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Eupolis

test. 8 K.-A. (= test, vii Storey)
Syncellus, Ecloga chronographica p. 309.15-16 Mossbacher 01. 88 (a. 428/7-
425/4)
Ενπολις καί Αριστοφάνης (test. 16) κωμικοί, Σοφοκλής τε ό τραγωδοποιός
(test. 38c) έγνωρίζετο
The comic authors Eupolis and Aristophanes (test. 16), and the tragic poet
Sophocles (test. 38c) became well-known
Citation context From a chronological “miscellany” (σποράδην) said to be
drawn in part from Africanus (probably one of Eusebius’ sources), although
the reference to Eupolis and Aristophanes likely comes direct from Eusebius
himself.52
Interpretation Georgius Syncellus (late 8th/early 9th century CE) knew Euse-
bius’ Chronicle (test. 6) via a Syriac translation based on the same exemplar
as the Armenian version of the text; see Mosshammer 1979. 77-8. Like test. 7,
this is thus merely another, somewhat less precise version of test. 6.
The reference to Sophocles (in his 60s in the early 420s BCE) is probably
drawn from Euseb. (Lat.) 01. 85.3 (a. 438/7) p. 114.3-4 Helm Aristofanes (test.
15) clarus habetur et Sofocles (test. 38a) poeta tragicus (“Aristophanes (test.
15) was regarded as distinguished and the tragic poet Sophocles (test. 38a)”),
where it is Aristophanes who is out of place.

test. 9 K.-A. (= test, viii Storey)
Excerpta barbari, Chronica minora I p. 266.4-14 Frick
filosofi autem cognoscebantur temporibus Artaxerxis Sofoclus (test. 38f) ...
Euripidus cantoconpositor (cf. test. 15b) ... Socratus Athineus et Periclus et
Eupolus et Aristofanus architector (test. 17). hit omnes cognoscebantur. unde et
Africanus sub Artaxerxe rege dinumerat filosofos
Moreover philosophers prominent in the time of Artaxerxes were Sophocles
(test. 38f) ... Euripides the composer of songs (cf. test. 15b) ... Socrates of
Athens and Pericles and Eupolis and Aristophanes the architect (test. 17).
All these were prominent. Africanus accordingly lists philosophers during
the reign of King Artaxerxes

52 Syncellus p. 309.10-11 Mossbacher δι’ Ασπασίας πόρνας δύο (the causes of the
Peloponnesian War) is an unnoted reference to Ar. Ach. 527.