Introduction

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White’s anapaestic hypermeter; see metrical n. ad loc.). Of the 66 fully
preserved anapaestic dimeters, all have caesura (diaeresis) between the
first and second foot. Anapaestic dimeters pronounced by a single actor
are common in fourth-century comedy and are used frequently for lists,
especially of foodstuffs, as here; see in general Arnott 1996. 20, 479-80.
(2) lambic tetrameter catalectic (ten lines): fr. 35. See metrical note ad loc. Eight
of the lines have caesura (diaeresis) between the second and third foot.
(3) Trochaic tetrameter catalectic (five lines): frr. 6 (three complete lines); 72
(two fragmentary lines).30 All lines have caesura (diaeresis) between the
second and third foot. Two of the fully preserved lines are purely trochaic
(fr. 6.1-2), as is the preserved portion of one of the other three lines (fr.
72.2). Fr. 61.3 contains a single trisyllabic foot, as does the preserved por-
tion of fr. 72.1. See in general White 1912 §244-69
(4) Dactylic hexameter (two lines), used in comedy mainly for riddles, oracles,
and mock-epic: fr. 51 with metrical n. ad loc. Both lines have feminine
caesura.
(5) Anapaestic tetrameter catalectic (one complete and one partial line): fr.
10. Both lines have caesura (diaeresis) between the second and third foot.

8. Anaxandrides and Other Comic Poets
Test. 6 shows that Anaxandrides was a rough contemporary of Philippus
and Choregus (both victorious for the first time before him, in that order),
on the one hand, and of Philetaerus, Eubulus, Ephippus, and Antiphanes (all
victorious for the first time after him, in that order). Nothing is known of his
relations with any of these men, although the information contained in test.
2 (n.) is perhaps to be traced to onstage criticism of him by one of his rivals.
The actor Philemon (Stephanis 1988 #2485) seems to have performed in several
of Anaxandrides’ plays (test. 8).

9. Literature
Meineke 1839 1.367-74; Bergk 1887 IV.158-60; Kaibel 1894

30 Naber takes fr. 19 as the beginning of a catalectic trochaic tetrameter, but it is more
easily understood as iambic trimeter. Garrod 1922. 68 suggests that fr. 36 as well
could be trochaic tetrameter.