316

Incertarum fabularum fragmenta (fr. 72)

possible ignorance of symposium-etiquette (cf. on συναυλίαι) might suggest a
group such as that apparently found in Agroikoi or Gerontomania, although the
fragment is too brief to be conclusive in this regard and such characteristics
are found in other groups as well.
τρίκλινον The word is probably best taken ‘dinner-party’164 by meton-
ymy, as at Arched, fr. 2.12; Men. fr. 186.1 (cf. Gomme-Sandbach 1973 ad loc.
[their frr. 208-9.4]), in contrast to the normal meaning ‘three-couch room’. For
the use of τρίκλινον and related compounds to designate rooms of differing
sizes, cf. fr. 42.11 with n.; McCartney 1934; Olynthus XII.349-51 n. Ill;165
Olynthus VIII.173-4. For the κλίνη, cf. Pritchett 1956. 226-33; Richter 1926.
54-71; Olson-Sens 2000 on Archestr. fr. 4.1 (SH191).
συνήγετο Cf. on fr. 2.1.
2 συναυλίαι The word presumably refers to a musical performance
involving more than one instrument, but the precise meaning is unclear and
was disputed already in antiquity; cf. Semus FHG 4.494 fr. 10 αγνοουμένης
6έ παρά πολλοϊς τής συναυλίας; Κ.-Α. on Antiph. fr. 49.1. It was reportedly
used of three different sorts of musical events: (1) όταν δύο αύληταί τό αύτό
αύλώσιν (ΣνΕΓΘ Ar. Eq. 9; cf. Hsch. ξ 125; Phot, ξ 50); (2) όταν κιθάρα καί αυλός
σύμφωνη (ΣνΕΓΘ Ar. Eq. 9); (3) ήν τις αγών συμφωνίας αμοιβαίος αυλού καί
ρυθμού, χωρίς λόγου τού προσμελωδοΰντος (Semus FHGYV.494 fr. 10). On oc-
casion, the word was also used metaphorically; cf. A. Th. 839 (see Σ ad loc.\,166
Hemsterhuis 1743 on Luc. DMar. 3.2,167 who offers the definition ‘quum duo
pluresve in eandem rem consentiunt, ac mutuis animorum studiis conspirant’.
The matter is further complicated by the existence of a homograph (LSJ s. v.
συναυλία B) derived from αύλή (for the related derivatives, cf. Chantraine
1968-1980 s.v. αύλή), which seemingly occurs prior to the Roman period
only at Arist. Pol. 7.1335a38, where it is synonymous with σύζευξις. The main
difficulty here is which word is used; a related problem is in which sense the
word is used, if συναυλία A is intended.

164 Edmonds translates ‘couches three’, apparently thinking of Amphis fr. 45 (cf. LSJ
s.v. τρίκλινος II.3 ‘set of three couches’). But this meaning is unnecessary in ei-
ther fragment and impossible at Syll.' 1097.29-30 (= IGII2 2499), the third citation
adduced by LSJ.
165 Pritchett 1956. 227 is rightly sceptical of Robinson’s claim (Olynthus XII.350) that
‘the τρικλίνιον ... was probably most common’.
166 While the use here is striking, it follows from έτευξα τύμβω μέλος at 835; cf.
Hutchinson 1985 ad loc.
167 Hemsterhuis’ learned note (rightly lauded by Pearson 1917 on S. fr. 60) is unfor-
tunately predicated on an incorrect reading (συναναμίγωυσο: ξυναλία [ξυναυλία
L] μίγνυσο β).