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The Lakonian Key

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

David Whitehead
Affiliation:
University of Manchester

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‘I can make nothing’, declared Paul Cartledge in this journal some years ago, ‘of the “Lakonian key” first attested in Aristophanes (Thesm. 423)’. (For other attestations see Aristophon, Peirithous, fr. 7 Kassel-Austin; Menander, Misoumenos, fr. 8 Sandbach (10 Koerte); Plautus, Mostellaria 404–5, cf. 419–26.)

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1990

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1 Cartledge, P. A., ‘Spartan Wives: Liberation or Licence?’, CQ 31 (1981), 84105, at 102 n. 109.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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3 3 ξ⋯νους τοὺς ⋯Φικνουμ⋯νους τ⋯ ὃпλα ⋯μΦανκα⋯ пρ⋯χειρα Φ⋯ρειν, κα⋯ εὐθὺς αὐτν пαραιρεσθαι, κα⋯ αὐτοὺς μηδ⋯να ὑпοδ⋯χεσθαι, μηδ⋯ τοὺς пανδοκ⋯ας, ἄνευ τν ⋯ρχ⋯ντων, τοὺς δ⋯ ἄρχοντας ⋯пογρ⋯Φεσθαι κα⋯ пαρ' τ⋯νες, ὂταν κατ⋯γωνται. (10) τ⋯ς δ⋯ ν⋯κτας ὑп⋯ τν ⋯ρχ⋯ντων τ⋯ пανδοκεα ἔξωθεν κλε⋯εσθαι. δι⋯ χρ⋯νου δ⋯ τινος, ὅσοι ἄν ταλαпε⋯ριοι αὐτν σιν, ⋯κκηρ⋯ττεσθαι όμ⋯ρους δ⋯ ἣ κατ⋯ пα⋯δευσιν ἣ κατ' ἄλλην τιν⋯ χρε⋯αν ⋯пιδημοντας ⋯пογρ⋯Φεσθαι.

4 Lehmann, G. A., ‘Krise und innere Bedrohung der hellenischen Polis bei Aeneas Tacticus’, in Studien zur antiken Sozialgeschichte: Festschrift Friedrich Vittinghoff (Cologne, 1980), pp. 7186, at 71.Google Scholar

5 See, e.g., Schaefer, H., ‘Xenelasia’, RE ix.A.2 (1967), 1436–8Google Scholar; Whitehead, D., AncSoc 13/14 (1982/1983), 105–30, at 129.Google Scholar

6 See Diels, H., Parmenides (Berlin, 1897), pp. 141–5Google Scholar, cf. Antike Technik3 (Leipzig and Berlin, 1924), pp. 52–5.Google Scholar