Αστράτευτοι ή Άνδρόγυνοι (fr. 37)

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combined with ΙΙ.2. That these are “running-tracks” in the modern sense is
not clear, however, and Xenophon instead twice treats dromoi as large open
areas that can be used to marshal and drill foot-soldiers and cavalry (X. Cyr.
2.3.22; Eq.Mag. 3.6), suggesting that they more closely resembled a modern
playground or sportsfield, the crucial point being that the area was smoothed
in some rudimentary fashion and thus safe and convenient to run on, be it
for horses or human beings.
Έκαδήμου θεού Eitrem 1912 p. 1139.3-22 (cited by Kassel-Austin) offers
a short list of heroes treated or referred to as gods, including Colonus at S. OC
65 and Tlapolemos at Pi. O. 7.77-9.

fr. 37 K.-A. (35 K.)
Αθηναίων εί βούλεται τις έγγράφειν
if any Athenian wants to register a name
Choerob. adHeph. ench. 1.6 (p. 194.16-19 Consbruch)
τό αύτό δέ έστι και επί τής αι διφθόγγου, ώς Εϋπολις έν Άστρατεύτοις φησίν·-
The same phenomenon occurs in the case of the diphthong ai, as Eupolis says in
Astrateutoi:-
Meter lambic trimeter.
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Citation context From Georgius Choeroboscus’ (8th/9th c. CE) commentary
on the metrical handbook of Hephaestion (2nd c. CE), which survives only in
a radically epitomized version; Hense 1870. vii argues that Choeroboscus is
drawing on Heliodorus (cm 100 CE). The general topic under discussion is the
shortening in poetry of what would normally be expected to be long syllables.
Interpretation A conditional clause, perhaps originally setting the terms for
a threat (cf. Ar. Th. 248) or an order (cf. Ar. V. 1498), or as part of an official
public announcement (cf. Ar. Ach. 1000-2).
For the internal correption in Αθηναίων, cf. Pherecr. fr. 39; Polyzel. fr. 12.3
(both cited by Kassel-Austin); Bacch. 17.92; and see in general Sjölund 1938.
36-7; West 1966 on Hes. Th. 15. The position of the word at the head of the
line lends it emphasis (“if any Athenian”).
εγγράφω can mean “inscribe” (e. g. Ar. Ra. 933; Hdt. 8.82.1; E. Supp. 1202)
or “write out, copy out” (e. g. Ar. V. 961; Av. 982), but in an Athenian public