Πόλεις (fr. 249)

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nections, travel and the like that such positions brought. The meter may sug-
gest an agon (thus Storey).
άσπουδος is not attested elsewhere, σπουδαρχίδης, on the other hand,
is also found at Ar. Ach. 595 and is probably a colloquial term of abuse; cf. the
similarly formed άρχογλυπτάδης (“office-hunter”; adesp. com. fr. 930); βοΐδης
(“oxlike”, i. e. “docile, dim”; Men. fr. 470); Έρμοκοπίδης (“Herm-chopper”, re-
ferring to one of the unknown individuals who mutilated the Athenian herms
on the eve of the Sicilian expedition; Ar. Lys. 1094); μισθαρχίδης (“the sort of
person who takes pay to hold office”, a coinage based on σπουδαρχίδης two
verses earlier?; Ar. Ach. 597); φθειροκομίδης (“flea-bearer”; adesp. com. fr.
437); συκοτραγίδης (“fig-nibbler”, i. e. “miser”; Hippon. fr. 177; Archil, fr. 250);
χρεωκοπίδης (“someone who cuts his debts”; Plu. Sol. 15.9, but presumably an
Atticism), and invented comic patronymics like κλεπτίδης (Pherecr. fr. 252)
and πανουργιππαρχίδης (Ar. Ach. 603). For σπουδάζω and cognates used
of attempts to achieve political ends by underhanded means, cf. also Ar. Eq.
925-6, 1369-70 with Neil 1901 on 896-8; E. LA 337-42 (a detailed catalogue of
ways a candidate could curry favor with voters).
The most common word for “worse” is χείρων (e. g. fr. 392.4; Od. 21.325;
Pi. N. 8.22; S. Ph. 456; E. Heracl. 328; Ar. V. 1049; Th. 6.18.7; X. Mem. 1.2.27),
κακίων being confined before the very late 5th and 4th centuries BCE to poets
(e.g. Od. 14.56; Archil, fr. 5.4; Thgn. 262; A. Th. 600; S. fr. 836; E. Heracl. 326;
Hel. 419; Ar. Th. 532), who use it for metrical reasons, on the one hand, and
to Ionian authors (e.g. Hdt. 1.109.2; 9.107.1;142 Hp. Epid. Ill3A = 3.74.5 Littre),
on the other; subsequently in Attic prose at e.g. And. 2.4; X. Cyr. 2.1.25; Pl.
Eg. 904e.

fr. 249 K.-A. (235 K.)
εστι δε τις θήλεια Φιλόξενος έκ Διομείων
εστι λ : εστιν λ
But there is a certain female Philoxenos from Diomeia
Σν Ar. V. 82
ό Φιλόξενος έκωμωδεϊτο ώς πόρνος. Εϋπολις Πόλεσιν·-. και Φρύνιχος Σατύροις
(fr. 49)

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Contrast 6.109.2, where in a specifically Athenian context Herodotus uses χείρων.