Αύτόλυκος α β' (fr. 72)

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taken to suggest that the word’s status as proper Attic vocabulary had been
called into question, although no obvious candidate for a “more appropriate”
alternative term presents itself. But perhaps Eupolis used it instead in an
unusual way, as he seems to have done with άνωφέλητος in fr. 409 (n.).

fr. 71 K.-A. (63 K.)
Phot, a 2882 = Synag. B a 2153
άρρωστήμων· Εϋπολις Αύτολύκω
άρρωστήμων Synag. Β : άρρωστημένον Phot.
infirm: Eupolis in Autolykos
Meter If Eupolis used the word in the nominative (-), the meter was
likely anapaestic or dactylic. But it may simply have been lemmatized this
way, and the oblique forms ( or-^—) could easily be accommo-
dated in iambic trimeter.
Citation context From the common source of Photius and the Synagoge
B commonly designated Σ ', presumably drawing on a lost Hellenistic or
Roman-era lexicographer.
Text Photius’ άρρωστημένον is a non-form and likely represents a misun-
derstood ligature (άρρωστήμν vel sim.).
Interpretation άρρωστήμων is a hapax alternative to the common pro-
saic άρρωστος (e.g. Hp. Aer. 6 - 2.24.19 Littre; Th. 8.83.2; X. Oec. 4.2). For
similar formations—probably a mark of elevated style (cf. Pi. fr. *124.a.b.8
άχρήμων; A. Th. 917 αύτοπήμων; Ag. 180 μνησιπήμων, 1060 άξυνήμων; Eu. 938
δενδροπήμων) or mock-elevated style—cf. Eub. fr. 44.2 φιλοτραγήμων; Nicoch.
fr. 26 άνηλεήμων; and see in general Risch 1937. 44-5; Schwyzer 1953 i.522.

fr. 72 K.-A. (64 K.)
Antiatt. β 12
βιασμός· Εΰπολις Αύτολύκω
b i a s m o s: Eupolis in Autolykos

Discussion Lobeck 1837. 511-12