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Fragments
fr. 76 K.-A. (73 K.)
άλλ’ ούχί δυνατόν έστιν· ού γάρ άλλα προ-
βούλευμα βαστάζουσι τής πόλεως μέγα
1 άλλ(ά) Bentley: άλλο Heph. 1-2 προβούλευμα Heph.: πρω-/βούλευμα Bergk
: πρώ / βούλευμα Meineke 2 τής πόλεως Heph. : τής βουλής Kaibel
But it’s impossible; because they’re really weighing
a major Council motion involving the city
Heph. Ench. 4.6 (pp. 14.22-15.13 Consbruch)
παν μέτρον εις τελείαν περατοϋται λέξιν- δθεν έπίληπτά έστι τα τοιαΰτα Σιμωνίδου
έκ των επιγραμμάτων (FGE 684-5):-, καί πάλιν Νικομάχου τού τήν περί των ζω-
γράφων έλεγείαν πεποιηκότος (Bergk, PEG Π.316)· -. ταϋτα μέν ούν έγένετο διά
τήν των ονομάτων άνάγκην—ού γάρ ένεχώρει—ένια δέ καί παίζουσιν οί κωμικοί, ώς
Εϋπολις Βάπταις·-
Every meter ends with a complete word; as a consequence of which, lines such as
these by Simonides from the Epigrams ought to be censured (FGE 684-5):-, and
again (these) by the Nicomachus who wrote the elegy about the painters (Bergk, PEG
Π.316):-. So these then were (written thus) because of the necessity imposed by the
names—because they did not fit (the meter)—whereas the comic poets also offer some
as jokes, as Eupolis (does) in Baptai:-

Meter lambic trimeter.

Discussion Fritzsche 1835. 237-8; Bergk 1838. 296; Meineke 1839 II.448-9;
Bothe 1855. 159; Wilamowitz 1876. 297; van Leeuwen 1904. 113 (on Ar. Pl. 752);
Schiassi 1944. 105-6; Kaibel ap. K.-A.; Delneri 2006. 279-83
Citation context From near the end of a section on how metrical patterns
end, in the surviving, abridged version of a metrical handbook originally com-
posed in the 2nd century CE most likely drawing on Heliodorus. Cf. Marius
Victorinus/Aphthonius art. gramm. 1.14 (Grammatici LatiniVIp. 56.2-5) omnis
autem versus ab Integra parte orationis incipit et in integram desinit exceptis
his, quae in comoediis ioculariter dicta corrupta aut semiplena efferentur, aut
quae raro apud epicos metri necessitate dividuntur (“every verse, however, be-
gins with a complete part of speech and ends with a complete one, with the