Είλωτες (fr. 148)

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fr. 148 K.-A. (139 K.)
τα Στησιχόρου τε και Αλκμάνος Σιμωνίδου τε
άρχαϊον άεΐσαι, ό δέ Γνήσιππος εστ’ άκούειν,
δς νυκτερίν’ ηύρε | μοιχοΐς f άείσματ’ έκκαλεΐσθαι
γυναίκας έχοντας ίαμβύκην τε καί τρίγωνον
2 άεΐσαι scripsi : άείδειν Ath.A 3 δς Hermann : κείνος Ath.A ηύρε Her-
werden : εύρε Ath.ALE μοιχοΐς Ath.A : μυχοϊς Hermann 4 έχοντας Ath.A :
έχουσιν Herwerden
To sing the songs of Stesichorus, Aleman and Simonides
is old-fashioned, but it’s possible to hear Gnesippus,
who discovered night-time ditties ψ for adulterers f to call forth
women, as they hold an iambuke and a trigonos

Ath. 14.638e
καί ό τούς Είλωτας δέ πεποιηκώς φησιν--
And the author of Heildtes says:-

Meter A comic dicolon (x D x ith) also attested at frr. 250; 317; Gratin, fr. 360
(direct address of the audience); Pherecr. fr. 71; Ar. V. 1529-37 (pronounced
along with the grand dance finale, as Philocleon and the “sons of Carcinus”
lead the chorus out of the Theater); adesp. com. fr. 1105.70-103; Diph. fr. 12.
See West 1982. 97, and in general fr. 395 n. on Meter.

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Discussion Herwerden 1855. 24; Kock 18801.294-5; Wilamowitz 1921. 385-6;
Rose 1942; Maas and Snyder 1989. 150-1; West 1992a. 76; Kugelmeier 1996.
77, 254; Davidson 2000. 41, 48-9; Storey 2003. 178-9; Prauscello 2006; Olson
2007. 181-2 (D13)
Citation context One of a number of comic references to Gnesippus (pre-
ceded by Chion. fr. 4; followed by Cratin. frr. 104; 17; 276; Telecl. fr. 36) pre-
served at Ath. 14.638d-9a as part of a larger discussion of lewd poetry of all
sorts, and presumably drawn from a catalogue of komdidoumenoi. CE (the
Epitome manuscripts) preserve only a very abbreviated version of the text of
the Eupolis fragment.