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Eupolis

taus or three?), see Delneri 2006. 341. For φορτικός (literally “burdensome”),
see Biles-Olson 2015 on Ar. V. 66. For the use of διατίθεται, e.g. Str. 14.642;
Σι>Τ II. 18.356; 24.85; ZBD Pi. N. 4.148.

fr. 94 K.-A. (84 K.)
Jo.Alex. De accent, p. 36.12-17 Dindorf
τά σχετλιαστικά των εις οι και αι άλογον εχει τον τόνον, ίχ μέν γάρ αύτών περισπάται,
ώς ... τό σαβαϊ παρ’ Εύπόλιδι έν Βάπταις. τό δε εύαί παρά τω αύτω όξύνεται,
εύαί σαβαϊ
εύαί σαβαϊ Jo.Alex. : εύοϊ σαβοϊ Lobeck
Exclamations ending in oi and ai have an irrational accent; for some of them take a
circumflex on the final syllable, like ... sab ai in Eupolis in Baptai, whereas euai in
the same author has an acute accent, e u a i s ab ai
Meter Although εύαί σαβαϊ could easily be made to fit in iambic trimeter
(e. g. —<x—x—elsewhere in drama εύοϊ and εύαί are attested
only in lyric passages.
Discussion Lobeck 1829. 1030-1 n. 39; Fritzsche 1835. 211-12; Schiassi 1944.
105; Kaibel ap. K.-A.; Delneri 2006. 344-6
Citation context From Johannes Philoponus’ epitome of Herodian, De pro-
sodia catholica (Grammatici Graeci III.l p. 502.18-22; cf. Arc. pp. 208.16-209.1,
but without reference to Eupolis), which itself doubtless drew on now-lost
Alexandrian sources.
Text Lobeck suggested εύοϊ σαβοϊ in place of the paradosis εύαί σαβαϊ. But
the existence of εύαί directly alongside εύοϊ at Ar. Lys. 1294; Ec. 1180-3 makes
it likely that σαβαϊ (not attested elsewhere) was a legitimate variant of σαβοϊ.
Interpretation Only σαβαϊ is explicitly attributed to Baptai, and these ought
probably to have been treated as two separate fragments of Eupolis, with εύαί
σαβαϊ classified as an incertum.
εύοϊ/εύαί (attested elsewhere at Ar. Lys. 1294; Th. 994a; Ec. 1180-3; S.
Tr. 219; E. Tr. 326; Ba. 141; see Labiano Ilundain 2000. 175-6; Nordgren 2015.
222-3) and σαβοϊ / σαβαϊ are ecstatic ritual cries (no etymology, although the
latter is sometimes connected with the divine name Sabazios), used together
in the worship of an unidentified mystic deity at D. 18.260 καί βοών “εύοϊ
σαβοϊ” (“and shouting ‘euoi saboi’”; cf. Men. fr. 610; Phot, ε 2267 = Suda ε 3787