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Eupolis

fr. 153 K.-A. (143 K.)
Ath. 9.400b-c
(λ a γ ώ ς, λαγός) δει δέ όξυτονεΐν τήν λέξιν, επειδή τά εις ος λήγοντα τών ονομάτων
ομότονα έστι, καν μεταληφθή είς τό ω παρ’ Αττικοϊς ... ούτως δ’ έχρήσατο τω όνόματι
καί 'Επίχαρμος (fr. 53.1) καί Ηρόδοτος (1.123.4, 124.1) καί ό τούς Είλωτας ποιήσας
(Iagos, Iagos, “hare”) One ought to accent the word with an acute on the final syllable,
since nouns that end in -os have the same accent even if [the omicron] is changed to
omega in Attic authors ... Epicharmus (fr. 53.1), Herodotus (1.123.4, 124.1) and the
author of Heildtes handled the noun in this way
Discussion Schiassi 1944. 24
Citation context From a discussion of the accentuation of the word, traced
by Athenaeus (9.400a) to Tryphon (fr. 19 Velsen), that also preserves fr. 174.2-3
(n.).
Interpretation For the hare—a delicacy, although Eupolis might just as easily
have been referring e. g. to its speed in flight (e. g. Posidipp. fr. 28.9) or its status
as a standard hunting quarry (e. g. X. Cyn. 5; cf. fr. 339 n.)—see fr. 174.2 (where
the word is again spelled with omega; part of a banquet catalogue) with n.
λαγώς is traditionally understood as a bahuvrihi compound meaning “long
ear”. For the variation in the form, see Schwyzer 1939 1.557-8.

fr. 154 K.-A.

Zenob. Ath. 3.61
Λιμοδωριεΐς· μέμνηται ταύτης (sc. τής παροιμίας) Εϋπολις έν Εϊλωσιν. Αίσχρίων
δέ φησιν ό Βυζάντιος ώς σιτοδείας ποτέ γενομένης έν Πελοπον<ν>ήσω έφόδιά τινες
λαβόντες άπήραν· πλανωμένους δέ αυτούς ύπεδέξατο ή έν'Ρόδω τρίπολις. έκλήθησαν
δέ διά τούτο Λιμοδωριεΐς
Εϊλωσιν. Αίσχρίων Kugeas : ίλωσίναις· χρίων A
Famine-Dorians: Eupolis mentions this (proverb) in Heilotes. Aeschrion of
Byzantium says that at one point when there was a famine in the Peloponnesus, some
people took travel-provisions and left; and the tripolis in Rhodes took them in in the
course of their wanderings. On this account they were called Famine-Dorians

Meter Probably iambic trimeter, e. g.
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