Testimonia (test. dub. 51)

89

fr. 131 (second set of witnesses to the text). The work on comic vocabulary
perished in the great fire in Rome in 192 CE (Peri Alypias 20, 23b, 28 (vol. IV
pp. 8-10 Boudon-Millot) with Boudon-Millot 2007. 233-4; Tucci 2008 (with
attention mostly to topographic matters); Jones 2009 (with particular concern
for Galen’s references to books, copyists, editors and the like); Boudon-Millot
and Jouanna 2010. 75-9, 80-2, 92-5).
Galen apparently had both a very large personal collection of books and
access to major imperial libraries on the Palatine and elsewhere; see in general
Nicholls 2011. The combination of his claim at Peri Alypias 23b to have drawn
on τής παλαιάς κωμωδίας όλης (“all of old comedy”) in his work on colloquial
Attic vocabulary and the fact that in On His Own Books 17 he names only
Eupolis, Aristophanes and Cratinus as sources thus suggests that already by
this time no other complete 5th-century comedies were available in Rome.
Galen does nonetheless report that he had access to a work by Didymus in
fifty books on contemporary (i. e. colloquial) vocabulary and rare words in old
comedy, and that he excerpted it in 6000 lines (= two books or so).

test. 50 K.-A.

Under this number Kassel-Austin collect references to Eupolis not by name
but as ό κωμικός (fr. 102.3, 5 (dubious), 7; *116; *127; 331; 345), ό κωμωδός (fr. 1)
and τις των κωμικών vel sim. (fr. 60; Demoi test. *i).

test. dub. 51
IG I3 1190.52
Εΰπολις
Eupolis
Citation context From a list of Athenian war-dead dated by Lewis and Jeffrey
to ca. 411 BCE. This section of the list includes several trierarchs (3, 42), so
these must be naval casualties.
Discussion Körte 1912. 312 n. 1; Halliwell 1991. 55 n. 32; Lewis and Jeffrey
1993. 778; Olson 2010b. 49
Interpretation The man whose death is recorded here is PA 5934; PAA 442520.
For Eupolis’ supposed death at sea in the war, cf. test. 1 (the Hellespont); 3 (on