464

Eupolis

it”); Σμναβ E. Hipp. 141 οϊανπερ αύτήν εισάγει καί κυνηγεσίων έρώσαν (“[the
speaker] refers to [Phaedra] as someone like this and as being in love with
hunting”); Σ Hes. Op. 220 εισάγει γάρ την Δικαιοσύνην ήττωμένην (“for he re-
fers to Justice as defeated”); Σι,Τ II. 1.21 τον Απόλλωνα πολεμούντα αύτοΐς ώς
έκηβόλον εισάγει, διά των τούτου τόξων έκφοβών αύτούς (“[Chryses] refers
to Apollo when he wages war on them as hekebolon, as a way of frightening
them by reference to his bow”). Despite Wilamowitz, there is accordingly no
reason to think that Peisistratus was a character in Demoi.
For the mid-6th-century Athenian tyrant Peisistratus (PA 11793; PAA
771760) and his various seizures of power, see Andrewes 1982; Forsdyke
2000. 242-6; Lavelle 2005; Forsdyke 2006. 101-21. This is the only mention of
Peisistratus in comedy, where the arch-tyrant is always his son Hippias (Ar.
Eq. 449; V. 502; Lys. 618,1115). For the term τύραννος and cognates, see Archil,
frr. 19.3; 23.20 (quoted in n. 286 above); Semon. fr. 7.69; Ale. fr. 348.3; Parker
1998; Austin-Olson 2004 on Ar. Th. 338-9 (on tyrants in the Athenian popular
imagination); Anderson 2005 with further bibliography. Taken by Beekes 2010
s. v. to be substrate vocabulary (“none of the alternative hypotheses is plausi-
ble”), but just as likely a loan-word from some Eastern language.
Kaibel suggested that it must have been Solon who spoke of Peisistratus,
which is merely a guess. The characterization of Peisistratus as a king rather
than a tyrant might in any case have been intended to soften his image, by
suggesting that his rule was fundamentally legitimate.

fr. 138 K.-A. (126 K. = Demoi fr. 41 Telo)
Σν Ar. Pax 348b (= 348e Koster)
πέμπτος (Φορμίων) αρχαίος Αθηναίος μετά Σάλωνα άρξας· Εϋπολις έν Δήμοις
The fifth (Phormio) was an ancient Athenian who served as archon after Solon; Eupolis
in Demoi
Discussion Wilamowitz 1893 1.179 n. 84; Cadoux 1948. 99; Bradeen 1963.
191-2; McGregor 1974. 20-1; Telo 2007. 626-7
Citation context From a catalogue of men named Phormio at the end of a
learned note on Ar. Pax 347b (where the reference is to the late 5th-century
Athenian general) that also preserves frr. 44; 274 (where see n.). Presumably
drawn from a list of kdmoidoumenoi.
Interpretation Phormio (PA 14948; PAA 962785) is known only from this
passage, although his name has been restored at IG I3 1031.15 Φ[ό]ρ[-] as