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THE CLASSICAL QUARTERLY EDITED BY S.J. HEYWORTH, M.A., PH.D. P.C. MILLETT, M.A., PH.D. BOARD OF MANAGEMENT PROF. J. DIGGLE, LITT.D., F.B.A. (Chairman) (representing the Cambridge Philological Society) A. F. GARVIE, M.A. D. N. SEDLEY, M.A., PH.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. PERCIVAL, M.A., D.PHIL. M. SCHOFIELD, M.A., PH.D. R. WALLACE, B.A., M.A. (representing the Council of the Classical Association) A. M. BOWIE, M.A., PH.D. (representing the Oxford Philological Society) NEW SERIES VOLUME XLVI (Volume LXXXX of the continuous series) OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1996 Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP OXFORD GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO DELHI BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN MELBOURNE AUCKLAND and associated companies in BEIRUT BERLIN IBADAN MEXICO CITY © Oxford University Press, 1996 Printed in Great Britain by the University Press, Cambridge New Series Volume XLVI 1996 (Vol. LXXXX of the continuous series) CONTENTS NUMBER 1 Structures of care in the Iliad M. LYNN-GEORGE The myth of the hoplite’s hoplon J. F. LAZENBY AND D. WHITEHEAD The moving posset once again: Heraclitus fr. B 125 in context S. N. MOURAVIEV Purification and pollution in Aeschylus’ Eumenides K. SIDWELL Chains of imagery in Prometheus Bound J. M.M OSSMAN The urine and the vine: Astyages’ dreams at Herodotus 1.107-8 C. PELLING ‘Off with her AJ49222”: Herodotus 1.8.3-4 D. L. CAIRNS Phaidra’s pleasurable aidos (Eur. Hipp. 380-7) W. D. FURLEY The ‘Kallias decrees’ (JG i*® 52) and the inventories of Athena’s treasure in the Parthenon L. J. SAMONS II Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily C. J. MACKIE On ‘the one’ in Philolaus, fragment 7 H. S. SCHIBLI Against Vlastos on complex irony J. GORDON Aristotle on business S. MEIKLE The art of deceit: Pseudolus and the nature of reading A. R. SHARROCK Silanus <and) Murena (/.Priene 121) C. EILERS The manuscripts of Cicero’s De oratore: E is a descendant of A D.S. A. RENTING Verse-technique and moral extremism in two satires of Horace (Sermones 2.3 and 2.4) K. FREUDENBURG Sabinus, the Heroides and the poet-nightingale. Some observations on the authenticity of the epistula Sapphus G. ROSATI The Lex Irnitana, ch. 84, the promise of vadimonium and the jurisdiction of proconsuls G. P. BURTON Finances, figures and fiction W. SCHEIDEL What every grammarian knows? C. ATHERTON A new fragment of the historian Theseus A. CORCELLA Heliodoros: serious intentions K. DOWDEN SHORTER NOTES The proper meaning of yaa at Aeschylus, Supplices 870 A. G. KEEN Aeschylus, Eumenides 174-8 N. GEORGANTZOGLOU Alcibiades vs. Phyrynichus M. L. LANG On the metrical inscription found at Pergamum (SEG 39.1334) L. LEHNUS Aelian, Varia historia 8.1 and the transmission of [Plato], Theages 128d2-3 M. A. JOYAL Roscius and the roscida dea C. WEBER Catullus 61.90—6 B. GEORG Lucretius, D.R.N. 5.948 A. ALLEN Octavian in the Fourth Georgic A. 8. HOLLIS Propertius and ‘Coan Philitas’ A. ALLEN Restorations in Livy 9.40: a reassessment S.J. NORTHWOOD Ps.-Seneca, Octavia 889 and Vergil, Aeneid 12.539ff. R. FERRI NUMBER 2 €6vos and yévos in Herodotus C. P. JONES Themistocles’ speech before Salamis: the interpretation of Herodotus 8.83.1 A. J. GRAHAM How to avoid being a kKomodoumenos A. H. SOMMERSTEIN Punishment and the physiology of the Timaeus R. F. STALLEY Aristotle’s knowledge of Athenian oratory J. C. TREVETT The actions of Philip II in 347 and 346 B.c.: a reply to N. G. L. Hammond J. BUCKLER The fragments of Furius Antias W. W. BATSTONE The integri of Cicero’s Topica M. WINTERBOTTOM Hirtius and the Bellum Alexandrinum L. G. H. HALL Propertius 3.7.1—12 A. ORLEBEKE Virgil, Aeneid 5.835-6 D. SANSONE ‘The golden age is proclaimed’? the Carmen Saeculare and the renascence of the golden race D. BARKER Dio of Prusa and the Flavian Dynasty H. SIDEBOTTOM Statius and insomnia: allusion and meaning in Silvae 5.4 B. J. GIBSON Writing, copying, and autograph manuscripts in ancient Rome M. MCDONNELL Diiudicatio locorum: Gellius and the history of a mode in ancient comparative criticism A. D. VARDI Image and ritual: reflections on the religious appreciation of classical art J. ELSNER Ammianus Marcellinus 15.13.1—-2: some observations on the career and bilingualism of Strategius Musonianus J. W. DRIJVERS *Marcellinus’’ Life of Thucydides: criticism and criteria in the bicgraphical tradition J. MAITLAND SHORTER NOTES A further allusion in the Eumenides to the Panathenaia B. H. WEAVER History as lunch: Aristophanes, Knights 810—19 J. MARR A note on pseudo-Xenophon, The Constitution of the Athenians 1.11 G. BECHTLE Euripides, Phoenissae 64f. A. KERKHECKER Hipponicus’ Trapeza: humour in Andocides 1.130-1 Cc. A. COX On the construction of the ‘Syracusia’ (Athenaeus V. 207 A-B) F. MEIJNER AND A. W. SLEESWYK A note on Catullus 63.5 B. CURRIE Mythological incest: Catullus 88 S. J. HARRISON Two conjectures in Horace, Odes H. JACOBSON Revisiting Evander at Aeneid 8.363 R. REES Two problems in Martial P. WATSON AND L. WATSON Plutarch, De Stoicorum Repugnantiis 1048DE G. BOYS-STONES An emendation in Porphyry’s commentary on Ptolemy’s | Harmonics S. D. OLSON AND I. SLUITER Correction ~ . ‘ aeN eg penes t * sat>e aeeha Seeee Se