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[64] ἄκουροννυμφίον, ‘without male issue . . before his bridal days were over.’ This meaning seems to be sufficiently established by the words “μίαν οἴην παῖδα λιπόντα” that follow as epexegesis. But Nauck, from a gloss of “αριστοπη. ἄγουρον”, proposes, needlessly, “ἄωρον”, sc. ‘immatura morte ademptum,’ which some modern commentators approve. It seems he had been married long enough to have had a daughter born him, unless we make Arete a posthumous child.

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