206

Πρωτεσίλαος (fr. 42)


The passage is composed of anapaestic dimeters (and paroemiacs) mixed
occasionally with anapaestic monometers, what White labels anapaestic
hypermeter; in general, White 1912 §§321-32.85
Discussion Valckenaer 1767. 218B; Toup 1778. 371-2 (sect. 43); Wakefield
1790. 89-90; Elmsley 1803.191; Jacobs 1809. 89-90; Dobree 1820. (130); Meineke
1823. 83-5; Dobree 1831 1.369; 1833 II.304-5; Bergk 1837. 42-3; Meineke 1840
III. 182—90; Bothe 1844. 37-9; Emperius 1847. 311; Meineke 1847. 584-7; Bothe
1855. 426-9; Meineke 1857 V.clxxviii-clxxix, 81; Meineke 1865. 96; Meineke
1867. 59-60; Haupt 1872. 386-7; Herwerden 1872. 85; Bergk 1883 II.543-4 n. 73;
Kock 1884 II.151-5; Schmidt 1886-1887 III.139; Kock 1888 III.737; Blaydes 1890a.
82-3; Blaydes 1896.124, 333; Blaydes 1898.186; Pickard-Cambridge 1900. 55-8,
187; Herwerden 1903. 98-9; Blaydes 1905. 325-6; Richards 1907. 160 (= 1909.
80); Wifstrand 1934. 214; Edmonds 1959 11.62—9; Webster 1970. 18, 30; Harvey
1980. 84; Long 1986. 116; Nesselrath 1990. 214-15, 252-3 (cf. 255 n. 38, 256 n.
44), 261 n. 54, 262 n. 56, 267, 272-3, 284; Kassel-Austin 1991 II.260-4; Di Marzio
1998; Wilkins 2000. 278-81; Testart and Brunaux 2004. 623-4; Sanchis Llopis et
al. 2007. 261-4; Power 2010. 299-300; Rusten 2011. 466-8
Citation context Book 4 of Athenaeus opens with a long description of the
wedding feast of Caranus of Macedon (128a-30); at the conclusion of this
description, parallels are sought among Greek dinner parties (as opposed to

85 White’s analysis of the meter in these terms is both convenient and conventional,
but for an examination of its validity see West 1982. 95 (in brief) and 1977. 89-94
(more expansive); contrast Parker 1997. 56.