To/for us.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "Nothing better, but more suitable." He was claiming that
Tereus would tell us two.[2] "So best for us two to die [...] as bravely as possible." "Better for us to drink bull's blood; for the death of
Themistocles [is] preferable." So
Sophocles is saying about
Themistocles: "for me [it is] best to drink bull's blood."[3]
See also
nu 540.
[1] cf. a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 15.217;
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon; etc.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 124 (web address 1), with scholion.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Knights 80-81, 83-84 (web address 2), with scholion. On
Themistocles see generally
theta 124,
theta 125. Adler's note to the present entry cites '
Sophocles fr. 663 [sc. Dindorf]', and the scholiast claims, on the authority of
Symmachus, that this last sentence of it is indeed a quotation from a lost Sophoclean tragedy, making this earliest of allusions to
Themistocles' alleged death in this way (fr. 178 Radt).
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