1273, Cyd. 330; KOV tv Kav KOAVK€v i£ T not write *et XP°VV /SpaSus, nor here, I TO T' apo-ev ail TO KeKpy/x/J-ivov Ai^vov. think, K&V fi,rj8kv fp7rHYPOPHORA IN ISAEUS.
The Rehdantz-Blass Rhetorical Index to were put into the ordinary interrogative Demosthenes has an excellent article on class; but these are not questions. The hypophora, but does not refer to the five interrogative interpretation is barred out extant instances of the use by Isaeus of by the use of the hortatory subjunctive in what became in Demosthenes the stereo- the similar passage, Dem. xx. 75 : AXXa vr] typed form with vi] Ai'a or /xa. Aia. The Aia TOV iratSa TOV Xafipiov irepuSeDyney dipaipe- passages follow. OevTa TT)V aTeXetav K.T.X., if not by vrj Ai'a Isaeus, iii. 24 tcrtus yap T}V v-r] Aia irdptpyovitself, which is an expletive here indicating Ka\ ^avAov, irepl ov TTJV €K/j.apTvp(av irapa. TOV impatience, and very nearly equivalent HvperiSov acrl Troir/a'ao'Oai ovroi, ma~re ouSev (except in its associations) to the improper Oavfiao-rbv oXiy(i>pr)8fjvai jjv TO trpay[ia. Kai " D— it! " This impatience is shown very irws; clearly in Dem. xxi. 148 : TiVog yap eiveKa ; Is. iii. 73 aXXa. vr] Aia dXXov TWO. irotijora- ' TSV orpaTiryicov.' aXX' ov8e Kaffi ambv /u.evos TU>V o-vyyevS>v eSwicev av €Xelv T0V "Xrjpov OTpa.Tiwmj'i K.T.X. ' dAAa TS>V A.oya>v. iv ois 1 xai Tr)v OvyaTtpa T-ijv iavrov; xat TI OUTOV ISei Koivjj [lev oiSkv iraMTOT etir' dyaObv K.T.A. .. .aire)(6to~0ai K.T.X. ' yepou? ctveica, v>) Aia.' Is. iv. 20 dAAa vr) Aia, iireiSr) TOVTWV ouSev Quotation marks will make the true in- iiroirjO'e, Trrv ovo~iav TOV NucoCTTpotTou Sit^tipicrev ; terpretation more distinct, and will show dXXa KOI TaJra /J.e/xapTVprjTat vfniv. just what is to be considered as a quoted Is. iv. 24 jixa Ai' aXX' OVK ttrrw 6 "Ayvcov objection. o£S' 6 'AyvoOea TOV NtKOo-TpaTou otryyevijs, o>s Is. iii. 24 to-o>t yap ' rjv vi) Aia irdpepyor oi aarrSiiKoi tpao~iv, aXX'' ercpot. lireiTa T(3... Kai iXa>v ovrtav, Kal TOVTIO TI;V oio-iav l8a)K£v; V avyyevatv ISOJICO' av lxilv T0V ^V' iAAa TOST' r)v aSr/Xov K.T.X. pov Kal TT)V dvyaTtpa rr)v iavrov.' Kal TL These five passages fall in three orations, airov eSei K.T.X. of which one is held to be the latest extant Is. iv. 20. ' dAAa vr) Aia,' lirei.hr) TOVTWV work of the orator, another is one of his oiSiv iiroirjo-e, ' Tr)v oio-iav TOV NtKOO"TpaTOW later works, while for the third no criterion 8i£^£tpi(T£v.' dAAa Kal TaSra K.T.A. of date has been found. Is. iv. 24. '/tta At", dAA' OVK ZO-TIV 6 "A.yvu>v The careful reader will observe that the olo" o 'AyvoOeos TOU NiKoo-TpaTou o~vyyevr)s? interrogative punctuation of the early o>s ol dvriSiKoi V THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 109
•i\a>v ovnov, KOX Tovrto rr)v overlay than the 'ironical force' which has often aX\a TOVT r)v aSrjXov K.T.A. been assigned to it. To three of these passages, Dareste in his I have not noticed hypophora with v»j A«» translation of 1898, has given the idio- before Isaeus, except in Andocides iii. 15, matic interrogative form, neglecting the ' aXXa. vi) Aia ews av AaKeSaifioviovi KarairoAe- -expletive. In iv. 20, he seems to have /A»7crV KaOtcrTwrav vo/uo)v TOUS (rvvov- Demosthenes makes a more dramatic use Tas' (cf. ib. ii. 7. 3 and 6). of this figure than Isaeus, e.g. Dem. viii. 17. One of the earliest instances of hypo- ri iroirja-0/j.ev av ort Xeppovrjcrov ly ; ' Kpivov/iev phora in prose, is in Herodotus vi. 124, Aioirtfflr), vr) Aia.' ical Tt ra irpdy/iar ecrrat where the historian rejects the report that jSeXrid); ' dAA' iv6ev8' av /Borjdrjo'aifi.tv avroi.' at the battle of Marathon the Alcmaeonids av S' wo TS>V irvevfiMTiov fir) 8vva>fi.e6a ; ' dAAa were in communication with the Persians: /ia AC oix v£ei-' And viii. 50. TT6T U> dWci yap io"«)s TI €7rt//.e/x^>d//.cvos 'A$rjvaioiv T avSpes 'AOrjvcuoi TO. Seovra iroieiv iOeXr/aofiev ; Srjfiw wpoeSiSocrav rg irarpiSi, which is * orav vr) At" avayKarov ij.' aAAa K.T.A. properly to be printed as a statement of the In Demosthenes, we may observe, too, enemies of the Alcmaeonids. I have not this figure becomes so fixed that the vr) Ala noticed hypophora with y»/ Ata in Plato. is used with a verb in the first person refer- The most striking example of the figure in ring to the speaker, as xviii. 117. vr) Ai" that author is Republic 365 c-366 A : ' dAAa dAA.' dSiVcos r)p£a. tira iraputv ore fi ciri(ri Tts, ' oi paSiov del XavOavtiv Kaicov oi Aoyiorai, ov KaTr/yopeis; Most editors put ovra.' ovSi yap aAAo ovhiv £UTT€Tes, r)V fieydXiav...' dAAa. S77 fleoiis ovre Xavddvtiv •can hardly be separated from the passages ovTe /3iao"aLysias
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