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Νηρηίδες (fr. 33)

Κ.-Α. on Cratin. fr. 199.3; Pierson 1830-1831 on Moer. p. 374 (χ 26 Hansen);
contrast Threatte 1996 11.267—8.
2 αύτω The same man as the subject of 3.
σύ, Κώμε Meineke believed Komos to be a slave; cf. SGDI 1909.4, a man-
umission inscription from Delphi from 278 BC. This need not be the case,
but if it is, and if Komos is the speaker of 3 (see above), the snide tone fits
the clever slave type. In Aristophanes, named slaves almost always remain
mute (cf. Olson 1992. 309-12); whether the rule applied in comedy generally
is unclear. Dobree suggested that the name is that of the Bacchic daemon (see
Roscher 1884-1937 III. 1281—2), a view of which Meineke was rightly skeptical.
κυμβίον See on fr. 3.2.
3 For the thought, cf. Ar. Ec. 1021 ο’ίμοι, Προκρούστης τήμερον γενήσεται;
fr. 957 with K.-A. ad loc.·, Eub. fr. 119.5 with K.-A. ad loc.
Ευριπίδης τις Ath. 11.482c distinguishes the famous poet from this man
(PAA 444547; LGPNII s.v. [17]); cf. Steinhausen 1910. 49. Nothing is known
about him aside from the snippets provided here by Athenaeus, who ascribes
to him a reputation as a drunk (φίλοινος); cf. Ephipp. fr. 9.2 ού κυμβίοισι
πεπολέμηκ’ Ευριπίδης; 16.5 κυμβία τε παρέχοιμ’ εστιών Ευριπίδη. That all
three passages connect Euripides with κυμβία might suggest that he had a
penchant for the shape, but might simply mean instead that it was popular
at the time. For the force of τις, see Cooper 1998-2002 51.16.2B; Riddell 1867.
136 (§51β); cf. Ar. Ach. 1166 τις ... Όρέστης with Starkie 1909 ad loc.·, Dover
1993 on Ar. Ra. 912; Men. fr. 505.