TY - JOUR

T1 - "HERW[ERDEN] BESSER FORT"

T2 - SHOULD HE 'GO', OR IS HE 'BETTER'? EUR. MEDEA 109

AU - Kostyleva, Tatiana V.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This note discusses one of the largely superfluous conjectures unearthed by J. Diggle and given an honourable place in his otherwise very succinct and efficient apparatus criticus. Reported by none of the recent editors, and earlier by Prinz-Wecklein and Verrall, Herwerden's in Euripides' Medea 109 is an undesirable change of the sound, if idiosyncratic, mss. reading . Diggle, however, having (independently) conjectured the same word, patched together arguments for it. An additional attraction this conjecture gained in his eyes was due to his misreading of the remark (quoted in the heading) Wilamowitz made proofreading the first volume of Murray's OCT in 1901. While Wilamowitz discouraged Murray from reporting this conjecture with his usual "besser fort", Diggle, on passing acquaintance with the letters, took it to mean "Herw. besser fort[asse]", thus corroborating his point.

AB - This note discusses one of the largely superfluous conjectures unearthed by J. Diggle and given an honourable place in his otherwise very succinct and efficient apparatus criticus. Reported by none of the recent editors, and earlier by Prinz-Wecklein and Verrall, Herwerden's in Euripides' Medea 109 is an undesirable change of the sound, if idiosyncratic, mss. reading . Diggle, however, having (independently) conjectured the same word, patched together arguments for it. An additional attraction this conjecture gained in his eyes was due to his misreading of the remark (quoted in the heading) Wilamowitz made proofreading the first volume of Murray's OCT in 1901. While Wilamowitz discouraged Murray from reporting this conjecture with his usual "besser fort", Diggle, on passing acquaintance with the letters, took it to mean "Herw. besser fort[asse]", thus corroborating his point.

KW - Euripides

KW - Medea

KW - Diggle

KW - conjectures

KW - critical apparatus

U2 - 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2016.116

DO - 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2016.116

M3 - статья

VL - 11

SP - 170

EP - 173

JO - Philologia Classica

JF - Philologia Classica

SN - 0202-2532

IS - 1

ER -