Note 74 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Cf. Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, p. 69, fr. 207:
τράγος γένειον ἆρα πενθήσεις σύ γε.
The use of the nominative τράγος instead of a vocative is harsh, and Shorey, Classical Philology, IV (1909), 433 ff., interprets the line as an abbreviated comparison with ὡς omitted: “<If you kiss that fire>, you’ll be the goat (in the proverb) who mourned his beard.” Of course, this play must have been written considerably before 456 B.C., the year of Aeschylus’ decease.