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Aristophanes the comic poet was bald, as he himself says in the ''Peace''. He was mocked for making fun of Euripides whilst simultaneously imitating him. Cratinus says: | Aristophanes the comic poet was bald, as he himself says in the ''Peace''. He was mocked for making fun of Euripides whilst simultaneously imitating him. Cratinus says: | ||
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‘Who are you?’ a clever theatregoer might ask. | ‘Who are you?’ a clever theatregoer might ask.<br> | ||
An oversubtle speaker, a maxim-hunter, a Euripidaristophanist. | An oversubtle speaker, a maxim-hunter, a Euripidaristophanist. | ||
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And he himself acknowledges this in ''Women Seizing Tents'': | And he himself acknowledges this in ''Women Seizing Tents'': | ||
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For, he says, I make use of his pithy expressions, | For, he says, I make use of his pithy expressions,<br> | ||
But I produce thoughts less common than his. | But I produce thoughts less common than his. | ||
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Revision as of 16:17, 16 March 2015
M = reading of the whole MS tradition
m = reading of part of the MS tradition
P = reading on a papyrus
m = reading of part of the MS tradition
P = reading on a papyrus
Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ κωμωιδοποιὸς φαλακρὸς ἦν, ὡς αὐτός φησιν Εἰρήνηι Ar. Pax 771. ἐκωμωιδεῖτο δ’ ἐπὶ τῶι σκώπτειν μὲν Εὐριπίδην, μιμεῖσθαι δ’ αὐτόν. Κρατῖνος·
τίς δὲ σύ; κομψός τις ἔροιτο θεατής.
ὑπολεπτολόγος, γνωμιδιώκτης, εὐριπιδαριστοφανίζων. Fr. 342 K.-A.
καὶ αὐτὸς δ’ ἐξομολογεῖται Σκηνὰς καταλαμβανούσαις·
χρῶμαι γὰρ αὐτοῦ, φησί, τοῦ στόματος τῶι στρογγύλωι,
τοὺς νοῦς δ’ ἀγοραίους ἧττον ἢ ’κεῖνος ποιῶ. Fr. 488 K.-A.
Aristophanes the comic poet was bald, as he himself says in the Peace. He was mocked for making fun of Euripides whilst simultaneously imitating him. Cratinus says:
‘Who are you?’ a clever theatregoer might ask.
An oversubtle speaker, a maxim-hunter, a Euripidaristophanist.
And he himself acknowledges this in Women Seizing Tents:
For, he says, I make use of his pithy expressions,
But I produce thoughts less common than his.
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