Incertarum fabularum fragmenta (fr. 425)

191

Άνδροκολωνοκλής at Cratin. fr. 281; Τεισαμενοφαινίππους, Πανου-
ργιππαρχίδας /... / Γερητοθεοδώρους, Διομειαλαζόνας at Ar. Ach. 603, 605;
Δημολογοκλέων at Ar. V 342a-b; Κομηταμυνία at Ar. V. 466; and Κωλακώνυμος
at Ar. V. 592 (cited by Storey). Telo takes the individual in question to be
Demostratus (PAA 319245); see fr. 103 with nn. The second and fourth ele-
ments (“war” and “army”) lend the word an unmistakably martial tone, and
Marx 1928 on Plaut. Rudens 98-9 argues that the use of epic πτολεμ- (nowhere
else in comedy except in the divine name Τριπτόλεμος; the only other example
of πτ- for π- in comedy is Anaxandr. fr. 45 πτόλιν) rather than common πόλεμ-
adds an air of gravity. Metrical considerations obviously also play a role. But
why the individual or object in question is “leaping about” is in any case
obscure; perhaps in joy (a warmonger/general?), or in the course of executing
a pyrriche (“war-dance”; see fr. 18 n.), or from one conflict to another, or as
way of avoiding service (as one of the AstrateutoiP). For similarly extravagant
comic coinages, e.g. fr. 190 ταγηνοκνισοθήρας (noted by Storey); Ar. Eq. 247
ταραξιππόστρατον; V. 220 άρχαιομελισιδωνοφρυνιχήρατα, 505 όρθροφοιτο-
συκοφαντοδικοταλαιπώρων, 1357 κυμινοπριστοκαρδαμογλύφον; Αν. 491 τορ-
νευτολυρασπιδοπηγοί; Lys. 457-8 ώ σπερμαγοραιολεκιθολαχανοπώλιδες, /
ώ σκοροδοπανδοκευτριαρτοπώλιδες; Ec. 1169-75 (perhaps the longest word
in Greek literature); Ephipp. fr. 14.3 Βρυσωνοθρασυμαχειοληψικερμάτων;
additional examples in van Leeuwen 1902 on Ar. Av. 491; Plaut. Per. 702-5
Vaniloquidorus Virginesvendonides /Nugiepiloquides Argentumexterebronides /
Tedigniloquides Nuncaesexpalponides / Quodsemelarripides Numquameripides.

fr. 425 K.-A. (395 K.)
Phot, a 1649 = Suda a 2058
άναρρύει· άντί τοΰ θύει καί σφάττει. Εϋπολις. καί ή θυσία δέ έπανάρρυσις
ονομάζεται
he draws back: in place of “he sacrifices” and “he slaughters”. Eupolis. The term
“drawing backward” is also used to refer to a sacrifice

Meter Most easily understood as iambic trimeter, e. g.
<X —ο — X—o —> o —o —
Citation context Eustathius p. 250.17 = 1.381.17-18 τό δέ άναρύειν απλώς
αντί τού θύειν ε’ίληπται κατά Παυσανίαν, δθεν φησί καί ή θυσία άνάρυσις
(largely repeated at ρ. 1159.56 = IV.241.1-2, but with the spellings άναρρύειν
and άνάρρυσις) explicitly assigns very similar material to Pausanias (= a