Abbreviations used in this commentary

 

LSJ

Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (9/e 1940)

Smyth

Herbert Weir Smyth. A Greek Grammar for Colleges.

hapax legomenon

“Read once”. Generally, refers to a word that occurs once in Homer.

P.Oxy

Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

Fränkel

Refers to either Fränkel, H. 1968. Noten zu den Argonautika des Apollonios. Munich. or 1961. Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica. Oxford.

Vian

Refers to Vian, F. 1974–81. Apollonios de Rhodes: Argonautiques, vols. 1–3. Paris.

n. / nn.

Note / notes.

Wendel

Refers to Wendel, C. Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium vetera (Berlin 1935). 

s.v.

supra vide, “see below.”

editio princeps

The first printed edition.

pace:

“With all due respect to.”

<

comes from a verb following this sign.

Σ

Denotes a note in the scholia.

Rieu

Refers to The Voyage of Argo. The Argonautica. Translated with an introduction by E. V. Rieu (Penguin Classics. no. L85.). 1959. This translation is the one used by Rosemary Hulse in her readings of the text.

pf.

Perfect

ptc.

Participle

indic.    

Indicative

pl.           

Plural

abl.         

Ablative

OCT

Oxford Classical Text