Volume 4

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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    “ contained in burned earth, has come to Argos in the “ variegated circumference of vases'. It is not unlikely that the word A0ENEON alludes to this great festival; called Athencea before the title of ret ’A0nva7ct was changed to ra IIocvodhivoiicc,. This is said to have happened after the time of Theseus or Ericthonius2 3 4; although the term ra ’AOrjvcua, occur in the modern Scholiast on Aristophanes. According to Mr. Blomficld, the word in question is the old genitive, from ’A6rjmi\ Yet it must be observed, that the use of A0AON with the genitive of a city is very unusual; and another learned Hellenist, R. P. Knight, Esq. believes that it never was thus used, nor with any other ’AyuvoQlrrig. Mr. Knight adheres to the opinion that A0ENEON means thc festival; but he does not carry back the antiquity of the vase much beyond the sixtieth Olympiad, five hundred and thirty-six years before the Christian rera: allowing, however, for the age of this remarkable vase, a period equal to two thousand three hundred and fifty-one years. It remains now to add a few words respecting the other subjects treated of in this and the preceding Sections of (2) Where see the Scholiast. (3) Ister in Harpocrat. v. ITavadtjvaia, et Pausanias viii. 2. See Meursius Panath. p. 2. et Schol. Platon, p. 39. (4) Horn. Od. y. 2/8. Aristoph. Nub.400. (See Porson’s Coll, of the MS. Harl. p. 14.) 2oi/vtov aKpov ’AOrjviuv. Euphorio ap. Hermog. tt. t. p. 248. arpta 0r\p.ov 'Adqvuv. MS. Caio Gonv. ’Adrjvaiuv, i.e. ’Adtjvbuy, which is the true reading. Note by Mr. Blomfield. _ VOL. IV. C