Incertarum fabularum fragmenta (fr. 329)

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up out of bed” at e. g. Od. 20.124; Hes. Op. 577; A. Eu. 124; Cratin. fr. 55; Ar. V.
137; X. Cyr. 5.3.44), although the idea that one gets up because one has woken
up is often implicit in it; contrast εξεγείρω (1 n.).
ότιή is attested only in late 5th-/early 4th-century comedy (e. g. Hermipp.
fr. 63.11; Ar. Eq. 34; V. 786; Ale. Com. fr. 10.1) and satyr play (A. fr. 281a.9; E.
Cyc. 643; restored at Pl. Phlb. 58a, but otherwise absent from prose) and is
presumably a short-lived colloquialism. Cf. τιή; Willi 2003. 245.
ώμόυπνον As Meineke saw, the idea is apparently that the individual
in question has been snatched from sleep (or from a sleep-like state such as
death) before he or she is ready, like a piece of meat pulled off the fire too
soon (“raw”); cf. ώμόδροπος (“plucked unripe”; A. Th. 333); ώμόγραυς (“old
before her time”; Men. fr. 573); ώμογέρων (Phryn. PS p. 114.5-6 ό προ τού
προσήκοντος χρόνου γηράσας; not attested in this sense in the classical pe-
riod); ώμαλθής (“scarred over too early”, i. e. before healed; Hsch. ω 178). The
adjective is not attested again until Philostr. VA 8.31.3 αναπήδησαν ώμόυπνον,
where it is presumably used as a learned Atticism, and is then found a number
of times in the Byzantine period (e. g. Constantin.Man. Brev.Chron. 5222 καί
βλέφαρον ώμόυπνον σπών ούκ είς κόρον ϋπνου).

fr. 329 Κ.-Α. (306 Κ.)
είδες χορηγόν πώποτε ρυπαρώτερον
τοϋδε;
1 είδες Ρο11.Α: ήδη Poll.FS 2 τοΰδε Ρο11.Α : τούτο δέ Poll.5: τούτω δέ Poll/: τοΰδ’
<είδες> Aldine
Did you ever see a filthier choregos
than this man?

Poll. 3.115
Πλάτων δ’ έν Παρμενίδη (130c?) καί ρυπαρόν εϊρηκεν, Εϋπολις δέ·-
And Plato in Parmenides (130c?) also uses the term rhuparos, and Eupolis (says):-

Meter lambic trimeter
—<o— x—x—>

Discussion Runkel 1829. 175; Cobet 1858. 31