{"title":"Second Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/S0068673500006246","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"III. Mr BARNETT read a paper on the kafA.Tra8r]<popia of Aeschylus, Agamem. 314. Aeschyl. Agam. 314, TrpwTo<s KCU TtXeuTatos = ' last in a series ' ; cf. Herod, ix 28. I would translate 'the successful runner is he who is last in his series,' i.e. in the taxis competing in the Lampadephoria. There is no evidence that the principle of the running was not the same (scil. SiaSo î;) in the Panathenaia Prometheia and Hephaistia alike (perhaps too in the Bendideia); Pausan. I 30. 2 is utterly untrustworthy. See Wecklein, Hermes 1873. 440 f. So in Agam. Klytaimestra compares each beacon to a member of a taxis of \\afx.Trafh]<p6poi; and as it is the last Aa/xTra8?;<£dpos of the series who gains the victory for his taxis, so it is the last of the beacon fires which brings the series of fires to a happy issue by flashing the message home. [With this use of the adjective for ' last ' cf. Schol. Pind. N. X 57, TO irptarov","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500006246","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}