Αύτόλυκος α' β' (fr. 75)

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then, nouthetein men who are hard to please”), νουθέτησες (first attested here
and at E. HF 1256; subsequently at Pl. Prt. 326a; Lg. 700c, 701b, 822d; Arist.
EN 1102b34) is properly the act of offering such admonishment or advice (cf.
Pl. Def. 416a), νουθέτημα the admonishment or advice itself. Moeris’ koine
alternative νουθεσία is attested already at Ar. Ra. 1009 and becomes common
in the Roman period. Cf. Menander’s eccentric νουθετησμός (fr. 629, quoted
at Poll. 9.139 τά δέ πράγματα νουθεσία καί ώς Πλάτων νουθετεία128· φαύλος
γάρ ό Μενάνδρου νουθετισμός [sic]; cf. fr. 72 n.); Phot, v 272 νουθετίαν και
νουθετησμόν λέγουσι; Handley 1953 (arguing that nouns in -σις tend to have
an intellectual or poetic coloring); Long 1968. 14-18 (tracing the flourishing
of such forms to Ionia in the late Archaic period).

fr. 75 K.-A. (67 K.)
Poll. 7.202
τό δέ πορνεύεσθαι ρήμα έν τώ πρώτω Εύπόλιδος Αΰτολύκω
And the word porneuesthai (“to prostitute oneself”) (is found) in Eupolis’
Autolykos I
Citation context From near the end of a brief collection of words having to
do with prostitutes and prostitution. Hermipp. fr. 9 and Ar. fr. 494 are cited
immediately before this, Pl. Com. fr. 174 (likewise only a verb in the infinitive,
πορνοκοπήσαι), Aeschin. 3.214 and Phryn. Com. fr. 34 immediately afterward.
Interpretation Middle πορνεύεσθαι (“to prostitute oneself”, the allegedly
voluntary nature of the action being crucial to the sense) appears to be the
standard form of the verb in the classical period129 and can be used of both
women (e. g. Hdt. 1.93.4; Lys. fr. 208; D. 22.61; [D.] 59.107; Theopomp. Hist.
FGrH 115 F 227) and men (Aeschin. 1.29, citing an Athenian law listing indi-
viduals forbidden to speak in the Assembly). The middle is mostly replaced
by the active in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, hence perhaps Pollux’
interest in the word. That the reference was to Autolykos’ behavior in regard
to Callias is possible but only a guess; cf. the Just Argument’s sneering refer-

128 Neither νουθετεία nor νουθετία is found anywhere in the philosopher Plato, so
most likely the reference is to Plato Comicus (not in Kassel-Austin).
129 The active becomes common later on; cf. Hdt. 1.93.4 τοϋ γάρ δή Λυδών δήμου
αί θυγατέρες πορνεύονται πάσαι as reworked at Str. 11.533 τοιοϋτον δέ τι και
'Ηρόδοτος λέγει τό περί τάς Λυδάς· πορνεύειν γάρ άπάσας.