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Eupolis

of text, as is clear from the fact that although Αμύριος appears to be a legiti-
mate ethnic for Άμυρος, Άμυρεύς does not. For the formation of such ethnics,
see Risch 1957.
πλησιόχωρος is prosaic 5* -c. vocabulary (e.g. Hellanic. FGrH 4 F 25b;
Hdt. 3.89.1; Th. 2.68.9); attested in comedy also at Ar. V. 393, but absent from
elevated poetry.

fr. 424 K.-A. (393 K.)
Σ Dionysius Thrax, Grammatici Graeci III p. 149.27-32
καί έστιν ώς τό πλεϊστον ή σύνθεσις έκ δύο λέξεων, γίνεται δέ καί έκ τριών, ώς
δυσαριστοτόκεια (Λ 18.54), παρά δέ τοϊς κωμικοϊς καί έκ πλειόνων, ώς παρά
Άριστοφάνει σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήται (Nu. 332) οί φιλόσοφοι διά τό άργοί διατελεϊν
καί κομήται είναι, έτι καί σφραγίδας έν τοϊς δακτυλίοις φορεϊν. καί παρ’ Εύπόλιδι
Άμφιπτολεμοπηδησίστρατος
Compounding generally is from two lexical items, but can also be from three, like
dysaristotokeia (“unhappy mother of the noblest son”; II. 18.54), and in the comedians
from even more, as in Aristophanes (Nu. 332) the philosophers are sphragidonux-
argokometai (“seal-ring-fingernail-lazy-longhairs”) because they spend their lives in
idleness and have long hair, and also wear seal-rings on their fingers. And in Eupolis
Amphiptolemopedesistratos (“About-war-leaping-istratos”)

Discussion Meineke 1839 11.569-70; Blaydes 1890. 43; Blaydes 1896. 50;
Edmonds 1957. 364-5; Storey 2003. 375-6; Telo 2007. 642-3
Assignment to known plays Edmonds took About-war-leaping-istratos to
be a name by which Alcibiades was called in Demes, “contrasting him with
Peisistratus”.

Meter lambic trimeter, with the element -πτολεμο- falling neatly between the
points where the penthemimeral and hepthemimeral caesurae would normally
be located:
<x—>-— --o-
Citation context From near the end of a long treatise on prosody by a certain
Porphyrion intended to supplement the work of Herodian; most of the other
references to original texts in the document are to Homer.
Interpretation The two other words cited by Σ Dionysius Thrax are adjec-
tives, but the ending on the one attributed to Eupolis makes it sound like a
mock personal name (cf. Peisistratos, Callistratus, Lysistratus, Hegesistratus
and many others), like frr. 435 Βαρυγέτας (n.); 444 Δαμασικόνδυλον (n.);