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Αγροίκοι (fr. 1)

Date Test. 5.8 includes among the plays of Anaxandrides that placed fourth
at the City Dionysia an Άγ[-], i. e. Άγ[ροίκοις] or Αγ[χίσηι] (frr. 4-5),
performed in the archonship of Apollodorus (349 BC). See on Anchises.

fr. 1 K.-A. (1 K.)
(A.) τίνα 6ή παρεσκευασμένοι
πίνειν τρόπον νυν έστε; λέγετε. (Β.) τίνα τρόπον;
ημείς τοιοϋτον οίον αν και σοί δοκη.
(Α.) βούλεσθε δήπου τον έπιδέξι’, ώ πάτερ,
5 λέγειν έπι τω πίνοντι; (Β.) τον επιδέξια
λέγειν; Άπολλον, ώσπερ έπι τεθνηκότι;
habet A
2 νΰν έστε Meineke: έστέ νυνϊ A 2-3 λέγετε.:: τίνα τρόπον; ήμεϊς Bothe: λέγετε.
:: τίνα τρόπον ήμεϊς; Dobree: λέγετε· τίνα τρόπον πίνειν ήμεϊς A 4 δήπου Α: δήτα
Cobet 6 ώσπερ έπι Schweighausen ώσπερεϊ Α
(A.) In what way then are you ready
to drink now? Tell me. (B.) In what way?
We (will drink) in whichever way seems best to you.
(A.) Perhaps you wish, father, that the man to the left
5 speak in praise of the one drinking? (B.) That the one to the left
speak? By Apollo, just like over a dead man?
Ath. 11.463f
τοΰ δ’ έπιδέξια πίνειν μνημονεύει και Άναξανδρίδης έν Άγροίκοις ούτως--
Anaxandrides also mentions drinking from left to right as follows in Agroikoi:-

Metre

lambic trimeter.



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