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1 Reading “invisas” with Heinsius.

2 Reading “visceribus,” a 16

th-century emendation for “vulneribus.” Cf. HO 947.

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3 The Latin admits of two meanings here: the son can fear the father, or the father the son. Both

fit the house of Tantalus. See Tarrant (1985) ad loc. 4 Facinus is Bentley’s conjecture for the ms. reading fratris.

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5 Tarrant (1985) ad loc believes line 58 to be spurious.

6 Reading patrios with the majority of the mss, rather than patruos.

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7 Reading sacer, as per Gronovius’ emendation, rather than sacras, with the mss.

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8 Following the reading of the E mss from 179-83.

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9 For the double meaning of this line, see Tarrant (1985) at loc.

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Reading E’s rabidus rather than A’s rapidus. 11

This line is missing in the A mss.

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I seem to have reproduced the Loeb translation word for word in line 406. The same muse

breathed on me and F.J. Miller, I guess.

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Following Tarrant (1985) ad loc, who suggests the presence of volition here.

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Reading magna with E.

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Again, a line identical to the Loeb’s.

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Tarrant (1985) ad loc notes: “Atreus’ last play on words is especially brilliant. The ostensible

meaning is ‘a cup that belongs to our family’…but also present is the sense ‘a drink consisting of

your gens, with wine poured on it.” 17

This half-line is Loebian.

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It’s hard to render the dyspeptic pun here. Tarrant (1985) notes ad 403 that the Stoic idea of

death weighing heavily on the non-philosopher is picked up here in a rather gruesome way.

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Reading manuque.

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