276

Eupolis

Eq. 1225 (where the preceding verb-form, έστεφάνιξα, is indeed apparently
Doric) marks the re-use here as a subtle, witty element in the response to the
charge of plagiarism (“tu quoque”). Like most such claims, this one cannot be
disproven, but the joke seems too complicated and obscure to be funny.

fr. 90 K.-A. (80 K.)
ΣνΓ Ar. V. 687
Χαιρέου υιός· οΐον ουδέ γνήσιος πολίτης, τον γάρ Χαιρέαν Εϋπολις έν Βάπταις ώς
ξένον κωμωδεΐ
“the son of Chaireas”: as if he were not even a legitimate citizen. For Eupolis in Baptai
ridicules Chaireas as a foreigner
Discussion Wilamowitz 1893. 68 n. 40; Delneri 2006. 331
Citation context A gloss on part of Bdelycleon’s hostile description of a
high-handed, effeminate young prosecutor, probably drawing on a catalogue
of kdmoidoumenoi.
Interpretation Chaireas was a popular name in all periods (20+ addition-
al 5th-/4th-century examples from Athens in LGPNIV), and whether the man
Eupolis referred to (PAA 971305) and the one mentioned in Aristophanes (PAA
971300) were the same person (= PA 15091) is—despite the scholion and the
earlier scholarship on which it was drawing—impossible to say. For charges of
foreign birth as a staple of Athenian political and social invective, see fr. 61 n.
That effeminacy seems to have been basic to the characterization of Kotyto’s
celebrants in Baptai (test, i-ii), as also to the characterization of Chaireas’ son
in Wasps, may have something to do with the mention of Chaireas by Eupolis,
but the evidence of the scholion does not actually show as much.

fr. 91 K.-A. (81 K.)
Hsch. β 311
Βαστάς ό Χίος (Kassel-Austin:ΒάσταςόΧίοςMusurus : Βαστα * οχειοςHsch.)·
Δημοκρίτου έπώνυμον, καθά καί Εΰπολις έν Βάπταις. έστι δέ ιστοριογράφος
Bastas of Chios (Kassel-Austin : thus but with a different accent Musurus :
Basta * ocheios Hsch.): a nickname of Democritus, as Eupolis also (attests) in Baptai.
And there is a historiographer