Εὔφρων

Euphron

Translated by David Whitehead4 Jun 2004Vetting: high5 revisions

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A comic poet. Amongst his plays are Ugly Girl, Muses, Fellow-Ephebes, Pilgrims; as Athenaeus writes in Deipnosophists.¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Εὔφρων, κωμικός. τῶν δραμάτων αὐτοῦ ἐστιν Αἰσχρά, Μοῦσαι, Συνέφηβοι, Θεωροί· ὡς Ἀθήναιος γράφει ἐν τοῖς Δειπνοσοφισταῖς.

Betacode

*eu)/frwn, kwmiko/s. tw=n drama/twn au)tou= e)stin *ai)sxra/, *mou=sai, *sune/fhboi, *qewroi/: w(s *)aqh/naios gra/fei e)n toi=s *deipnosofistai=s.

New Comedy; mid-C3 BCE. See generally W.G. Arnott in OCD(4) s.v. Titles and fragments: Kassel-Austin, PCG 5.282-292 (Kock 3.317ff).
1Respectively 7.307E [7.79 Kaibel], 8.343B [8.29], 9.377D [9.21], 9.399B [9.59]. For other material see 1.7D-F [1.13] (which provides a dating fix, via King Nikomedes I of Bithynia; cf. alpha 4660), 3.100D [3.57], 9.379C-380C [9.24], 11.503A [11.109]. ↩

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