Ζωγράφοι ή Γεωγράφοι (vel -ος) (fr. 15)

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1997. For extant Hellenistic painting, though on stone, e. g. Petsas 1966, esp.
pls. 6-10. See also the general surveys cited above (Introduction to this play)
for further bibliography and examples.
κάβου For the form, cf. Ar. fr. 631; Alex. fr. 226; Diph. fr. 8; Orus fr. A
57 with Alpers 1981 ad loc.·, Στ Η. II. 2.191a1 κάθησο· κάβου Αττικώς; Σ1’ Η.
II. 2.191a2; Epim. Hom. κ 82 with Dyck 1995 ad loc.·, cf. Ar. V. 209 σου with
MacDowell 1971 ad loc. The form is most common in comedy but occasionally
occurs elsewhere (e. g. A. Eu. 226; E. fr. 337.1; see Veitch 1887. 347 for examples
from late prose); in general, see Lautensach 1917. 87-9.

fr. 15 K.-A. (14 K.)
Antiatt. p. 104.32
κιννάβαρις· άρσενικώς. Άναξανδρίδης Ζωγράφω
Γεωγράφω cod. (see above on introduction to this play)
Cinnabar. Masculine. Anaxandrides in Painter
Choerob. in Theodos. Can. 4.344.1
τό δέ κιννάβαρι καί άρσενικώς εύρέθη ό κιννάβαρις, εϋρηται γάρ παρά Άναξανδρίδρ
ή αιτιατική τον κιννάβαριν
habent CV
Άναξάνδρω V: Άλεξανδρίδι C
Cinnabar was also found in the masculine form kinnabaris, for the masculine accusative
kinnabarin is found in Anaxandrides
Metre Unknown (word is — <-').
Discussion Meineke 1839 1.371; 1840 III.168; 1847. 577; Bothe 1855. 421;
Meineke 1857 V.clxxvii; Kock 1884 11.141; Blaydes 1896. 122; Edmonds 1959
11.50—1; Kassel-Austin 1991 11.245; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007. 246
Citation Context The Antiatticist’s Γεωγράφω probably does not represent
a corruption in the manuscript tradition (unless from Γεωγράφοις) but reli-
ance on a faulty tradition (cf. Introduction to this play) or abbreviation of a
version that gave both alternatives. Nevertheless, emendation restores what
is probably the correct title.
Interpretation Cinnabar, or mercury sulfide, was used as a red pigment in
antiquity; for its manufacture, see Thphr. Lap. 58 with Eichholz 1965 ad loc.·,