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Timokles

αρχήν ύπέθηκεν· ‘έπειδή μοι πολλάκις έπέστειλας... στίχων τοε.’ “And Callimachus
attributes to Chaerephon a treatise, in the catalogue of all sorts of subjects, writing
thus: ‘Those who have written about feasts:—Chaerephon to Cyrebion;’ and then
he quotes the first sentence—‘Since you have often written to me’ (and says that
the work consisted) of three hundred and seventy-five lines.”
Date Unkown.

fr. 9 K.-A. (9 K.)
ό Δημοτίων δε παραμενεϊν αύτώ δοκών
τάργύριον ούκ έφείδετ’, άλλα παρέτρεφεν
τον βουλόμενον. ό Χαιρεφών μεν παντελώς
οϊκαδε βαδίζειν ψωετο ώ| ταλάντατος.
5 και μήν έτι Ττοΰτ’ έστινΐ άξιον μόνον,
τον παραμασήτην λαμβάνειν δίκρουν ξύλον·
οΰτ’ εύρυθμος γάρ έστιν οϋτ’ άχρήματος

1 παραμενεϊν Schweighauser: -μένειν Α αύτώ Casaubon: άυτώ A 3 μέν Α: ούν
Herwerden: δέ Blaydes 4 ώιετο ώ Α: ώιετ’ ώ Dindorf: ώιετ’ άν, ό Bothe: διενοεϊθ’
ό Kaibel 5 έτι Α: έτι <γε> Dobree: έτι <καϊ> Headlam τοΰτ’ έστιν Α: τοϋτ’
<έν}εστιν Kassel 7 άχρήματος Α: αγράμματος Toup: εϋχρώματος Herwerden: εύχρήμ-
vel εύσχήμ- Headlam
Demotion, thinking that he will always have money,
was far from thrifty, but he used to feed
anyone who was willing. Chaerephon entirely
f thought Of he was going to his house, the poor man!
5 Indeed still tthis is t the only thing he deserves,
to get a forked stick as his chewing-companion.
Because he’s neither suave nor out of money
Ath. 6.243b
Τιμοκλής δ’ ένΈπιστολαΐς και ώς Δημοτίωνι τώ άσώτω παρασιτούντος αυτού μνημονεύει ·
ό - άχρήματος
Timocles in The Letters refers to him as sponging off the spendthrift Demotion: “Demotion -
out of money”

Metre lambic trimeter

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