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Timokles

racters (cf. on the ρΗγβΉρωες, Ίκάριοι Σάτυροι and Μαραθώνιοι). It is quite
possible that the play is a political allegory, perhaps including the presence of
Satyrs in the Athenian Assembly or in Athens; cf. Orth 2015, 296, on Polyzelus’
Δημοτυνδάρεως.
Since the leading anti-Macedonian orators Demosthenes (cf. frr. 4 and 12) and
Hyperides (frr. 4 and 17) are at the center of Timocles’ satire, it has been suggested
that the comedy deals with them (e.g. Llopis-Gomez-Asensio 2007, 656). This
is an attractive suggestion but difficult to prove. It seems more plausible that the
play contains personal satire on prodigal citizens, who are associated with satyrs.
Ctesippus might have been mentioned in such a context, due to his effeminate
appearance and dissolute life; cf. Ath. 4.166b τάχ ούν διά την πολλήν ταύτην
άσωτίαν και κιναιδίαν τούνομα αύτοϋ παρέλιπε Δημοσθένης έν τώ περί άτελειών
“it was therefore probably on account of his great profligacy and sexual perversion
that Demosthenes omitted his name in his speech On Exemptions from Taxation}
If Ctesippus was indeed treated as a potential δημοσάτυρος, his case would call to
mind Autocles in Icarian Satyrs, who is compared with the satyr Marsyas, appa-
rently on account of his dissolute life; see on fr. 19.1.59
Date Given that Ctesippus is the target of personal satire on similar matters in
Timocles, Menander and Diphilus, it has been suggested that the three plays are
contemporary (e. g. Webster 1952, 22). Wagner 1905, 19, 65 argues for the period
321-315 BC.60 However, such a late dating seems difficult on the grounds that
the title alludes to a period when the democracy is still alive, i. e. before 323 BC.

fr. 5 K.-A. (5 K.)
ούδ’ ό Χαβρίου Κτήσιππος έτι τρις κείρεται,
έν ταΐς γυναιξϊ λαμπρός, οΰκ έν άνδράσιν
1 έτι τρις Α: έπι τρις Bergk: έπιτρίς Bothe 2 έν ταΐς Α: ούν ταΐς Kock
And Ctesippus son of Chabrias no longer has his hair cut three times a day;
he is distinguished among women but not among men
Ath. 4.165f
Τιμοκλής δ’ έν Δημοσατύροις φησίν- ούδ’ - άνδράσιν
Timocles says in The People’s Satyrs: “And Ctesippus - men”
59 Cf. the description of Pericles as a “satyr” in Hermipp. fr. 47 due to his supposed lascivi-
ous life and Plutarch’s relevant information that Aspasia had assisted Pericles in meeting
and having sex with free-born women (Plu. Per. 32).
60 Menander’s’Οργή is dated to either 321 BC (e.g. Webster 1952, 22) or 315 (e.g. Capps
1900,61).