Βάπται (fr. 81)

255

and Xenophon suggest that the underlying point is that his family was nei-
ther wealthy nor distinguished. Fritzsche suggested that the point was that
Archedemos was one of the Baptai.
επιχώριος is first attested at A. Supp. 661 (lyric) and Emped. 31 B 62.8
D.-K., and is common in Pindar (e.g. P. 4.118; N. 3.66; conjectural at Bacch.
13.92-3), but is subsequently restricted to comedy (e. g. Ar. Ach. 832; Nu. 601;
Antiph. fr. 171.2) and prose (e.g. Hp. Aer. 1 = 2.12.7 Littre; Hdt. 7.197.1; Th.
5.47.8; X. Cyr. 8.8.20; Pl. Phd. 59b). For the formation, see Strömberg 1946. 80.
χθων is poetic vocabulary and is restricted in comedy to elevated con-
texts (Ar. Nu. 282 (lyric), 300 (lyric); Av. 1752 (lyric); fr. 112.2 (lyric); Ephipp.
fr. 14.13 (a pseudo-sophisticated, paratragic invocation at the beginning of a
speech); Men. Sam. 325 = E. fr. 554b.I),148 suggesting that ξένης άπό χθονός
is paratragic (thus Hoffmann), as the echo at S. OC 1256 ξένης έπί χθονός*149
would seem to confirm.

fr. 81 K.-A. (5 Dem.)
αΰλησον αϋτη κύκλιον αναβολήν τινα
αϋτη Wilamowitz : αυτήν Phot. : αυτή Reitzenstein
You (fem. sing.)! Pipe a dithyrambic prelude!
Phot, a 1413
αναβολή· προοίμιον διθυραμβικού άσματος. Εύπολις Βάπταις--
anabole: a prelude of a dithyrambic song. Eupolis in Baptai:-

Meter lambic trimeter.
—— -|^j_
Discussion Wilamowitz 1907. 9 = 1962. 536-7; Schiassi 1944. 106; Velardi
1982-1983. 69-73; Taplin 1993. 108; Storey 2003. 106; Delneri 2006. 292-6;
Egan 2006. 65

148 The same is true of the cognate adjective χθόνιος, attested in comedy at Ar. Av.
1745 (anapaests), 1750 (dactyls in hymnic style); Th. 101 (paratragic lyric); Ra. 1126
- 1138 = A. Ch. 1 (echoed again at Ra. 1145, 1148); fr. 515.1 (anapaests).
149 Cf. E. fr. 448a.29 έκδημο[ς] ών τήσ[δ’ ή ’πιχ]ώριος χθ[ονός] (both parallels cited
by Kassel-Austin).