The highlighted portion looks like a string of datives with an infinitive χρήσασθαι. The portion following πάρα is what Helma Dik calls "the remainder." While the portion in front of πάρα looks like simple syntax, I don't get it. Perhaps Clytemnestra is the assumed subject of the infinitive. How do we read the middle voice? Clytemnestra is the beneficiary so I don't think she can be the subject.{Κλ.} φεῦ·
τίν' ἂν λάβοιμι τῶν ἐμῶν ἀρχὴν κακῶν;
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ἅπασι γὰρ πρώτοισι χρήσασθαι πάρα
κἀν ὑστάτοισι κἀν μέσοισι πανταχοῦ.
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Perhaps this from LSJ under παρά helps:
F. πάρα (with anastrophe) stands for πάρεστι and πάρεισι
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Re: Euripides Iphigenia Aulidensis 1125-26
Here is the context for the note from LSJ. Eurip. IA is typically ignored being a marginal work.Robert Emil Berge wrote: ↑May 15th, 2017, 5:12 pmPerhaps this from LSJ under παρά helps:F. πάρα (with anastrophe) stands for πάρεστι and πάρεισι
Thank you. That looks promising. I will take another look at it in the morning after my first dose of caffeine.POSITION: παρά may follow its Subst. in all three cases, but then becomes by anastrophe πάρα: when the ult. is elided, the practice varies, τῇσι παρ' Il.18.400; but Ἡφαίστοιο πάρ' ib.191.
παρά abs., as ADV., near, together, Il.1.611, al., E.IA201 (lyr.).
πάρα (with anastrophe) stands for πάρεστι and πάρεισι, Il.1.174, Hes.Op.454, A.Pers.167, Hdt.1.42, al., S.El.285, Ar.Ach.862, etc.
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