Ψευδοληισταί (Pseudoleistai)
(“Fake Robbers”)

241

Discussion Bevilacqua 1939, 33-4; Edmonds II (1959) 624-5; PCG VII (1989)
778-9.
Title Cf. Cratinus Junior’s and Crobylus’ Ψευδυποβολιμαΐος, Nicostratus’
Ψευδοστιγματίας, Pherecrates’ and Menander’s Ψευδηρακλής; and Ar. Ach. 99
Ψευδαρτάβας and Lucianus’ title Ψευδοσοφιστής.
Content The title, in combination with the surviving fragment, points to a plot
involving false robbers. It seems unlikely that these supposed robbers form a cho-
rus. Most probably, individuals described as fake robbers commit or narrate on
stage actions described as fake robberies, e. g. grabbing food or the like, as the
surviving fragment indicates.
Date Unknown.

fr. 35 K.-A. (33 K.)

ο—καταμαθών δε κειμένην {θερμήν} σκάφην
θερμών ϊπνιτών ήσθιον
1 om. CE θερμήν del. Toup 2 ήσθιον CE: εϊσ- A
... learning that a pan of warm
oven bread was lying there, I ate some
Ath.3.109c
παρά δέ τάς οπτήσεις όνομάζεσθαι ΐπνίτην, ού μνημονεύειν Τιμοκλέα έν Ψευδολησταϊς
ούτως · ‘καταμαθών - ήσθιον’
Oven bread’ gets its name from the fact that it is baked. Timocles mentions it in his Fake
Robbers as follows: learning - some

Metre lambic trimeter
—I--
Discussion Meineke III (1840) 612; Kock II (1884) 465; Edmonds II (1959)
624-5; PCG VII (1989) 778-9.
Citation context In a section where types of bread are mentioned. The material
derives from a treatise of Tryphon; cf. Ath. 3.109c άρτων γένη exTryphone έν τοϊς
φυτικοΐς έπιγραφομένοις, fr. 117 von Velsen.