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Eupolis

be why it caught a lexicographer’s eye but does not mean that Eupolis coined
the term. Presumably the sense is “fellow neighbor”, like συμπαραστάτης
(“fellow assistant”) at Ar. Pl. 326.
άγχίθυρος is almost certainly from Thgn. 302 λάτρισι και δμωσίν γείτοσί
τ’ άγχιθύροις. For πρόσοικος and προσοικέω (prosaic), e. g. Th. 1.7.1; Pl. Ti.
22d.

[fr. *190 K.-A. (173 K.)]
Aelian fr. 109 Hercher ap. Suda i 444
’Ιούνιος ..., διά τό και φαγεϊν ζών, συνήθης ήν τρισί πλουσίοις, κοιλιοδαίμων (fr. 187)
τε καί ταγηνοκνισοθήρας· βούλομαι γάρ τα τής κωμωδίας ές τούς τοιούτους
είπεΐν
Junius ..., who lived to eat, was a close friend of three wealthy men, and was a koilio-
daimon (“one who makes his belly his god”; fr. 187) and a tagenoknisotheras;
for I want to use comedy’s terms for people like this
Meter Perhaps iambic trimeter, e. g.
<X->—
Discussion Kock 1880 11.306; D’Agostino 1957. 76-7; Sarati 1996. 108
Citation context Assigned to Aelian by Meineke 1839 11.487. Other abbrevi-
ated references to the same passage are preserved at Suda τ 11; φ 8.
Interpretation Athenaeus traces κοιλιοδαίμων (fr. 187 with n.) to Eupolis,
but (pace Kock) the Suda passage provides no substantial ground for taking
ταγηνοκνισοθήρας to be drawn from him as well. This ought thus to be treat-
ed instead as an adespoton comic fragment, like όνοματοθήρας (Ath. 3.98a;
14.649b) and perhaps χλαινοθήρας (Eust. p. 1863.59 = ii.201.20).
For the τάγηνον (“skillet”), cf. frr. 155 n.; 374 n.; 385.1. For κνίσα (the rich,
fatty smell of roasting meat), e. g. Ar. Ach. 1044-6; Pax 1050; Ephipp. fr. 3.3;
Matro fr. 1.82 with Olson-Sens 1999 ad loc. For elaborate comic compounds of
this sort, see fr. 424 n., and cf. specifically Amphis fr. 10.1 κνισολοιχέ (“fat-lick-
er”; also Antiph. fr. 65; Sophil. fr. 8); adesp. com. fr. *622 κνισοτηρητής (“one
who keeps an eye out for κνίσα”); Asius fr. 14.2 κνισοκόλαξ (“κνΐσα-flatterer”).