Commentary on Apollonius: Argonautica


Commentary on Apollonius: Argonautica
By George W. Mooney
Edited by: George W. Mooney

London Longmans, Green 1912


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Introduction

Life of Apollonius

Sources of the Argonautica

The Argonautica

Other works of Apollonius

MSS. of the Argonautica

Scholia on the Argonautica

Editions and translations of the Argonautica

Commentary

Appendices

APPENDIX I: THE DOUBLE RECENSION OF THE ARGONAUTICA.195

APPENDIX II: THE METRE OF THE ARGONAUTICA.
   First four feet.
   Fifth and sixth feet.
   Caesura.
   Bucolic diaeresis.
   Influence of the digamma.
   Hiatus.
   Lengthening of short syllables.
   Synizesis.216
   Crasis.
   Apocope.
   Varying quantities.

Introduction

Life of Apollonius

Sources of the Argonautica

The Argonautica

Other works of Apollonius

MSS. of the Argonautica

Scholia on the Argonautica

Editions and translations of the Argonautica

Commentary

Appendices

APPENDIX I: THE DOUBLE RECENSION OF THE ARGONAUTICA.195

APPENDIX II: THE METRE OF THE ARGONAUTICA.
   First four feet.
   Fifth and sixth feet.
   Caesura.
   Bucolic diaeresis.
   Influence of the digamma.
   Hiatus.
   Lengthening of short syllables.
   Synizesis.216
   Crasis.
   Apocope.
   Varying quantities.

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Commentary

Summary
 
Commentary on line 1781

a)kta\s *pagashi/das: whence they had started on their voyage, v. 1. 238. Apollodorus (1. 9. 26) says that the voyage lasted four months, εἰς Ἰωλκὸν ἦλθον, τὸν πάντα πλοῦν ἐν τέσσαρσι μησὶ τελειώσαντες.