[Of an admirable] death.
Agastou: thanatou.
The unanimous reading of the mss for the gloss,
qana/tou, is shared with
Zonaras p.14 Tittmann and
Eudemus (according to Adler's apparatus). Other sources (
Photius; Bachmann,
Anecdota graeca I p.7, 21) have the more comprehensible
qaumastou=, "wondrous" (cf.
alpha 173). Tittmann proposes
a)ga/stou qana/tou qaumastou=. However, the enigma of the present entry was probably solved by Richard Porson (1759-1808), who noted that
a)gasto/s and
qa/natos appear in close proximity at
Xenophon,
Hellenica 2.3.56; see web address 1. (When death was hanging over him, Theramenes, in the view of
Xenophon, said something admirable.) It may therefore be that an illustrative quotation here has been accidentally disassembled.
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