But no change is required. "That αἰῶνα
should stand in apposition to λιτὰς καὶ
κληδόνας seems unnatural to our ears only
because we (rightly as a matter of science)
connect αἰών (αἰών) life with aevum and
take it to mean Ze, life-time. But the


ἔθεντο.
AFAMEMNON. 28


f
φράσεν δ᾽ ἀόζοις πατὴρ μετ᾽ εὐχὰν


fi m^ 5
δίκαν χιμαίρας ὕπερθε βωμοῦ
^ ^
πέπλοισι περιπετῆ παντὶ θυμῷ
προνωπῆ λαβεῖν
ἀέρδην, στόματός T€ καλλιπρῴ- 245


Greek poets did not so limit it. They
associated it mainly with ἄημι and dlw /o
breathe, and took it to mean properly
life-breath. Thus Euripides, guided prob-
ably by this and other similar phrases of
Aeschylus, actually wrote ἀνέπνευσεν
αἰῶνα (fr. 787 Dindorf) drew breath, and
the same conception underlies many com-
mon phrases, such as Ψυχὴ xal αἰών,
αἰὼν πέφαται, αἰῶνος στερεῖν, which ex-
clude altogether the idea of ‘time’. See
also Eur. Zo. 1532 δεῖξον σὸν αἰῶνα
μέλεον, bs ἕλκεις μακρόπνουν foav, where
the two associations of ‘time’ and ‘breath’
are subtly mingled. Thus αἰῶνα παρθέ-
vecov here exactly marks both the feeling
of the warriors and the cruelty of their
feeling.— For παρθένος as a term, from the
soldiers’ view at the moment, of contempt,
cf. παρθενωπός girl-faced Eur. El. 949 μὴ
παρθενωπὸς ἀλλὰ τἀν δρείου τρόπου.
243. πέπλοισι περιπετῆ wrapped in
(1.6. wrapping herself in) Aer rodes: con-
trast 7. 240.-προνωπῆ : Tpovevevkviav
schol. dent or bowed forward.—mavr...
