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Λοκρίδες (fr. 27)
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War and the Third Sacred War. For other apparent conflations of myth and
the contemporary situation, see on Theseus·, Odysseus·, Protesilaos·, Introduction.
The sole fragment consists of two commonplace financial terms.
Date If the play can be connected with the end of the Third Sacred War, it
must date to ca. 346 BC or shortly thereafter. In that case, it would belong near
the end of Anaxandrides’ career (the latest securely dated play being from
350/49 BC; see on Agroikoi).
fr. 27 K.-A. (26 K.)
Antiatt. p. 106.25
λήμμα καί άνάλωμα· Άναξανδρίδης Λοκρίσιν
άνάλωμα Bekker: άνήλωμα cod.: fort. <τό> λήμμα κάνάλωμα
Receipt and exp enditure. Anaxandrides inLokrides
Metre lambic trimeter?
e.g. <x>— —1<- x—>
Discussion Meineke 1840 III.172; 1847. 579; Bothe 1855. 422; Kock 188411.144;
Edmonds 1959 11.54-55; Kassel-Austin 1991 11.250; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007.
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Citation Context Why the Antiatticist cites these two words (or phrase?; see
below) is obscure, since both are unexceptional. Possibly a figurative use had
been censured, but more likely the criticism concerned the use of technical
accounting terms rather than more general words for ‘income’ and ‘expenses’
(e. g. δαπάνη and πρόσοδος; cf. Phot, δ 52 for a distinction between δαπανάν
and άναλίσκειν). Cronert’s suggestion (see below) that the entry reflects a
dispute between άνήλωμα and άνάλωμα is anachronistic.
Interpretation Kassel-Austin (like earlier editors, Kock excepted) take only
λήμμα and άνάλωμα as the words of Anaxandrides; but λήμμα κάνάλωμα is
metrical and seems (without crasis) to be a set phrase (Lys. 32.20; Pl. Lg. 920c
[twice]; IG I3 477.2-3 [= II2 1655; 407-405 BC]; II2 1174.5-6 [λήμμα restored;
367/6 BC]). The words ‘receipt’ and ‘expenditure’ belong to the world of fi-
nance and are the general headings in an account book or the like; both are
well attested in Attic financial inscriptions of the classical period and later
(e.g. IGII2 1672.173-4, etc. [= I.Eleusis 177; 329/8 BC]). A clear example, though
not from Athens, is an account of a Boeotian hipparch (IG VII2426 [= Bogaert
131
War and the Third Sacred War. For other apparent conflations of myth and
the contemporary situation, see on Theseus·, Odysseus·, Protesilaos·, Introduction.
The sole fragment consists of two commonplace financial terms.
Date If the play can be connected with the end of the Third Sacred War, it
must date to ca. 346 BC or shortly thereafter. In that case, it would belong near
the end of Anaxandrides’ career (the latest securely dated play being from
350/49 BC; see on Agroikoi).
fr. 27 K.-A. (26 K.)
Antiatt. p. 106.25
λήμμα καί άνάλωμα· Άναξανδρίδης Λοκρίσιν
άνάλωμα Bekker: άνήλωμα cod.: fort. <τό> λήμμα κάνάλωμα
Receipt and exp enditure. Anaxandrides inLokrides
Metre lambic trimeter?
e.g. <x>— —1<- x—>
Discussion Meineke 1840 III.172; 1847. 579; Bothe 1855. 422; Kock 188411.144;
Edmonds 1959 11.54-55; Kassel-Austin 1991 11.250; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007.
251
Citation Context Why the Antiatticist cites these two words (or phrase?; see
below) is obscure, since both are unexceptional. Possibly a figurative use had
been censured, but more likely the criticism concerned the use of technical
accounting terms rather than more general words for ‘income’ and ‘expenses’
(e. g. δαπάνη and πρόσοδος; cf. Phot, δ 52 for a distinction between δαπανάν
and άναλίσκειν). Cronert’s suggestion (see below) that the entry reflects a
dispute between άνήλωμα and άνάλωμα is anachronistic.
Interpretation Kassel-Austin (like earlier editors, Kock excepted) take only
λήμμα and άνάλωμα as the words of Anaxandrides; but λήμμα κάνάλωμα is
metrical and seems (without crasis) to be a set phrase (Lys. 32.20; Pl. Lg. 920c
[twice]; IG I3 477.2-3 [= II2 1655; 407-405 BC]; II2 1174.5-6 [λήμμα restored;
367/6 BC]). The words ‘receipt’ and ‘expenditure’ belong to the world of fi-
nance and are the general headings in an account book or the like; both are
well attested in Attic financial inscriptions of the classical period and later
(e.g. IGII2 1672.173-4, etc. [= I.Eleusis 177; 329/8 BC]). A clear example, though
not from Athens, is an account of a Boeotian hipparch (IG VII2426 [= Bogaert