Προσπάλτιοι (fr. 259)

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someone(?) Exekestos (acc.) [
75 ταλου I gather/convey [
being present (masc. acc. sing, or neut. nom./acc. sing.) ταυ[
he/she/it seems to me(?) to [
Meter Unknown.
Interpretation The personal names Syrakosios and Exekestos must be drawn
from the text of Eupolis. How much of what follows is commentary and how
much is text165 is uncertain.
For Syrakosios (PAA 853435), a contemporary politician, see fr. 220.1 n.166
Exekestos (PAA 388245; Stephanis #243) is otherwise unknown, and the
name is common (about 20 other 5th-/4th-century examples in LGPNIT). Lobel
compared the references to a citharode in 61 and to legal arrangements
involving metics in 62-6, along with the claim at Ar. Av. 11, 764, 1527 that the
citharode Exekestides (PAA 388087; Stephanis #842) was a foreigner, implicitly
suggesting that Exekestos and Exekestides were the same man. Austin 1973
compares adesp. com. fr. 337 ap. Hsch. ε 3839 Εξήκεστος· ήταιρηκώς. δθεν
και τούς πρωκτούς όμωνύμως Έξηκέστους ελεγον (“Exekestos: a man who
had been prostituted. As a consequence of which, they used to call assholes
by the same name, ‘Exekestoi’”).
fr. 259g = Eup. fr. 259.78 K.-A.
μηδ’ ϋθλει
Don’t talk nonsense!
Meter Unknown.
Context POxy. 2813 fr. Id col. 11.38—9 = Eup. fr. 259.78-9 K.-A.
78 μηδ’ ϋθλει μή φ[λυάρει
πεια κλωγμός .[
78 suppl. Lobel

165 75 ταλου κομίζω —) would scan as part of an iambic trimeter.
166 That “429 is rather early for him” (Storey 2003. 233) is better treated as further
evidence against that date for the play than as a reason to treat this as an ethnic
(“Syracusan”).