Incertarum fabularum fragmenta (fr. 71)

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fr. 71 K.-A. (CGFP 2; Alexand. Com. fr. 5 K.)
ταμιεϊον αρετής έστι γενναία γυνή
habent SMA (Stob.), pap.; cf. [Men.] Mon. 744; Clem. Al. Paed. 3.11.67
ταμιεϊον pap.: ταμεϊον SMA γενναία SMA: ανδρεία Clem. Al.: σώφρων [Men.]
(em. Meineke: σωφροσύνη μόνη mss.)
A noble wife is a storehouse of virtue
BKT V(2).9773 (= Pack2 1573)
Άναξαν[δρίδου·]-
Anaxan[drides:]-
Stob. 4.22.4
(ότι κάλλιστον ό γάμος) Άναξανδρίδου·-
Αλεξάνδρου ΜΑ (om. S; corn Dobree)
(That marriage is best) Anaxandrides:-

Metre lambic trimeter.
Discussion Grotius 1623 11.276—7; Meineke 1839 1.370; 1841 IV.554 (Alexand.
Com. inc. fr. 1); 1847. 1164; Bothe 1855. 705-6 (Alexand. Com. inc. fr. 1);
Meineke 1857 V.clxxx; Kock 1888 III.373 (Alexand. Com. fr. 5); Edmonds 1959
11.80—1 (cf. 1961 III.312 [Alexand. Com. fr. 10 dub.]); Austin 1973. 2; Kassel-
Austin 1991 11.276; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007. 273
Citation context Prior to the publication of BKTV(2). 9773161 in 1907, scholars
generally followed Stobaeus and assigned this fragment to Alexander, although
there was occasional dissent (Dobree 1833 11.280 suggested Anaxandrides;
Naeke 1842-1845 1.11, Alexander Aetolus (TrGF 101);162 Gaisford, Euripides’
Alexander). Several variations of the line occur: [Men.] Mon. 744 ταμιεϊον
αρετής έστιν ή σώφρων γυνή (thus Meineke; cf. app. crit. above); Stob. 3.5.5

161 The papyrus is a fragment of an anthology composed, at least in the extant portion,
of a selection of passages that defend women and a selection that attack them. For
discussion of the papyrus and fragments of other similar, thematically arranged
anthologies, together with the suggestion that such fragments may originally have
belonged to anthologies akin to Stobaeus in terms of scope, see Barns 1951.
162 Note Naeke’s characterization of the line as ‘Euripide vel Euripidea aetate dignus’.