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- ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the creature that accidentally found the deposits. [3] Ephorus FGrH 70 F59b.
- κ1432Κεστρεῖςmullets… phrase is commonplace in comedy as a metaphor for starvelings: Alexis fr. 256 Kock (now 258 Kassel-Austin, Amipsias fr. 1 Kock (and K.-A.), Antiphanes fr. 138 Kock (136 K.-A.), Archippus fr. 12 Kock (and …
- γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… cites with evident pleasure many riddles from Greek comic playwrights (Alexis, Antiphanes, Diphilus, Eubulus) and elsewhere, and demonstrates the extraordinary literary and intellectual breadth required by this game. The griphos was included as one …