490

Eupolis

who means to say “will close (the door, Θήραν)” but gets the verb wrong; cf.
fr. 309 n. For κατά-compounds of this sort, see Lindblad 1922. 95-6.

fr. 311 K.-A. (293 K.)
ώ Καλαβρέ t κιθαραοιδότατε
καλαβρέ Γ : καλαυρεν V : κατάλαβρ’ ώ Meineke, Kustero praeeunte : fort, καλαβρέ
<καί)
Ο Kalabre t exceptional citharode
Σ'1 Ar. V. 1278
κιθαραοιδότατον- τρ λέξει καί Εΰπολις κέχρηται έν Χρυσω γένει·-
kitharaoidotaton: Eupolis in Chrysoun genos also uses the word:-
Meter Paeonics? See Text.
Discussion Edmonds 1957. 417
Citation context A scholion on Ar. V. 1278, where the reference is to the
citharode Arignotus son of Automenes (PA 1612; PAA 162000; Stephanis #301;
cf. Ar. Eq. 1278-9).
Text These appear to be paeonics; if so, a long syllable is missing between
Καλαβρέ and κιθαραοιδότατε. Meineke suggested ώ κατάλαβρ’ ώ κιθαραοι-
δότατε (“Ο Katalabrel Ο exceptional citharode!”). It might be easier to read
καλαβρέ {και) (an easy omission before κιθαραοιδότατε).
Interpretation The kithara was a seven-stringed lyre; see Maas and Snyder
1989. 53-78; West 1992. 50-6; Austin-Olson 2004 on Ar. Ph. 120-2 (with fur-
ther bibliography). For citharodes, who sang along with the instrument rather
than simply playing it (as κιθαρισταί did), and who competed in Athens at
the Panathenaic festival but not at the City Dionysia or the Lenaea, e. g. fr.
259.61; Pherecr. fr. 6.1; Ar. Ra. 1282 κιθαρωδικών νόμων; Hdt. 1.23 (of Arion,
for the details of whose performance-style see Hdt 1.24.5); Hp. Carn. 18 =
8.608.12-15 Littre; Pl. Grg. 502a; and see in general Power 2010, esp. 425-34,
475-89, 491-507. Edmonds compares fr. 303, although Alcaeus is there asso-
ciated with Sicily, not Calabria.
A Καλαβρός was someone from Bruttium (the “heel” of the Italian “boot”),
but also by extension, according to Hsch. κ 382 (originally a gloss on this