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Eupolis

[test, iv] (= Demoi test. 4 Telo)
loannes Doxapatres in Aphthon. (p. 142.16-18 Rabe)
έν τωΎπέρ των τεσσάρων (or. 3) τον Άριστείδην ποιήσαι είδωλοποιίαν καί
τον Ευπολιν έν Δήμοις ποιήσαι προσωποποιίαν
In his In Defense of the Four (or. 3), Aristides engaged in eiddlopoiia, while
Eupolis in Demoi engaged in prosdpopoiia
Context From a discussion of [test, iii], where prosdpopoiia is defined as
when an author creates both the person and the character assigned to him
(όταν 'άπαντα πλάττηται, και ήθος και πρόσωπον) and this sort of procedure
is said to be typical of Menander.174
Interpretation Doxapatres is merely glossing [test, iii] (n.), which is itself
reliant on test. *ii and Σ Aristid. or. 3.51. The passage thus preserves no orig-
inal evidence about Demoi and should not have been assigned a separate
testimonium number.

test. *v (= test. 34.10-12) (= Demoi test. 6 Telo)
Platonius, On the Differentiation of Styles (Proleg. de com. 11.11-12), p. 6 Koster
(Ευπολις) άναγαγεϊν ικανός ών έξ Άιδου νομοθετών πρόσωπα καί δι’ αύτών
είσηγούμενος ή περί θέσεως νόμων ή καταλύσεως
(Eupolis) being capable of bringing characters representing lawgivers up from
Hades and using them to propose the establishment or dissolution of laws

Discussion Telo 2007. 46-9
Context From an opinionated late Roman or Byzantine comparison of
Eupolis, Aristophanes and Cratinus.
Interpretation If Platonius’ claim that proposals for the establishment and
dissolution of laws were discussed in Demoi in scenes involving the four
statesmen is correct—and we have no ground for doubting it—this must have
occurred after the scene partially preserved in fr. 99.60-77.

174 Not included in the Kassel-Austin testimonia for Menander, although cf. test. 108
(from Aelius Theon).