250

Τηρεύς (fr. 47)

κατακόπτω means ‘cut up in small pieces’ (e. g. for cooking, as at Ar. Av.
1688 [of birds]), but can also be used in a military sense, like the English
‘butcher’ (e. g. Th. 7.29.5; D. 13.22); cf. περικόμματα at Ar. Eq. 372 with Blaydes
1892 ad loc. Here the word may have the connotation ‘defeat overwhelmingly’,
but perhaps it also has the sense ‘bore (with words)’, as at Alex. fr. 177.12 with
Arnott 1996 ad loc.·, Anaxipp. fr. 1.23; Men. Sam. 285 with Gomme-Sandbach
1973 ad loc.·, Hegesipp. Com. fr. 1.3. In any event, it is clear that a man has in
some way been worsted by two women.

fr. 47 K.-A. (46 K.)
άλλ’, οία νύμφη βασιλις ώνομασμένη,
μύροις Μεγαλλείοισι σώμ’ αλείφεται
habet A
1 ώνομασμένη Α: ώραϊσμένη Headlam: έξωρασμένη Herwerden: άσμένη χεροϊν
Toeppel: ένδον άσμένη Kock 2 Μεγαλλείοισι Cobet: Μεγαλλίοισι Α: Μεγαλλείοις
τό Herwerden
But, like one called a royal bride,
she anoints her body with Megallian perfumes
Ath. 15.691a
Άναξανδρίδης Τηρεί--
Anaxandrides in Tereus:-

Metre lambic trimeter.

Discussion Toup 1770 11.402; Meineke 1840 III. 192—3; Cobet 1847. 127 (cf.
1858. 77); Emperius 1847. 311; Meineke 1847. 588; Bothe 1855. 430; Herwerden
1855. 55-6; Meineke 1857 V.clxxix, 81; Toppel 1867. 7-8; Herwerden 1872.
85-6; Naber 1880. 54-5; Kock 1884 11.156; Herwerden 1886. 179; Kock 1888
III.737; Blaydes 1890a. 83; Blaydes 1896.124; Blaydes 1898.186; Headlam 1899.
6; Herwerden 1903. 99; Edmonds 1959 11.70—1; Long 1986. 81; Kassel-Austin
1991 11.266; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007. 267
Citation context Toward the end of a long discussion of perfumes (15.686c-
92f; including Anaxandr. fr. 41 at 15.689f-90a), Athenaeus breaks into summary