486

Eupolis

phenomenon at p. 10.1-5 Consbruch. On the analysis offered here, τώκήματι
represents elision-crasis-synaeresis because -ω in the original τω οίκήματι is
simultaneously elided and combined with oh, with the result then simplified
into ώ-.
Interpretation A report of a failed search; καί coordinates this action with
another one described in the immediately preceding verse or verses.
σκεύος is “gear, equipment, stuff” of any sort, including household
furnishings (e. g. frr. 161.1 with n.; 191 σκευάρι(α) with n.; Pl. R. 596b), vessels
and cookware (e. g. Ar. V. 939; Ec. 728; Eub. fr. 30.1) and tools (e.g. Ar. Pax 552);
specifically distinguished from the house in which such goods are kept at Ar.
Th. 401-2; Lys. 19.31; Arist. EN1175a25; cf. fr. 285 n.; X. Mem. 2.4.2.
τω (οί)κήματι At fr. 48.2, the noun clearly means “(small) house” rather
than “room” (e.g. Lys. fr. 279.28), but either sense is possible here.

fr. 308 K.-A. (286 K.)
άριθμειν θεατάς ψαμμακοσίους
spectators sand-hundreds in number
Σεγ Ar. Ach. 3
ψαμμοκοσιογάργαρα· οΐον πολλά καί αναρίθμητα, τό γάρ ψαμμοκόσια καθ’ εαυτό έπί
πλήθους ετίθετο, παρά μεν Εύπόλιδι έν Χρυσω Γένει οϋτως·-, παρά τό έξακοσίους
(ή) έπτακοσίους άπό τής ψάμμου άριθμητικώς γεγενημένον. καί τά γάργαρα δέ έπί
πλήθους
psammokosiogargara: i. e. many and numberless. Because psammokosia is used by itself
in reference to a crowd, on the one hand in Eupolis in Chrysoun genos as follows: ,
being formed like a number from psammos (“sand”) on the model of hexakosioi (“600”)
(or) heptakosioi (“700”). And gargara is also used in reference to a crowd
Σβέ Ar. Ach. 3
(ψαμμακοσιογάργαρα) άπό δύο λέξεων τό σύνθετον έγένετο δηλουσών πολλά, σύ-
γκειται γάρ άπό τε τής ψάμμου καί των γαργάρων ... καί Εύπολις έπεσημήνατο τήν
λέξιν είπών-. δύναται γάρ έγκεΐσθαι τή λέξει τό -κόσια, ήτις έστί κατάληξις των
μετά τον έκατόν άριθμών μέχρι των χιλίων
(psammakosiogargara) The compound was formed from two words that mean “many”;
because it is a compound of psammos and gargara ... Eupolis also gave his approval to
the word when he said-; for -kosia, which is the ending of the numbers after 100
up to 1000, can be included in the word