178

Eupolis

(“ androgynoi: weak men, with the hearts of women”; from the common source
generally referred to as Σ'). The Suda entry adds before this: άνδρόγυνος· ό
Διόνυσος, ώς καί τά άνδρών ποιων καί τά γυναικών πάσχων. ή άνανδρος,
καί ερμαφρόδιτος (“androgynos: Dionysus, as both doing what men do and
enduring what women endure (sc. sexually). Or someone who is no man, and
a hermaphrodite”). Cf. also Ael.Dion. a 177.
Text Wilamowitz, comparing the entry in Photius = Suda = Synagoge, pro-
posed ανδρογύνων “to mend the quantity of the omicron. But no change is
necessary.
Interpretation A disparaging description of someone “unmanly” but simul-
taneously—i. e. on that account—attractive; cf. fr. 368 with n.
άνδρόγυνον First attested here and at Hdt. 4.67.2, and explicitly treat-
ed as abusive at Pl. Smp. 189e νϋν δέ ούκ έστιν άλλ’ ή έν όνείδει όνομα
κείμενον (“But now it is a name used only in reproach”; from the speech of
“Aristophanes”), as also at Aeschin. 2.127 όμολόγησον άνδρόγυνος είναι καί
μή ελεύθερος (“Admit that you’re an androgynos and not a free man!”); Men.
Asp. 242; Sam. 69; cf. Kapparis 2011. 244-5.
άθυρμα (“plaything, bauble, trinket”; { άθύρω, “play”) is something triv-
ial in which a person nonetheless takes delight. Exclusively poetic vocabulary
(e.g. II. 15.363; hDem. 16; Sapph. fr. 44.9; Pi. P. 5.23; E. fr. 272; Cratin. fr. 152;
Crates Com. fr. 23 άφροδισίοις άθύρμασιν); see Komornicka 1981. 68.

fr. 47 K.-A.
Phot, ε 563
έλάφεια· τάς έλαφείους αστραγάλους, ούτως Εΰπολις (Tsantsanoglou : άπολις
Phot.) Αστράτευτο ις
e lap he ία: knucklebones from deer (elaphoi). Thus Eupolis (thus Tsantsanoglou :
apolis Phot.) in Astrateutoi
Discussion Tsantsanoglou 1984. 118
Citation context The title of the play puts Tsantsanoglou’s correction of
the paradosis άπολις to Εΰπολις beyond any reasonable doubt. Hsch. ε 1909
έλαφίαι· οί των έλάφων αστράγαλοι (“elaphiai: deer knucklebones”) must be
drawn from the same source, presumably an Atticist lexicographer.
Interpretation As Tsantsanoglou notes, the use of knucklebones from deer is
otherwise unknown, although there are numerous references to knucklebones