Φίλοι (fr. 294)

455

For πριν καί + infin. (not used thus in tragedy or lyric), e. g. Ar. Av. 1034;
Antiph. fr. 189.4; Th. 4.128.1; D. 21.162.
τήν ιππικήν sc. τέχνην (cf. Ar. Pl. 905), “horsemanship, riding”, as at e. g.
Ar. Nu. 107; V. 1429; X. Cyr. 1.4.5; Pl. La. 182a. For adjectives in -ικός (exploding
in popularity in the late 5th century), see fr. 350 n.

fr. 294 K.-A. (274 K.)
Σ™ Pl. Mx. 235e (pp. 182-3 Greene)
Κρατϊνος δέ 4 Όμφάλη τύραννον αύτήν καλεϊ χείρων 4 Εϋπολις Φίλοις· έν δε
Προσπαλτίοις (fr. 267) Ελένην αύτήν καλεϊ
sic Σ : τύραννον αύτήν καλεϊ Χείρωσιν, Όμφάλην Bergk : Όμφάλην αύτήν καλεϊ
Χείρωσιν, τύραννον δέ Meineke : Όμφάλη τύραννον αύτήν καλεϊ, Χείρωνα Schwarze
: fort. Όμφάλην <κα'ι> τύραννον αύτήν καλεϊ Χείρωσιν, < .··) χείρων Σ : Δηιάνειραν
Jacobs : "Ηραν Meineke
But Cratinus (fr. 259) 4 in Omphale calls her tyrannos worse 4 Eupolis in Philoi·, whereas
in Prospaltioi (fr. 267) he calls her Helen
Discussion Bergk 1838. 238; Meineke 1847 1.206; Edmonds 1957. 409 n. c;
Schiassi 1955. 297-8; Schwarze 1971. 57-9, 122-3; Storey 2003. 265; Storey
2011. 227
Citation context From a richly informed biographical note on Aspasia that
also includes a reference to fr. 110; presumably drawn from a catalogue of
kdmdidoumenoi.
Text See fr. 267 n. If Meineke’s correction of the paradosis is correct, we have
no idea what Eupolis called Aspasia in Philoi, unless τύραννον has somehow
been transposed to where it now stands in the text and a particle lost (a
thesis too complicated to be taken seriously); the suggestions of Jacobs and
Meineke—the latter driven by an attempt to connect this reference with fr.
438 (Eupolis called Hera βοώπις) and Plu. Per. 24—are little more than shots
in the dark. Alternatively, Schwarz 1971. 59 suggested that Cratinus may have
called Aspasia “Omphale the tyrant”, and that Eupolis called her “Cheiron”,
i. e. “Pericles’ teacher” (sc. in rhetoric; cf. Call. Com. fr. *21).
Interpretation For Pericles’ Milesian mistress Aspasia (PAA 222330), see fr.
267 n. Kassel-Austin identify the beginning of the citation context here with
Cratinus fr. *259. But Aspasia is there called Hera, and the reference in the
scholion to Plato ought probably to have been given a separate number.