208 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW.

THE DATE OF THE TEMPLE OF ASCLEPIUS AT ATHENS.

IT seems to me impossible that Aristo- Memorabilia (iii. 13, 3) may refer. If this
phanes in the Plutus can be speaking of the conjecture is right it will not controvert
'AovcAiprMiov lv ocrrei, b u t I have never seen the evidence from style and material which
any objection made to that interpretation, are said by Dr. Frazer to suggest a date for
and I find that Dr. Frazer in his great work the latter temple ' not earlier than the
on Pausanias accepts it. I t may at any rate fourth century.'
be worth while raising the question. There is another bit of circumstantial
In the Vespae 121 we are told that evidence which tends to support my conten-
Bdelycleon took his father across to Aegina tion that the temple is later than the date of
to place him in the temple of Asclepius, the Plutus. I t is said in an inscription
whence it may be inferred that there was no (G.I.A. ii. 1650, noticed by Dr. Frazer) to
Asclepieum in Athens, or Peiraeus for the have been founded by a Telemachus; and
reception of patients when that play was from 1649 and 1442 this Telemachus seems
written. In the Plutus 655 sq. the words to belong to Acharnae. In fragments of
Timocles, of the Middle Comedy, a Tele-
irpSrrov p.h> avrbv eiri OdXarrav yyofn-ev... machus of Acharnae is more than once
iirtvra irpos rb Tf/wvos y/J^v TOV Oeov, mentioned:

surely imply a neighbourhood to the sea- 6 8' 'A^apviKos in

shore which can only indicate the temple at Koch, ii. 454,
Peiraeus. The deductions would be that in
422 B.C. there was no Asclepieum either at cf. 459, 461. [For these references I am
Peiraeus or Athens; that the temple at indebted to Dr. Kutherford.] If Telemachus
Peiraeus was built between 422 and 388, was founder of this temple, and also a con-
and that the 'Acn<X.rprieiov Iv aorei was builttemporary of Timocles, it is not likely that
at some date after 388, though there may it was founded until several years after the
have been a smaller shrine and a sacred well date of the Plutus.
earlier, to which possibly the passage in the G. E. MARINDIN.

NOTE ON PINDAR PYTHIAN II. 161 sqq.

Xprj 8e irpos Oebv OVK ipi^etv, (Anthol. P. 6, 103). It seems no undue
6s avi^ei TTOTS jucv Tot K«V<OV, TOT' avO' eTepois stretch of language to apply this word to
!8<I)KCV /ieya the halter of a horse as used at the present
KJSOS. aXX' ovSe Tavra voov day : it too is a rope urith a weight at the end,
latvti <f>6ovtp5>v crra.6iA,a% 8e Ttvos « \ K O - ardour) Tts. The unweighted end of the
flfvo t halter is passed through a ring at the
TrepKro-as eviira£av IXKOS oSvvapov manger and attached to the stall-collar of
€a ir potrO e KapSia, the horse. As the animal moves he pulls
irpXv ocra <ppovri8i fi.i)Tiovrai at the rope and tho weight rises or falls
(pepuv 8" eXa<^pws iirav^evtov AaySovra according to his movements. If he strains
dpiyyer TTOTI K&vrpov 8« TOI at the rope the stall-collar would naturally
S \$ gall his chest and inflict a CXKOS—wplv ocra
6Xur0r)pbs otfios. <ppovTiSi pyijTiovrai. Tv^tiv. T h u s t h e lines
would form part of the equine metaphor
It is difficult to get any suitable meaning which follows and all abrupt change of
out of 11. 166-170 if vTaOixT) is taken as = metaphor is avoided. Besides the idea of
ypa/i/x??, the line across the stadium at the unduly straining after the impossible to
starting or winning place (Fennell), and as one's own hurt is thoroughly in keeping
Mr. Fennell says ' dragging at a measuring- with the preceding lines and with the general
line is not satisfactory.' But what is a drift of the ode.
measuring-line or plummet? A rope with RACHEL EVELYN WHITE.
one end weighted, X S ^ dO Newnham College.

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