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Testimonia
test. 1 K.-A. (= test, i Storey)
Suda ε 3657
Ευπολις Σωσιπόλιδος, Αθηναίος, κωμικός, δς έπτακαίδεκα έτη γεγονώς
ήρξατο έπιδείκνυσθαι- και έδίδαξε μέν δράματα έπτακαίδεκα, ένίκησε
δέ επτάκις, καί άπέθανε ναυαγήσας κατά τον 'Ελλήσποντον έν τω προς
Λακεδαιμονίους πολεμώ· καί έκ τούτου έκωλύθη στρατεύεσθαι ποιητήν, τά
δέ δράματα αύτοϋ Αίγες, Αστράτευτος ή Άνδρόγυνοι, καί άλλα
Σωσιπόλιδος Meineke : Σωσίπολις Suda δς Suda' : ούτος SudaGiVM μέν Sudd' :
c j GIVM
om. Suda
Eupolis son of Sosipolis, an Athenian, a comic poet. He began to put on
shows at age seventeen, and he staged seventeen plays and was victorious
seven times. And he died when he was shipwrecked in the Hellespont during
the war against the Spartans; and from that point on, poets were prevented
from taking part in military expeditions. His plays are Aiges, Astrateutos or
Androgynoi, and others
Citation context Like test. 10 (discussing Plato Comicus), one of a number of
mini-biographies of authors of various genres, including 86 comic poets, pre-
served in the Suda and apparently drawn in large part from the Όνοματολόγος
ή Πίναξ των έν Παιδεία όνομαστών (“Catalogue ofNames or List of Individuals
Renowned in Learning”') of Hesychius of Miletus (see Suda η 611). Test. 2a
is likely to be traced to the same source. Most of Hesychius’ material must
have been drawn from Aristotle’s work on the dramatic competitions and
thus ultimately from official Athenian state archives and inscriptions. See in
general Wagner 1905. 30-55, esp. 33-5; Orth 2013. 18-20.
The end of the entry has been abbreviated, and a version of some of the
missing material seems to be preserved in test. 14 (n.).
Text The name of the poet’s father is wanted as the standard second item in
the entry (Wagner element a), hence Meineke’s genitive Σωσιπόλιδος for the
paradosis nominative Σωσίπολις.43 The error likely originated in an abbrevi-
ated Σωσιπλ vel sim.

43 The problem was already recognized by Küster, although his suggestion Σωσιπό-
λεως is an unattested name and thus almost certainly incorrect.