Abstract

Metrical scholia to the Agamemnon appear in the manuscripts commonly called F and Tr — also in G, but these are the same as some of those in F and are of interest only at one point. In the lyrical passages these scholia are of two types, which I shall call ‘long’ and ‘short’; Professor Eduard Fraenkel, who prints illustrative examples, has pointed out the distinction. ‘Long’ scholia give a comparatively full description of the metre of the passage to which they refer: they state adequately the number and order of the cola, classified according to the metrical system which Demetrius Triclinius learnt from Hephaestion's work.