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trial all that had shared in the bad business were charged with
bloodshed and forced to plead in defence of their action. So the
Water-carriers blamed the men that whetted the axe and knife'
The men that whetted the axe and knife blamed the man that
handed the axe. The man that handed the axe blamed, not indeed
the man that first struck the ox1 (for he had left his axe and fled),
but the man that completed the slaughter with his knife. The man
that completed the slaughter with his knife blamed the knife'
Finally the knife, since it could not say a word in its own defenc^
was condemned as guilty of the bloodshed and cast into the sea •
It thus appears that the real culprits, the man that first struck the

irapavTLKa d<pel07] Kpidels Kal is rbSe ava irav £tos Kptverat. Momrasen Feste d.
p. 514 n. 2 justly remarks that d<pel8r) must here mean 'was acquitted' because a
lines before, in the clause irpiv 1) Qyo-ebs dtpelBi], Pausanias had used the same wo
that sense. B. Tamaro also in the Annitario della r. scuola di Atene e dells Wt
italiane in oriente 1921—1922 iv.—v. 5 (cp. id. 'La Bouphonia' in the Cronaca
Belle Arti 1920 p. rof.) accepts that meaning. Even H. von Prott, who holds t'iatwaS
axe was really cast out of the country, does not deny that Pausanias meant ' the axe
acquitted' and is reduced to supposing that he must have misunderstood his au ^
{Rhein. Mus. 1897 Hi. 194 n. 1). L. Deubner Attische Feste Berlin 1932 p. 159 tt _ej
admitting that von Prott's solution is possible, inclines to adopt an emendation prol ^ g
by E. Pottier in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. ii. 270 n. 24 and printed in the ^.^gp
certainty by H. Hitzig acpdStj <es Bd\a<x<rav> (cp. Paus. 1. 3. 1 d^ieis 0ij<reis " ^° ;nt
Sjc/poi/a). But this expedient confuses the axe with the knife and misses the whole p
of the situation. „i)s
1 In Porph. de abst. 2. 30 (context supra p. 577 n. 1) &v 8f) al /J-tf v5po<p0P°t g>

tqv E7rL<t<pd£avTa, Kai b tovto Spdcas tt}v fxax^t-pav, ko.6' t/s oileijs d(p&v°v r^V ' ^ fie

aKovqaavras avrCiv tjtlwvto fidWov, oi Si dKov^aavTes rbv €7nS6vra rbv TrAe/W^ ^bvoV

Ka.Te"yvu(7av the text is sound. A. Nauck wanted to read oSros

irardl;as> rbv <r<pd£avTa and J. Bernays printed oStos Si <t'ov rard^ai'Ta, 0 ^ goo^
eiriacpdtiavTa. But obviously 6 Trard^as could hot blame anybody, for he had ^nia ^ ^
his escape. In fact Pausanias says: oi Si are rbv HvSpa Ss ISpave rb Ipyov ovK « tg

\.

strictly speaking, we can only render the phrase, as H. von Prott in the Rhein- pe$te

SIkijv inrdyovai rbv wiXeKvv (1. 24. 4). P. Stengel in Hermes 1893 xxviii. 49+ ta'ce^ -gut;
mean that the bystanders did not know where the doer of the deed was to be fou°

Hi. 198 insists, ' not knowing the man that had done the deed.' Probably Momrnset ^

d. Stadt Athen p. 514 is right in saying: 'Die Ubrigen Versammelten thun s°'bene getf
sie den, der das Rind erschlagen, nicht kennten, und flihren das am Orte geblie^ ^ js

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vor Gericht.' Yet Stengel Opfcrbrauche der Griechen Leipzig—Berlin 19Iu v erstehn
dissatisfied: 'Der Erklarung Mommsens...steht das are entgegen : man wird de1'
haben, sie wissen weder den Namen noch sonst etwas Naheres von dem
plotzlich erscheint, den Stier totet und sofort wieder verschwunden ist. ^ Or0."

- Porph. de abst. 2. 30 (context supra p. 577 n. j) TrX'JJ/Otio-aPTes Si TV" "^r0ggl; ^>llt
irpbs TTjv Kplaiv dxdwcriv, KaTeirovrwiTav r-q" p.dxo-ipav. J. Bernays cj. icaraTT ^
H. von Prott he. eit. p. 195 ingeniously suggested that the aorist Kareirbvrut^peUt>ne'
preceding aorist Kareyvwaav, was taken over from the text of Theophrastos.
Attische Feste Berlin 1932 p. 169 agrees. / (^7r^>^re''",l

Cp. Ail. var. /list. 8. 3 KaTayivtbtTKov<ri Si rijs fia.xa.lpas> KaL ^70v<Tl tomtV
avrbv.