(cf. P-W, s. v. "Thrake";

Sprache 410.40)

I

write

this note only because

I

have

the correct

reading at 1615

vmooaotpe5,

(the oxr3cXope5 of

Suidas is merely a

further step

in the

corruption), which,

it

is suggested by

Green and other editors,

stands for

v'

with a divine name, in the

accusative.

That

name,

I

now see, is the

Thracian

epithet

of Zeus

BXao5p8oq,

see

DAG,

243,

which

may

be

a

derivative of

the

pre-Keltic belsa

"campus"

of

Virg.

Tolos. (ibid., 158). Cf. the local names

Belsa (ibid., 179,

modern Beauce, Orlean-

nais), Belsinum

(Gers; ibid., 84). Read,

therefore,

v'

(or

vc&

) BXaoi5p8ov.

The

meaning is

"Campestris,"

which is used

of a god in CIL, II, 4083 (cf. VIII,10760

with

Diz. Epigr. 4.617, and Campesium in

EE, IX, 1005,

references which I owe

to

A. D. Nock). The

alternation rp: 8p bet-

ween Greek and

Thracian is normal.

JOSH UA WHATMOUGH

HARVARD

UNIVERSITY

NOTE

ON

LUCAN

7.257-58.

haec est illa dies mihi quam Rubi-

conis ad

undas

255

promissam

memini, cuius

spe

movi-

mus

arma,

in

quam

distulimus

vetitos remeare

triumphos,

[haec

eadem

est hodie

quae

pignora

quaeque

penates

reddat

et

emerito

faciat

vos

Marte

colonos]

haec, fato

quae teste

probet,

quis

iustius arma

260

sumpserit;

haec

acies

victum

factura

nocentem

est.

257 258 om. ZMUV et cum 256 et 259 (ob

csrma bis in fine

positum) P,

in

quo

man.2

256 et

259 addidit, non hos duos;

habent

GZ2,

non interpretantur c a, eiecit Ouden-

dorpius, ex 346-8 et

I

340-5

ut videtur

confictos. nec

ferri potest haec (dies) quae

hodie

reddat et absurde versu 258 eis

praedia

quibus 265-7 ius mundi

promittit:

accedit ut his

interpositis disiungantur

sensus

inter se cohaerentes.1

These

lines form part

of an exhortation

addressed by Caesar to his veterans before

the

battle

of Pharsalus.

Verses 257-58 may

be

interpolated

and

are

expelled by

Hous-

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