504

Eupolis

fr. 317 K.-A.
άρκτους, έλάφους, ελέφαντας, ϋστριχας, χελώνας
bears, deer, elephants, porcupines, tortoises/turtles
Phot, a 2824
άρκτος- τό θηρίον, συν τω τ. Εϋπολις Χρυσω γένει- ——
arktos (bear): the animal, with the tau. Eupolis in Chrysoun genos:-
Meter A comic dicolon (x D x ith) attested inter alia also at frr. 148 with n.;
250 with n. See Parker 1997. 260-1, who calls this an archilochean.
Discussion Tsantsanoglou 1984. 122; Storey 2003. 269
Citation context Phryn. PSp. 31.18 has άπαρκτίας- μετά τοΰ τ, ούκ άπαρκίας
(“aparktias (north wind): with the tau, not aparkias”), and Theodoridis com-
pared the more complete version of that note preserved at Phot, a 2265
άπαρκτίας- οϋτως χρή λέγειν μετά τοΰ τ και ούχ ώς ένιοι άπαρκίαν- καί γάρ
άρκτον λέγεις. Στράττις εϊρηκεν (fr. 78) (“aparktias (north wind): one ought
to say it thus, with the tau, and not as some people do, aparkias·, for in fact
you say arktos (bear). Stattis uses the word (fr. 78)”) and concluded that Phot,
a 2824 was drawn from Phrynichus as well. Cf.
- [Hdn.] Philet. 314 άρκτος συν τω τ- καί άπαρκτίας άνεμος (“arktos with
the taw, also aparktias, a wind”)
- Et.Gen. AB a 969 άπαρκτίαις- ταϊς άπό τής άρκτου f πνοαΐς- Λυκόφρων
(27)·-(“aparktiais: the f blasts from the arktos: Lycophron (27):-”)
Aelius Dionysius (a 173 ap. Phot, a 2826 = Synag. B a 2127; cf. Hsch. a 5811)
took a different view: άρκτον ούχί άρκον- (Cratin. fr. 144)-τον μέντοι
άνεμον άνευ τοΰ τ, ώς ήμεΐς, άπαρκίαν διά τό εΰφωνον, καί την πνοάν άρκιον-
(A. fr. 127) -(“arktos (bear), not arkos: (Cratin. fr. 144) -. The wind,
however, (should be pronounced) aparkias without the tau, as we do, for the
sake of euphony, and its blast (should be pronounced) arkion: (A. fr. 127)-”).
See further Orth 2009. 279.
Interpretation An asyndetic, wildly mixed, and most likely accidentally
alphabetical list of wild animals, large and small, common and rare, edible
and inedible, fast and slow, warm-blooded and cold-blooded, dangerous and
unthreatening. All are four-legged and—assuming that tortoises rather than
turtles are in question—terrestrial, and larger and rarer animals come in the
first half of the verse, smaller and more common ones in the second half.