246

Τηρεύς (fr. 46)

ling. It apparently failed to place well in competition, with the result that
Ath. 9.373f-4b (citing fr. 48) marvels that it was preserved; cf. on fr. 48; test. 2.

fr. 46 K.-A. (45 K.)
Όρνις κεκλήση. (B.) διά τί, προς τής Εστίας;
πότερον καταφαγών τήν πατρώαν ουσίαν,
ώσπερ Πολύευκτος ό καλός; (Α.) ού δήτ’, άλλ’ ότι
άρρην ύπό θηλειών κατεκόπης
habent ACE
You will be called Bird. (B.) Why, by Hestia?
For consuming my inheritance,
like the handsome Polyeuctus? (A.) Not at all, but because,
although a man, you were made into mincemeat by women
Ath. 4.166d
Πολύευκτον δ’ Άναξανδρίδης έν Τηρεί κωμωδών δρνις κεκλήση, φησί, διά τί-
Πολυεύκτου δ’ Άναξανδρίδης λέγων CE
Mocking Polyeuctus, Anaxandrides in Tereus says: Why-

Metre lambic trimeter.

—-1—
Discussion Morelius 1553. 109; Ruhnken 1768. Ixxxi (= 1828b. 344); Meineke
1840 III. 191 -2; 1847. 587-8; Bothe 1855. 430; Meineke 1857 V.clxxix; Kock 1884
11.45; Blaydes 1896. 124; Herwerden 1903. 99; Edmonds 1959 11.70—1; Webster
1970. 40, 57; Nesselrath 1990. 216-18; Kassel-Austin 1991 11.266; Wilkins 2000.
293; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007. 266-7
Citation context Athenaeus quotes this fragment in the course of a list of ex-
amples of spendthrifts (4.165d-9a): Alex. frr. 110 (Diodorus); 248 (Epicharides);
Diph. fr. 37 (Ctesippus son of Chabrias); Timocl. fr. 5 (the same); Men. frr. 264
(the same); 247 (a generic spendthrift); Axionic. fr. 1 (Pythodelus) precede;