Incertarum fabularum fragmenta (fr. 59)

287

birds associated with various deities, as having peacocks;137 at anon. Dor. fr.
1.13 Hera’s jealousy toward Heracles is mentioned. For λάλων, cf. on fr. 36.
Κύπριδι Κύπρις is the most common name for Aphrodite aside from
her actual name and is attested 17 times in comedy, although only here in
Anaxandrides; cf. Bruchmann 1893. 61.

fr. 59 K.-A. (58 K.)
εάν λούσησθέ νυν
ράφανόν τε πολλήν έντράγητε, παύσεται
τό βάρος, διασκεδάτε τό προσόν νυν νέφος
έπι τού μετώπου

habent CE
1 νυν Bothe: νΰν CE 2 έντρώγητε CE: corn Musurus διασκεδάτε CE: -δα
τε Bernhardy

Now if you wash
and nibble a lot of cabbage, your headache
will cease, you will scatter the cloud now
upon your brow
Ath. 1.34d-e
Άναξανδρίδης·-
Anaxandrides:-

Metre lambic trimeter.
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—-K— x—>
Discussion Morelius 1553. 109; Meineke 1840 III.197—8; 1847. 591; Bothe
1855. 432-3; Herwerden 1855. 57; Meineke 1857 V.clxxix, 81; Kock 188411.160;

137 Hera may also appear in a catalogue of gods at Ar. Av. 575 if one read reads "Ηραν
(so M; all other mss. read ’Ipiv), although this is probably mistaken (cf. Dunbar
1995 ad Ιοά).