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and lack of military service . [ in
25 those (dat.) of Aristophanes (Ar. Byz. fr. nov.);
for they say regarding[ ;
but in those of Calli-
stratus: . . is the (fem. acc.) of
brief ones. But in those of
30 Aristarchus: in place of
“about himself’, i. e. “not
on behalf of another”. From Aristome-
nes Dionysos aske-
tes (fr. nov.): “This song of praise,
35 Satyrs, is on behalf of your knuc-
kle(s) rather than yourselves”.
Note that that they use “him-
self” in place of “yourself’.
From Aeschylus Danaids (fr. nov.):
40 “But you are hated such[
Interpretation For μαλακία (col. ii. 19), see fr. 18 n., and cf. και άστρατ . [ in
col. ii.24.
25-40 summarize various Alexandrian commentators’ treatments of the
use of αύτοΰ (properly “himself”) where σαυτού (“yourself”) might be expect-
ed. Either αύτοΰ was part of the now badly damaged gloss in 16-17, therefore,
or the note that begins at 17-18 κω[μ]ωιδεΐ δ’ αύτο . [ ends somewhere after
19 and a new lemma is concealed in 20-4.
Aristophanes of Byzantium dates to the second half of the 3rd c. BCE and
the beginning of the 2nd; Callistratus and Aristarchus were his students.
For Aristomenes’ Dionysos asketes, see Orth 2014. 71-3. This fragment
can reasonably be taken to suggest that the chorus of the play was made up
of satyrs who engaged in various athletic activities, here boxing or pankra-
hon-fighting.
For the fragment of Aeschylus, see Luppe 2013b, who suggests restoring
στυγτ) δέ τοιούτο<οισι περί αύτοΰ λέγων\ “you will be hated by such people
when/because you speak about yourself”.