Βάπται (fr. 82)

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reports that in the course of his journey through the sky he saw dithyrambic
poets ξυνελέγοντ’ άναβολάς, “collecting preludes”; Av. 1383-5 (the dithyram-
bic poet Cinesias wants wings so that he can soar up into the sky and λαβεΐν /
... άναβολάς, “get preludes”) with Dunbar 1995 ad loc.; Arist. Rh. 1409a25 cd
έν τοΐς διθυράμβοις άναβολοά, “the preludes in the dithyrambs”). For κύκλιος
used in this sense, in reference to the circular dancing that accompanied the
performance of dithyrambic songs, cf. Pi. Dith. 2.4-5 = fr. 70b.4-5 (conjectural);
Ar. Nu. 333 κύκλιων ... χορών (“dithyrambic choruses”); Av. 917-18 μέλη ... /
κύκλια (“dithyrambic songs”), 1403 κυκλιοδιδάσκαλος (“dithyrambic poet”);
Ra. 366 κυκλίοισι χοροΐσιν (“dithyrambic choruses”); fr. 156.10 (Cinesias as
one of οι κύκλιοι (“the dithyrambic poets”); X. Oec. 8.20, Lys. 21.2 and Aeschin.
1.10 and 3.232, all κύκλιος χορός (“dithyrambic chorus”). For dithyramb, sup-
posedly invented by the semi-legendary Arion in the late 7th/early 6th century
BCE, and one of the main events at the City Dionysia festival in Athens, where
tribal choruses of both men and boys competed, see Pickard-Cambridge 1962.
31-55; Hamilton 1990 (on Pindaric dithyramb in particular); Zimmermann
1992; lerano 1997.

fr. 82 K.-A. (6 Dem.)
ούκ άνέχομ’ αύτόν· άντιπράττει παρά μέλος
άνέχομ’ Demianczuk : ανέχομαι Phot.
I don’t put up with him; he works against (me? us?) inappropriately
Phot, a 1901
άνέχεσθαι τούτον, ούχί τούτου. Εΰπολις Βάπταις-. ούτως Μένανδρος (Asp. 173-4)
καί Δημοσθένης (18.160)
to put up with this person, in the accusative rather than the genitive. Eupolis in Baptai:
-. Thus Menander (Asp. 173-4) and Demosthenes (18.160)
Meter lambic trimeter.
Discussion Schiassi 1944. 106; Velardi 1982-1983. 73-4; Storey 2003. 106;
Delneri 2006. 297-8
Citation context Eustathius twice identifies the use of the accusative with
ανέχομαι as an Atticism (pp. 725.53-4 = II.624.5-6 Αττικοί γοΰν τό ύπεροράν