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Τηρεύς (fr. 48)

2 μύροις Μεγαλλείοισι For perfume generally, cf. on fr. 41.1. Megalleian
perfume received its name from Megallus, its reputed πρώτος εύρετής (cf.
Ar. fr. 549 with Kassel-Austin ad loc.\ and was apparently expensive and
of high quality (cf. Amphis fr. 27; Eub. fr. 89.5-6 [fr. 90 K] with Hunter 1983
ad loc.)·, for details concerning its manufacture, cf. Thphr. Od. 29; Dsc. 1.58.3;
Plin. NH 13.13. The names of both the perfume and its supposed inventor are
often transmitted in a corrupt form (note especially Hsch. μ 1011, where the
corruption goes back at least to Hesychius’ source); cf. Renehan 1969. 13.
fr. 48 K.-A. (47 K.)
όχευομένους δέ <— — x) τούς κάπρους
και τάς άλεκτρυόνας θεωροϋσ’ άσμενοι
habent ACE
Τηρεί om. CE
1 όχευομένας δέ τάς Bothe: όχευομένας δέ τάς κύνας Herwerden 2 θεωροΰσ’
CE: θεωροΰσιν A
They delight in watching the boars
and hens being mounted
Ath. 9.373e-f
τον δ’ άλεκτρυόνα ... οί άρχάϊοι κάι θηλικώς είρήκασι... Άναξανδρίδης Τηρεί--
The ancients used the word ‘cock’ also for the feminine ... Anaxandrides in Tereus:-
Metre lambic trimeter.
— x>—
Discussion Meineke 1840 III.192; 1847. 588; Bothe 1855. 430; Meineke 1857
V.clxxix; Kock 1884 11.156; Herwerden 1886. 178; Blaydes 1890a. 83; Blaydes
1896. 124; Herwerden 1903. 99; Edmonds 1959 11.72—3; Nesselrath 1990. 218;
Kassel-Austin 1991 11.266—7; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007. 267
Citation context Within a more general discussion of birds (9.373a-4d),
Athenaeus includes a section on the use of the word άλεκτρυών ‘cock’ as a
feminine; Cratin. fr. 115 and Stratt. fr. 61 precede, and Theopomp. Com. fr. 10
and Ar. frr. 193 and 194.1-2 follow. The list of citations is interrupted after this
fragment by the narrator’s comment that he is surprised this play survived
and his quotation of Chamaeleon fr. 43 (= Anaxandr. test. 2).